StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 77

[Xaymar]

⚠ Preview Release not for Production! ⚠

This release is meant for testing in isolated conditions and early adopters only, and should never be used in production. If you use one of these releases, all promises of support, warranty, functionality, and similar are immediately void and if things break you are on your own. The latest production ready release can be found here.

Please read the Installation Guide and System Requirements!

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Overview of Changes

New Release process: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release!

The old two stage system didn't work out quite as I'd have hoped: It didn't communicate the dangers of Testing well, and did not differentiate between different stability levels. To solve this I've adopted a new release process now available in StreamFX, which follows the usual development cycle of Software itself: Alpha -> Beta -> Candidate -> Release. The further right you go in that graph, the more stable software is supposed to be, at the cost of new features and changes. The further left you go, the more up-to-date things will be, but you sacrifice stability and safety.

Avid DNxHR Encoder (via FFmpeg) by @IceStormNG

A new contender for the visually lossless intermediate codec arrives: Avid DNxHR! Thanks to work done by @IceStormNG, it is now possible to use this encoder without configuration trickery and directly configure it with a proper user interface. As this encoder is based on the real codec specification, it may perform better than the Apple ProRes encoder while being way more compatible with video editing software.

ARM64 Support on MacOS

As OBS Studio 28.0 and beyond support ARM64 and x86-64 now, StreamFX now also supports this architecture natively. Note that you may need at least MacOS 11.0 for the ARM64 binaries to load correctly.

Detailed Changelog

0.12.0a77

• New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in New Crowdin updates #817
• Improve GitHub integration by @Xaymar in Improve GitHub integration #841
• project: Fix incorrect tabs in YAML by @Xaymar in project: Fix incorrect tabs in YAML #842
• Improve metadata generation by @Xaymar in Improve metadata generation  #837
• cmake: Add support for Qt6 by @Xaymar in cmake: Add support for Qt6 #866
• New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in New Crowdin updates #832
• Further improve CI and Github integration by @Xaymar in Further improve CI and Github integration #843
• ci: Remove Code Signing with self-signed certificate by @Xaymar in ci: Remove Code Signing with self-signed certificate #873
• Fix compilation errors with Debug and/or Profiling by @Xaymar in Fix compilation errors with Debug and/or Profiling #876
• Deduplicate CI build pipeline by @Xaymar in Deduplicate CI build pipeline #874
• Remove Auto-Dependency System by @Xaymar in Remove Auto-Dependency System #870
• Working on source code [Refactor] by @GermanAizek in Working on source code [Refactor] #836
• obs/gs/effect: Revert Working on source code [Refactor] #836 by @Xaymar in obs/gs/effect: Revert #836 #880
• Update libOBS to 28.0.0-rc1 by @Xaymar in Update libOBS to 28.0.0-rc1 #878

0.12.0a45

• Improve CMake build script(s) by @Xaymar in Improve CMake build script(s) #813
• ci: Add GCC back to the build by @Xaymar in ci: Add GCC back to the build #820
• Add ClangCL, and update Windows SDK requirements by @Xaymar in Add ClangCL, and update Windows SDK requirements #821
• ci: Allow failures for experimental CI tests by @Xaymar in ci: Allow failures for experimental CI tests #824
• ci: Use specific LLVM/Clang versions by @Xaymar in ci: Use specific LLVM/Clang versions #825
• project: Add support for multi stage release cycles by @Xaymar in project: Add support for multi stage release cycles #823

0.12.0a1

• New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in New Crowdin updates #778
• ffmpeg-encoder/dnxhr: Added Avid DNxHR Encoder based on FFmpeg by @IceStormNG in ffmpeg-encoder/dnxhr: Added Avid DNxHR Encoder based on FFmpeg #784
• New Crowdin updates by @Xaymar in New Crowdin updates #786
• Refactor C++ wrappers for libOBS by @Xaymar in Refactor C++ wrappers for libOBS #806

System Requirements

		Windows	Ubuntu, Debian, ...	MacOS
OS	Minimum	Windows 10 21H2 (or newer)	Ubuntu 20.04 (or newer), (or equivalent Distro)	MacOS 10.15 (or newer)
	Recommended	Windows 10 21H2 (or newer), Windows 11 (or newer)	Ubuntu 22.04 (or newer), or equivalent Distro	MacOS 12 (or newer)
CPU	Minimum	Any x86-64-v2 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series
				Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series
	Recommended	Any x86-64-v2 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series
				Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series
Memory (RAM)	Minimum	4 GiB (free)
	Recommended	8 GiB (free)	6 GiB (free)
Video (GPU)	Minimum	DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total)
	Recommended	DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total)
Disk Space	Minimum	~50 MiB (free)
	Recommended	~50 MiB (free)
OBS Version	Minimum	28.0.0-rc1
	Recommended	28.0.0-rc1 or Latest
Other		Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022	Qt for obs-studio FFmpeg for obs-studio

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This discussion was created from the release StreamFX 0.12.0 Alpha 77.

[LuminairPrime]

Congrats for the update to the new Qt and support for OBS 28 RC!

[syropian]

Great to see native M1 support! Unfortunately the plugin does not seem to show up in the latest OBS 28 RC (RC2 at time of writing). There were no installation errors, but no sign of it anywhere in OBS either. I realize this is an alpha, so maybe this is known/expected 😄

[Xaymar]

#883