OBS Studio 31.0.1

OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster) is a free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. It features high-performance real-time video/audio capturing and mixing with unlimited scenes you can switch seamlessly via custom transitions. Filters for video sources are available, including image masking, color correction, chroma/color keying, an intuitive audio mixer with filter functions such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain can improve the quality.

OBS Studio is equipped with a powerful API, enabling plugins and scripts to provide further customization and functionality specific to your needs. Utilize native plugins for high performance integrations or scripts written with Lua or Python that interface with existing sources. Work with developers in the streaming community to get the features you need with endless possibilities.

Open Broadcaster supports all your favorite streaming platforms and more.

OBS Studio Features:

• High performance real time video/audio capturing and mixing. Create scenes made up of multiple sources including window captures, images, text, browser windows, webcams, capture cards and more.
• Set up an unlimited number of scenes you can switch between seamlessly via custom transitions.
• Intuitive audio mixer with per-source filters such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain. Take full control with VST plugin support.
• Powerful and easy to use configuration options. Add new Sources, duplicate existing ones, and adjust their properties effortlessly.
• Streamlined Settings panel gives you access to a wide array of configuration options to tweak every aspect of your broadcast or recording.
• Modular ‘Dock’ UI allows you to rearrange the layout exactly as you like. You can even pop out each individual Dock to its own window.

Create Professional Productions

• Choose from a number of different and customizable transitions for when you switch between your scenes or add your own stinger video files.
• Set hotkeys for nearly every sort of action, such as switching between scenes, starting/stopping streams or recordings, muting audio sources, push to talk, and more.
• Studio Mode lets you preview your scenes and sources before pushing them live. Adjust your scenes and sources or create new ones and ensure they’re perfect before your viewers ever see them.
• Get a high level view of your production using the Multiview. Monitor 8 different scenes and easily cue or transition to any of them with merely a single or double click.

OBS software distributed under the GPLv2 license, developed by volunteer contributors around the world in their free time. The summary of the license is that OBS is free for anyone to use, for any reason. OBS has no watermarks or other limitations and can be used commercially with no restrictions.

Changes in OBS Studio 31.0.1:

• Fixed a crash on macOS caused by hand gesture reactions [gxalpha]
• Fixed a crash caused by malformed scene collection files [PatTheMav]
• Fixed a possible crash on Linux when initializing PipeWire screen sharing [tytan652]
• Fixed a possible deadlock and freeze on macOS while exiting OBS [izwb003]
• Fixed an issue with inhibiting screensaver on Linux [tytan652]
• Fixed an issue where migrated NVIDIA Audio Effects filters would not retain their position in the filter order [pkviet]
• Fixed an issue where Scene Collections could have an incorrect base resolution [derrod]
• Fixed an issue on Linux with Portable Mode causing the config directory to be in the wrong location [Penwy]
• Fixed an issue where an Image Slideshow Source set to Random Playback Mode would stop on the last image [derrod]
• Fixed a missing string for an NVENC error message [derrod]
• Changed NVENC to not permit invalid custom options [derrod]

Changes in OBS Studio 31.0.0:

New Features

• Added NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur [pkviet]
• Added preview scrollbars and zoom/scale indicator [cg2121/Warchamp7]
• Added v210 format support for AJA device capture [paulh-aja]
• Added Amazon IVS service integration [palana]
• Added QSV AV1 Screen Content Coding [thyintel]
• Enabled first-party YouTube Chat features [msuman-google]

Changes

• Updated the browser source/docks CEF (Chromium) to version 127 (6533) on all platforms [reitowo/WizardCM/PatTheMav/tytan652/pkviet/kkartaltepe/Lain-B]
• Changed scene items to use relative coordinates [derrod]
  • Existing scene collections will be automatically converted to use relative coordinates if the scene collection has a known output resolution set.
• Split NVIDIA Audio Effects from Noise Suppression [pkviet]
  • Existing filters will be automatically migrated.
• Changed the Image Slideshow’s Playback Mode property from radio buttons to a dropdown [derrod]
• Disabled the (currently unsupported) built-in Automatic Scene Switcher when using Wayland on Linux [tytan652]
• Improved error messages for macOS Virtual Camera [jcm93]
• Changed Display and Window capture on Windows to not capture the first found display or window [Lain-B]
• Changed display and window capture on Linux to not capture implicitly [Lain-B]
• Added a warning to Window Capture when trying to capture WinUI 3 applications with BitBlt [qhy040404]
• Refactored the NVENC implementation with various improvements [derrod]
  • SDK 12.2 features, such as split encoding, are now supported.
  • Additional features from old SDKs are supported:
    • B-Frames as reference
    • Target Quality VBR mode (CQVBR)
  • A custom options field has been added to allow setting more options that don’t warrant their own UI elements.
• Improved screensaver inhibit functions on Linux in Flatpak
• Changed scripts to correctly pass settings to modified callbacks on reload [Penwy]
• Removed legacy QSV code for old devices (Haswell or older) [RytoEX]
• Removed legacy QSV code for Windows 7 [RytoEX]
• Removed default desktop audio device on macOS 13+ [jcm93]
• Removed NVIDIA Kepler GPU support for NVENC [derrod]
• Removed FTL support [derrod]
• Removed legacy migrations from OBS Studio 28.1 and earlier [derrod]
  • If updating from these older versions, you may wish to update to OBS Studio 30.2 first, and then update to OBS Studio 31.
• Removed support for Ubuntu 22.04 [derrod]
• Removed legacy YouTube chat [gxalpha]
• Blocked TikTok Virtual Camera from loading in OBS due to known issues [notr1ch]
• Application settings have been split into “app” configuration and “user” configuration, rather than storing everything in global.ini [PatTheMav]

Homepage – https://obsproject.com/

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 10 and 11.
• macOS 10.15
• Ubuntu 20.04 and newer

Size: 149 MB

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