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OBS Studio provides existent-fourth dimension capture, encoding, and broadcasting for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and many other providers. Loftier 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.

Features:

  • Loftier performance existent fourth dimension video/sound 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 equally image masking, color correction, chroma/colour 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 racket gate, dissonance suppression, and gain. Take full control with VST plugin back up.
  • GPU-based game capture for loftier performance game streaming
  • Unlimited number of scenes and sources
  • Number of different and customizable transitions for when y'all switch betwixt scenes
  • Hotkeys for almost whatever action such as kickoff or stop your stream or recording, push-to-talk, fast mute of whatsoever audio source, show or hibernate any video source, switch between scenes,and much more
  • Alive preview of whatever 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 back up (webcams, capture cards, etc)
  • Powerful and easy to use configuration options. Add new Sources, indistinguishable existing ones, and adjust their backdrop effortlessly.
  • Streamlined Settings panel for quickly configuring your broadcasts and recordings. Switch between different profiles with ease.
  • Light and dark themes bachelor to fit your environment.
  • …and many other features. For gratuitous. At all.

What'south New:

New Features and Additions

  • Added Undo/Redo [Programatic/Jim]
  • Added a new capture method for Display Capture, allowing the ability to capture displays cantankerous-GPU. This fixes the black screen issues on laptops in item (Requires Windows x, 1903 or newer) [jpark37]
  • For users who have previously switched the "default" GPU to the integrated GPU, it is recommended to remove the override and instead apply the new toggle in the Brandish Capture source
  • Added a missing files warning when loading scene collections [VodBox]
  • Also allows for bulk-update when folders take been moved (such as between computers)
  • Third party plugins will need to add support for this capability manually
  • Added source visibility transitions, which allow yous to set a transition for a source when showing or hiding it [exeldro]
  • Added service integration and browser dock back up to macOS and Linux [tbodt, cg2121]
  • Added support for Wayland on Linux. This includes a new PipeWire capture source when using Wayland (for Ubuntu users, 20.10 or newer is required for PipeWire capture) [GeorgeStavracas]
  • (Windows just) Added support for NVIDIA Noise Removal in the Noise Suppression filter (requires the NVIDIA Audio Furnishings SDK and a uniform GPU) [pkviet]
  • Added a Track Matte mode to stinger transitions, which supports a scene mask to display parts of the previous & current scene at the aforementioned time [Palakis]
  • Added support for SRGB texture formats, applying color operations in linear space [jpark37]

Improvements/Tweaks

  • When saving a file, the saved file path will be shown in the status bar [cg2121]
  • Media Sources & Stingers now support hardware decoding on macOS [eric]
  • Added an interact button to the source toolbar for the browser source [cg2121]
  • You can now refresh a browser dock in the right-click context menu [WizardCM]
  • Re-enabled Python scripting support on macOS past adding back up for Python 3.8 and above [PatTheMav]
  • Added presets for 1080p and 4K in the macOS Video Capture Device source [vangdfang]
  • Added a virtual camera toggle to the organisation tray menu [cg2121]
  • Automated rotation on Video Capture Devices can at present be manually disabled [drewler]
  • Added launch parameter to disable high-DPI scaling (--disable-high-dpi-scaling) [Lordmau5]
  • Added Edit Script button to the script dialog [exeldro]
  • Added motorcar reset option to v4l2 source to handle dropouts with sure devices [esden]
  • Added frontend API functions for the virtual camera, value of the t-bar, and to reset video [cg2121, cpyarger, tt2468]
  • Improved startup fourth dimension on Windows by not attempting to load plugin dependencies as OBS plugins [R1CH]
  • Improved operation when capturing OpenGL games with Game Capture on Windows [jpark37]
  • The transitions card will now be disabled when currently in the center of a transition [cg2121]

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue when importing a Scene Drove that has special characters, causing the import to silently fail [RytoEX]
  • Fixed a bug where DX12 games on Windows would capture game frames out-of-lodge [jpark37]
  • Fixed an result where Media Source wouldn't reconnect to remote streams [MegLi619]
  • Stock-still an outcome that would cause silent sound across all sources when a media source reaches max buffering [marcan]
  • Fixed VirtualCam crashing clients when using a custom placeholder paradigm [R1CH]
  • Stock-still VST paths on Linux [tytan652]
  • Fixed an issue with on Loftier-DPI displays where the Canvas Resolution would be set up to the scaled resolution in Settings and Auto-Config [Nirusu]
  • Fixed an outcome where Video Settings would not be saved when using "Resize output (source size)" [WizardCM]
  • Stock-still a crash with Window Capture on Windows that could occur if the window was destroyed [jpark37]
  • Fixed an issue where resizing sources within groups would non correctly resize the group [WizardCM]
  • Fixed an issue where drag and drop would require ignore uppercase file extensions [bershanskiy]
  • Stock-still an issue with primal modifiers in the Collaborate dialog for browser sources on Windows [Scrxtchy]
  • Fixed a crash on macOS when updating, caused past VirtualCam signature changes [PatTheMav]
  • Fixed a hang when attempting to reconnect to an RTMP server while streaming [Thulinma]
  • Fixed a crash that would happen on Linux when sound backends are disabled [Chiitoo]
  • Fixed bframes=0 not working with QSV encoder [Lin]
  • Fixed a potential deadlock when dragging sources to reorder [wangshaohui1314]
  • Fixed Window Capture on Windows beingness stuck on the last frame when a window no longer exists [wangshaohui1314]
  • Fixed a crash related to changing the "Capture Cursor" [jpark37]
  • Fixed a scene collections not importing correctly from other operating systems [RtoEX]
  • Fixed a pocket-sized performance problems with the decklink output [cg2121]