OBS Studio is software designed for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content, efficiently. It is the re-write of the widely used Open Broadcaster Software, to allow even more features and multi-platform support. OBS Studio supports multiple sources, including media files, games, web pages, application windows, webcams, your desktop, microphone and more.
OBS Studio Features:
- High performance real time video/audio capturing and mixing, with unlimited scenes you can switch between seamlessly via custom transitions.
- Live streaming to Twitch, YouTube, Periscope, GoodGame, DailyMotion, Hitbox, VK and any other RTMP server
- Filters for video sources such as image masking, color correction, chroma/color keying, and more.
- x264, H.264 and AAC for your live streams and video recordings
- Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV) and NVIDIA NVENC support
- Intuitive audio mixer with per-source filters such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain. Take full control with VST plugin support.
- GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming
- Unlimited number of scenes and sources
- Number of different and customizable transitions for when you switch between scenes
- Hotkeys for almost any action such as start or stop your stream or recording, push-to-talk, fast mute of any audio source, show or hide any video source, switch between scenes,and much more
- Live preview of any changes on your scenes and sources using Studio Mode before pushing them to your stream where your viewers will see those changes
- DirectShow capture device support (webcams, capture cards, etc)
- Powerful and easy to use configuration options. Add new Sources, duplicate existing ones, and adjust their properties effortlessly.
- Streamlined Settings panel for quickly configuring your broadcasts and recordings. Switch between different profiles with ease.
- Light and dark themes available to fit your environment.
- …and many other features. For free. At all.
OBS Studio 22.0.1 hotfix:
- Fixed a bug where the browser source wouldn"t read local files properly
v22.0 general changes:
Major improvements to the browser source
- Added hardware acceleration to the browser source on Windows for greatly improved performance, reduced resources, and allowing advanced rendering functionality such as WebGL. This reduces CPU usage, reduces RAM usage, and even reduces GPU usage. This option is enabled by default; it can be disabled in the advanced section of settings if needed if there are any unexpected issues.
- Updated to Chromium version 68
- Refactored the entire plugin and pruned approximately 13,000 lines of code (very satisfying for me in particular)
- The browser source now has accurate frame synchronization on Windows
- Fixed all memory leaks of the browser source
- Added the ability to use web browsers as widgets (which isn"t currently exposed much, but will allow a lot more custom functionality later)
Added source grouping, allowing the ability to group multiple sources together as a single transformable group
- To add a group, you can either select a few sources and then right-click and choose "Group Selected Items", or you can create an empty group in the Add menu
- You can seamlessly drag and drop items in and out of groups
- You can ungroup a group without affecting the group in other scenes by right-clicking the group and choosing "Ungroup"
- Groups show their list of sources as a sub-list within the main scene list, which can be collapsed and hidden if desired
- Groups can be referenced (shared) between multiple scenes like any other source
- Groups can have their own effect filters applied to them
Added the ability to set a custom background color to items within the source list to color-code them for improved organization
- To set the item"s background color, right-click the source item within the source list, and go to "Set Color"
- You can use a preset selection of colors within the menu, you can choose a custom color, or you can reset it to default
- Added a "Vertical Layout" option to the mixer"s right-click context menu to make the mixer display vertically rather than horizontally (#1257)
- The multiview can now be configured to show up to 24 scenes at once in general settings if desired (#1260)
- Added an option to audio settings to allow the user to change the audio meter type: "Sample Peak" and "True Peak" (#1189)
- Added secure streaming (RTMPS) support for services that support it, such as Facebook (#1360)
- It is now possible to use more than one Intel QSV encoder at once (#1341)
- It is now possible to use alt-cropping even on sources that are set to a bounding box transform. This fixes the issue where, for example, alt-cropping would not work after you pressed Ctrl-F on a source. Note that in that case, the rectangle"s size will not change, but the contents will realign to the rectangle. (01ac60c)
- Windowed projectors are now saved and loaded on shutdown/startup (#1195)
- Audio sources within the mixer now always displayed alphabetically (#1242)
- Significantly reduced GPU usage when the program is idle (I.E. when the program is not streaming or recording) [full release notes]
Download 32-bit: OBS Studio 22.0.1 | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download 64-bit: OBS Studio 22.0.1 | Portable
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