OBS Studio 32.0.0 Beta 1

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Aug 29, 2025 00:18 EDT with 0 comments

OBS Studio

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 32.0.0 Beta 1 changelog:

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 Hybrid MOV support [derrod]
Brings ProRes support on macOS and HEVC/H.264 and PCM audio support on all platforms

Changes

OBS Studio will no longer load plugins built for a newer release of OBS to prevent future compatibility issues [norihiro]
Added custom OBS widgets in preparation for larger UI updates [derrod/gxalpha/Warchamp7]
Added preparations for Metal renderer (stay tuned!) [PatTheMav]
Improved audio deduplication logic to cover more cases of nested scenes, groups, and multiple canvases [pkviet]
Prevent audio duplication when sources are set to "Monitor and Output" while the monitoring device is also being captured [pkviet]
Updated the default settings for AMD encoders [rhutsAMD]
Improved accuracy of chapter markers in Hybrid MP4/MOV [derrod]
Re-hid the cursor in edit fields on macOS [gxalpha]
Improved format selection for PipeWire video capture [tytan652]

Bug Fixes

Potentially fixed a rare crash on macOS when moving or resizing the OBS window [PatTheMav]
Fixed a crash with SRT when using an invalid URL [pkviet]
Fixed a crash when setting non-default pkt_size with SRT [pkviet]
Fixed a crash in Media Source when playback starts with certain video files [howellrl]
Fixed rare occurrence of multiview becoming blank [norihiro]
Fixed SRT reconnection failures [pkviet]
Fixed overflow texture rendering sRGB-awareness [PatTheMav]
Fixed incorrect color range property setting for AMD AV1 encoder [rhutsAMD]
Fixed Hybrid MP4 file splitting not working correctly in some cases [derrod]
Fixed not being able to capture higher than 60fps with macOS Screen Capture [jcm93]
Fixed focus not displaying properly in hotkey settings on macOS [gxalpha]
Fixed the scrollbar appearing invisible in Light and Rachni themes [shiina424]
Fixed HEVC frame priority not being set correctly in some cases, potentially causing playback errors when dropping frames [dsaedtler]
Fixed an issue that could result in increases to output latency after temporary encoder stalls [dsaedtler]
Removed a workaround for older Qt versions that prevented docks from loading correctly while OBS is maximized [RytoEX]