OBS Studio 30.1 RC1
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.
OBS Studio 30.1 RC1 changes:
- Fixed a crash in Beta 1-3 when streaming with SRT [pkviet/RytoEX]
- Fixed an issue in Beta 1-3 where settings would not save correctly under certain circumstances when changing services [pkviet/RytoEX]
- Fixed an issue in Beta 1-3 where the Source Toolbar would not update after deleting a scene item [cg2121]
- Fixed an issue in Beta 1-3 on macOS with not being able to select an appropriate frame rate on some camera/capture devices [PatTheMav]
- Fixed an issue with Beta 3 not being published on Flathub [tytan652]
30.1 New Features
- Enabled HDR for HEVC over RTMP [nquah]
- Reworked the Image Slideshow source [Lain-B]
- The reworked Image Slideshow source loads files asynchronously and fixes an issue where the slideshow would loop before showing all images. To change existing Image Slideshow sources to the new version, you must recreate them. Existing Image Slideshow sources will continue functioning as before.
- Added Capture Audio option to window/game capture on Windows [derrod]
- Added Premultiplied Alpha option for game capture on Windows [jpark37]
- Added option for automatic cropping to bounding box [derrod]
- Added maxRGB tonemapper for SDR in HDR Tone Mapping filter [jpark37]
- Added GPU rescaling options for streaming and recording outputs [derrod]
- Added channel selection for CoreAudio input devices [PatTheMav]
- Added Capture Card Device source type on macOS [PatTheMav]
- Enabled multi-track audio support for mpegts [pkviet]
- Added AV1 support for VA-API [nowrep]
- Added AV1 support for WebRTC/WHIP output [Sean-Der]
- Added Video Capture Device (PipeWire) source type [GeorgesStavracas]
30.1 Changes
- Added HDR support for the Elgato HD60 X Rev.2 [FBirth]
- Added theme data search paths [derrod]
- Added Lua script location to search path for Lua native libraries [Smartkin]
- Added Python 3.11 support for macOS [PatTheMav]
- Updated obs-websocket to version 5.4.0 [tt2468]
- Improved simple mode replay buffer settings [gxalpha]
- Switched to bigger units in the UI for high bitrate/large recordings [derrod]
- Disabled Paste Transform on locked scene items [cg2121]
- Disabled Edit Transform if scene item is locked [cg2121]
- Removed Windows 7 and Ubuntu 20.04 NVENC fallbacks [derrod]
- PCM audio in (fragmented) MP4/MOV is now supported [derrod]