
OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster) is a free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming. It features high-performance real-time video and 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 and color keying, and an intuitive audio mixer with filter functions such as noise gate, noise, and suppression.
OBS Studio is equipped with a powerful API, enabling plugins and scripts to provide further customization and functionality specific to your needs. Use native plugins for high-performance integrations or scripts written in Lua or Python to interface with existing sources. Collaborate with developers in the streaming community to access 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 and audio capture and mixing. Create scenes from 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 advanced control with VST plugin support.
- Powerful and easy-to-use configuration options. Add new Sources, duplicate existing ones, and adjust their properties effortlessly.
- The streamlined Settings panel offers numerous configuration options, allowing you to adjust every aspect of your broadcast or recording.
- The modular ‘Dock’ UI lets you rearrange the layout to your preference. You can even pop each dock into its window.
Create Professional Productions
- Choose from various customizable transitions for switching between scenes, or add your stinger video files.
- Assign hotkeys for nearly every action, such as switching scenes, starting or stopping streams or recordings, muting audio sources, push-to-talk, and more.
- Studio Mode lets you preview scenes and sources before going live. Adjust or create new scenes and sources, ensuring they’re perfect before your viewers see them.
- Gain a high-level view of your production with Multiview. Monitor up to 8 scenes and easily cue or transition to any of them with a single or double click.
OBS software is distributed under the GPLv2 license and developed by volunteer contributors worldwide in their free time. The license allows anyone to use OBS freely for any purpose. It has no watermarks or limitations and can be used commercially without restrictions.
Changes in OBS Studio 32.0.0 :
New Features
- Added a basic plugin manager [FiniteSingularity/PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
- Added opt-in automatic crash log upload for Windows and macOS [PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
- Added Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, which improves noise suppression for speech, as well as several optimizations to NVIDIA Effects [pkviet]
- Added chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal, allowing removal of chairs [pkviet]
- Added experimental Metal renderer for Apple Silicon Macs [PatTheMav]
- Added Hybrid MOV support [derrod]
- Brings ProRes support on macOS and a more widely supported HEVC/H.264 + PCM audio option to all platforms
Changes
- OBS Studio will no longer load plugins built for a newer release of OBS to prevent future compatibility issues
- Added custom OBS widgets in preparation for larger UI updates
- Added preparations for Metal renderer (stay tuned!)
- Changed default bitrate from 2500 to 6000 Kbps
- Changed Hybrid MP4/MOV to be the default containers
- Changed the crash sentinel file location to its own subdirectory
- Improved audio deduplication logic to cover more cases of nested scenes, groups, and multiple canvases
- Prevent audio duplication when sources are set to “Monitor and Output” while the monitoring device is also being captured
- Updated the default settings for AMD encoders
- Improved accuracy of chapter markers in Hybrid MP4/MOV
- Rehid the cursor in edit fields on macOS [gxalpha]
- Improved format selection for PipeWire video capture
- Removed workarounds to prevent loading Qt 5-based plugins
- Removed the –disable-shutdown-check launch flag
- Hybrid MP4/MOV is now out of beta and has been made the default output format for new profiles.
Bug Fixes
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 10 and 11.
- macOS 10.15
- Ubuntu 20.04 and newer