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OBS Studio 31.0.2

2025-03-08 By admin

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 31.0.2 changelog:

  • Fixed a crash on Windows when initializing a Video Capture Device source that does not provide a valid frame size [RytoEX]
  • Fixed a crash on Windows when using NVIDIA Audio Effects filters with certain SDK versions [pkviet]
  • Fixed a crash on Windows when using obs-websocket with a config path that contained Unicode characters [PatTheMav/tt2468]
  • Fixed a crash on macOS when initializing a Video Capture Device source in a corrupt state [jcm93]
  • Fixed an issue on macOS where Python scripting would not work if Python was installed via Homebrew [jcm93]
  • Fixed an issue on Windows where browser sources would not recognize gamepad input if OBS Studio was not in focus [WizardCM]
  • Fixed an issue with browser sources where they would occasionally stutter for 250ms [reitowo/WizardCM/PatTheMav/tytan652/pkviet]
  • Fixed an issue on Linux where browser sources used more CPU than previous versions [tytan652]
  • Fixed the setting value range for NVENC target quality for AV1 [Bleuzen]
  • Fixed logging for NVENC lookahead values [DeeDeeG]
  • Added additional logging for browser sources [WizardCM/tt2468]

Release notes:

  • NVIDIA Kepler (600 and 700 series) GPUs are no longer supported for NVENC.

Note

  • NVIDIA users may need to update their GPU drivers to 551.76 (Windows) / 550.54.14 (Linux) or newer.

Important

Download 64-bit: OBS Studio 31.0.2 | Portable | ~150.0 MB (Open Source)
View: OBS Studio Homepage | Other Operating Systems

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