As a server hoster and administrator I can say this: Github LFS is way too overpriced for the little gain it has. A single data pack costs $5/month and it gives 50GB space and 50GB traffic for one month, which isn't a lot because any amount of that bandwidth is used up by people that aren't actually you - you just get charged for it.
To put it into perspective, I currently host a cluster of 8 servers and pay a total of about $160 for it, which gives me access to a total of 100 TB disk space and a monthly traffic soft limit of 400 Tebibyte - after I hit that soft limit the servers just work with slightly less bandwidth. For the $5 that Github charges I could self-host the LFS files and still have 3 TB more disk space plus an extra of 12.5 Tebibyte traffic.
It's just purely made for Github to get more revenue than the effort put into it.
INSTALL would incorrectly copy /data instead of the content of /data, resulting in the plugin not being able to load effects and default images.
PACKAGE was running from the wrong directory, resulting in an extra ".." directory being added, which was invisible for some decompression software.
- Improved cmake script to allow packaging from within the IDE.
- Fixed a crash/freeze caused by not closing the rendering context.
Blur Filter:
- Reduced blur CPU usage and GPU usage.
- Fixed LOD being calculated causing slower rendering.
- Fixed an issue where the effect would randomly not load depending on the actions before starting obs.
- Improved rendering speed via pre-calculated Blur Kernel for those filters supporting it.
- Added 'Color Format' option to improve de-noise type blur for cameras.
- Added 'Bilateral Blur', a de-noise type blur which can be used to reduce low frequency noise.
- Changed default blur size to 5 pixels.
- Improved effect loading to only compile the shader once instead of every time.
Transform Filter:
- Added shearing support allowing for more weird shapes to be rendered.
- Fixed camera aspect ratio when source width is smaller than source height.
- Fixed scaling being affected by rotation.
- Fixed an issue with the mesh reconstruction logic causing invisible sources.
Displace Filter:
The graphics subsystem in OBS is freeing memory it didn't allocate, resulting in stack/heap corruption and other kinds of messy situations. The official "fix" for this is to use bmalloc, but then you lose any kind of ability to re-use the same buffer for multiple vertex buffers or update on the fly without adjusting code that is possibly outside of your control (such as in libraries).
This works around the issues by "patching" the gs_vertexbuffer object to no longer hold a reference to the gs_vb_data object. Currently only D3D11 is supported for this kind of hack and it might break in a future obs-studio release.
PR fixing this Issue: https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/pull/993
End goal of this is to be an anisotropic filtering purely on the GPU without any actual mipmaps in the graphics subsystem. The basic idea behind it is that we can create all possible mipmaps in a twice as big texture as the original and then can efficiently render it no matter the GPU features as it will only consume one sampler.
The texture that it outputs will have both horizontal, vertical and full mipmaps in it. Horizontal mipmaps reduce Width, Vertical mipmaps reduce Height and full mipmaps reduce both. This means that LoD levels are both possible in the X and Y direction, allowing for much greater precision mipmapping on all GPUs.
This is a temporary solution until we can directly copy updated textures to a mipmap level.
This option allows applying the blur to other color formats such as YUV. Bilateral Blur benefits the most from this, resulting in smoother images at lower kernel sizes.
* Added a 'Bilateral' de-noising blur, currently very resource hungry. It also has two extra sliders called 'Smoothing' and 'Sharpness', the former controls how smooth the output is
* Updated effect loading to be global instead of per instance.
* Changed default blur size to 5px.
* Simplified render loop (see previous effect commit).
An unknown issue with the OBS effect parser causes it to generate nothing when more than two techniques are in the same file. This works around the issue, but doesn't actually fix it.
This is not very optimized at the moment and will take quite a bit of GPU time. Will have to spend some time later to optimize it and perhaps add directional blur ("Motion Blur" to it).
Michael Fabian 'Xaymar' Dirks