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, Mixer, 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.
27.2.1 Hotfix Changes:
- Fixed an issue that triggered a full system freeze for some users. Made a legendary workaround to some sort of driver/kernel bug which was triggered by the browser source (I am really proud of this) [Jim]
- Improved performance of the updated Chromium build of browser source (I am also really proud of this) [Jim]
- Fixed an issue where some users with certain older Windows versions would not be able to stream at a very high bitrate [R1CH]
- Fixed an issue where some cameras wouldn’t decode correctly on Linux [kkartaltepe]
- Fixed an issue where common in-program shortcuts stopped working sometimes (such as Ctrl-F to make a source fit to screen) [gxalpha/WizardCM]
- Fixed a bug on Windows 8.1 where desktop audio capture stopped working [WizardCM]
- Fixed SRT and RIST from crashing OBS when a URL isn’t set or when disabling a Media source with a RIST URL [pkv]
- Fixed a memory leak in PipeWire capture on Linux [fzwoch]
- Fixed an issue where the resize grip would break if you dragged it all the way to the top in the filters window [WizardCM]
- Updated AOM/SVT encoders again because there seems to be some new good changes [Jim]
- Hiding OBS from capture is now logged [WizardCM]
- Fixed an issue on macOS where FFmpeg dependency filenames were unnecessarily complex, breaking some third party plugins [PatTheMav]
- Fixed browser plugin not loading if OBS launched from certain paths on macOS [derrod]
Download 64-bit: OBS Studio 27.2.1 | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download 32-bit: OBS Studio 27.2.1 | Portable
View: OBS Studio Homepage | Other Operating Systems