As always, we’re thankful to our dedicated community of developers, testers, and support volunteers who help make this project possible.
If you’d like to support the project, you can find us on both Patreon and Open Collective.
A screenshot of the new OBS Studio add source dialog. The dialog shows a list of source types in the left sidebar, and thumbnails for all existing sources of the selected type in the right pane.
Next release we're aiming to update the workflow for adding sources by replacing the popup menu with a new window, which includes previews.
We are looking for more users to test this update and provide us feedback.
Visit our Discord to try it out and share your thoughts early!
A screenshot of the new OBS Studio audio mixer. It showcases the new labels above each volume meter indicating their grouping or status. The labels from left to right denote Pinned, Active, Hidden, Unassigned, Preview, and Inactive. A popup on the right shows the options menu list. Each label also has a different visual appearance featuring different background colors for each category.
New Additions
- Pinning sources
- Toggle of hidden sources
- Toggle showing inactive sources
- Previewed sources in Studio Mode
This rewrite also means future updates are easier. Support for sorting the mixer is planned.
A screenshot of the new OBS Studio audio mixer. Six audio meters are shown in vertical orientation and arranged in a row. New category labels appear above each entry indicating their grouping status. The first two are Global, followed by three Active, and finally one Inactive. The meters of the audible sources are in color. The ones that are muted or inactive are greyscale. Two buttons are shown below the meters. A speaker icon for toggling the muted state for each entry. A headphone icon for toggling audio monitoring for each entry.
Both the vertical and horizontal mixer layouts have been updated, and vertical is now the default.
Note: Due to how OBS saves default settings (It doesn't), if you've never changed layouts your UI will get swapped to vertical.
Horizontal is still available!
OBS Studio 32.1 is now available!
Alongside the usual tweaks and fixes, this release continues our steady work tidying up the codebase.
This release features a complete rewrite of the Audio Mixer, cleaning up code, and adding new functionality.
Some accounts on our forum were recently compromised due to password re-use and used to post malware.
Please review this list to see if you may have been affected, as well as our other changes in response to this.
As always, we’re thankful to our dedicated community of developers, testers, and support volunteers who help make this project possible. If you’d like to support the project, you can find us on both Patreon and Open Collective.
obsproject.com/contribute
New users will start with better default settings!
Our crash resistant Hybrid MP4 video container (Hybrid MOV on macOS) is now the default recording format.
We also decided it's probably safe to bump up the default streaming bitrate to 6000 after being set to 2500 since 2015.
NVIDIA Broadcast integration in OBS has received several updates! RTX Background Removal now has support for chair detection and removal, a new Voice Activity Detection option was added for audio devices, and several optimizations have been made.
As part of these updates to crash handling, we've removed the ability to disable the clean shutdown check.
This has already provided us a LOT of information about crashes we weren't aware of before and situations where it was showing up incorrectly that we will be fixing.
Our crash handler has been reworked on Windows and macOS, including an addition to the startup prompt to upload crash logs to us after a crash so we can fix them!
We can only fix crashes we know about, so we hope this makes it easier for people to send them to us!
Our work on the long requested Plugin Manager is finally underway! The initial version included in 32.0 lets you enable and disable plugins in OBS Studio without having to dig into your filesystem.
Additional functionality coming in future updates👀
OBS Studio 32 is now available!
This release comes with our initial version of the Plugin Manager! We've also made additions and optimizations to NVIDIA RTX filters, and added hybrid MOV support.
Full changelog and details can be found here:
github.com/obsproject/o...
OBS Studio 31.1.0 Beta is now available
A LOT of hard work has been happening behind the scenes to clean up code the past year so we've removed the Exit button to encourage testing.
Get it from GitHub or in-app via Settings > Update Channel.
Changelog:
Over the past two years or so we've been making some significant changes to our release process and versioning methods.
With OBS Studio 31.0 on the horizon, it’s a good time to discuss those changes and how it's going to affect things going forward!
obsproject.com/blog/obs-stu...
OBS Studio 30.2.3 is available
This release includes Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting, a new theme system, zero-copy hardware encoding on Linux, and a new “Hybrid MP4” format for crash resiliency, compatibility, and support for chapter markers!
Full changelog and details:
github.com/obsproject/o...
