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OBS Studio 30.0 Released With Intel QSV AV1 On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output

Phoronix - Sun, 11/12/2023 - 08:32
OBS Studio 30.0 was released as stable this evening as the latest version of this cross-platform software that is popular for screen-casting and widely-used by game streamers...

Linux's Turbostat Adds Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Support, Table-Based Feature Enumeration

Phoronix - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 21:59
The Intel-developed Turbostat Linux CLI utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics is seeing a number of feature updates for Linux 6.7 as well as new hardware support...

Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 20:04
One of the great aspects of Intel integrated and discrete graphics is the broad support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). Intel "Gen12" graphics back to Tigerlake can handle SR-IOV when there aren't any firmware woes or other issues at play. There is SR-IOV support currently with the i915 kernel driver but Intel engineers are working to architect optimal SR-IOV integration into their forthcoming Xe DRM kernel driver...

FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode

Phoronix - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 19:35
While it was supposed to ship back in H1'2023, FFmpeg 6.1 finally released last night as the newest feature update to this widely-used multimedia library...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland By Default, Initial Support For HDR-Capable Games

Phoronix - Sat, 11/11/2023 - 19:24
It's been an exciting week in the KDE space as along with releasing Plasma 6.0 Alpha, they have also committed to shipping Plasma 6.0 with the Wayland session being enabled by default...

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