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 21.1 changelog:
- Updated the Browser source to Chromium 63. This includes many important and critical updates to the Browser backend.
- The new Chromium build for the browser source now supports APNG (animated PNG) image files.
- Fixed a few bugs and a potential crash on shutdown with the browser source, with more fixes and improvements to come in coming updates.
- Fixed a bug where the bit icons in certain donation alerts didn't load properly (fixed with the Chromium update for the browser source).
- Dockable windows can now be nested.
- Updated the program to use the latest Microsoft development toolchain (Visual Studio 2017) for the Windows version.
- Changed log file uploading to hastebin (for now) instead of anonymous github gists due to github removing anonymous gist support.
- Fixed an issue where the AMD encoder wouldn't show up for some people since 21.0.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where you could import a scene collection with an already-existing name.
- Fixed an issue where a spontaneous rare audio glitch could happen when encoding audio on Windows. This was caused by a Microsoft audio encoder library which was used by default on Windows at bitrates between 96 and 192 kilobits per second; this library has now been replaced.
- Fixed a potential crash on startup.
- Fixed a few scripting-related crashes.
- Fixed a bug where setting a blank replay buffer prefix would reset to the default prefix when the program was restarted.
- Fixed a bug where the slideshow source would get stuck on the last image is the slideshow image list was cleared.
- Selection rectangles are no longer drawn for audio-only sources.
Download: OBS Studio 21.1 | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
View: OBS Studio Homepage | Other Operating Systems
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