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The popular video recording and streaming app, OBS Studio, has gained support for AV1 encoding on Nvidia RTX 4000 graphics cards. Alongside that, a Windows 11 22H2 issue has also been fixed.
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Google Chrome 106 is landing in the later hours of today. It packs a few new functionalities, experimental capabilities locked behind flags, and also some deprecations for features with low usage.
Details regarding the architecture and feature-set of AMD's RDNA 2 integrated graphics on the Ryzen 7000 I/O dies are out. The new IGPs finally bring encoding on AMD integrated graphics, and more.
Microsoft has revealed a new Video Encode API for DirectX 12, allowing developers to take advantage of GPU acceleration to encode H264 and HEVC content. The feature is native in Windows 11 too.
Intel's new graphics driver version 30.0.100.9955 adds support for DX12 video encoding for H.264 and H.265 on Windows 11. Aside from that, it fixes plenty of gaming-related and general bugs too.
Vimeo has announced support for AVIF images which offer comparable quality while lowering file size. This will improve page load times and bandwidth consumption on browsers which support it.
A new version of Microsoft's Azure Media Player has been made available. Version 2.0 brings a new skin, more plug-ins, a playback speed indicator, as well as accessibility improvements.
