OBS Studio News

We have beta build for OBS Studio 28.1 available for testing! This is a minor feature release, focused on NVENC AV1 support and a few smaller bug fixes.

Release Highlights:

• Added NVENC AV1 hardware encoder on Windows [Jim]
  
  • Currently only works with the NV12 (OBS default) and P010 color formats
    
  • Currently does not support the "rescale" feature in advanced output mode
    
  • Only available and shown for RTX 40 Series video cards from NVIDIA
    
  • Available in simple output mode for recording (Beta note: please test this to make sure the quality is as expected for "high" and "indistinguishable"! I can tweak the internal quality coefficients if needed.)
    
  
  
  
• Updated NVENC presets [Jim]
  
  • Presets have been split into 3 different settings: Preset, Tuning, and Multipass Mode
    
  • Presets are now P1-P7, lower numbers being lower quality, higher numbers being higher quality. Note that higher presets may incur higher GPU usage which could impact the performance of games running simultaneously with OBS. The number of simultaneous NVENC encoding sessions may be lower when using the highest presets. OBS will automatically map your current NVENC settings to the closest preset when upgrading.
    
  • Tuning is used to determine whether to prioritize latency or quality. It has three settings: High Quality, Low Latency, and Ultra Low Latency.
    
  • Multipass Mode is used to determine whether a second pass is used in encoding, and has three settings: Disabled, Quarter Resolution, and Full Resolution. Enabling this will give higher quality at the cost of more GPU resource usage.
    
  
  
  
• Fixed a bug where Direct3D 9 games stopped capturing properly with game capture on Windows 11 22H2 [Rodney]
  
• Moved "Always on Top" to the View menu [gxalpha]
  
• You can now select a specific source for the Virtual Camera [chippydip]
  

Find the the full patch notes for OBS Studio 28.1 Beta 1 here: github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/28.1.0-beta1

To receive this beta on Steam open the "Properties" window, navigate to the "Betas" tab and select the "beta" option in the dropdown:



(If you're not seeing the "beta" option yet try restarting your Steam client)

We need your help tracking down as many bugs as you can find before we make a full release! Please give the build a try and let us know here or in the #beta-testing channel on

The second hotfix for 28.0 is now available. It addresses a number of issues reported by our users since the 28.0/28.0.1 releases.

Note: We updated the Visual C++ redistributables to the 2022 version, you may be asked to install the new version when launching OBS.

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• Fix macOS updater not updating to newer versions [Rodney]
  
• Fix YouTube Manage Broadcast dialog being too large for 768p displays [cg2121]
  
• Fix broken prefix for obspython binary module on Linux [PatTheMav]
  
• Fix hotkey settings screen not accepting all input on macOS [PatTheMav]
  
• Fix memory leak with mpegts [pkv]
  
• Fix crash when left-clicking on non-multiview projectors [r1ch]
  
• Fix I420 HLG support [rcdrone]
  
• Fix resource leak in v4l2-output [shoffmeister]
  
• Fix source name edit textbox not accepting input on enter [PatTheMav]
  
• Add support for reading NV12/YUY2 PQ/HLG [rcdrone]
  
• Fix spacing in scene and source tree [gxalpha]
  
• Fix Qt5-linked plugins crashing Qt6-based OBS builds on Linux [kkartaltepe/norihiro]
  
• Update volume controls decay rate on profile switch [PatTheMav]
  
• Fix crash when removing filter after changing a value [PatTheMav]
  
• Fix frame sharing and colorspace issues for macOS Virtual Camera [PatTheMav]
  
• Fix crashes and unusable property button for VSTs on M1 Macs [PatTheMav]
  
• Fix Light theme Studio Mode labels and T-bar [shiina424]
  
• Update media states when image source is de-/activated [WarmUpTill]
  
• Don't save/overwrite browser docks if CEF hasn't loaded [WizardCM]
  
• Fix DeckLink Output color range and space [rcdrone]
  
• Undeprecate traditional capture sources on macOS 12 [gxalpha]
  
• Fix startup crash on Intel Macs [Jim]
  
• Fix NVIDIA Audio Effects not updating according to user selection [pkv]
  

We just released the first 28.0 hotfix to address a few issues reported since the 28.0 release on Wednesday:

• Fixed a bug causing MP4/MOV files to sometimes save in a corrupted state
  
• Fixed a bug causing DeckLink device sources to sometimes not capture
  
• Fixed the Windows auto-updater to only update on Windows 10 and above
  
• Added "Resize output (source size)" back to the source context menu
  
• Reverted a change causing video capture device settings to be reset when used
  
  • NOTE: This reverts the automatic saving of video capture device configuration settings. This will be reintroduced in a future version.
    

For the full changelog including 28.0 itself see github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/28.0.1

Welcome to OBS Studio 28, celebrating the 10th anniversary of OBS! 10 years ago, the first version of OBS was released by Jim. Today, we have hundreds of contributors and countless users. We're very grateful for all the support, and we're happy that so many people find it useful! This release comes with a ton of new features, all of which can be found in the release notes, but we've highlighted a few here.

First, and probably the biggest change, is that we now have HDR support! You can play games in HDR and OBS will automatically tonemap the content to SDR. If you want to capture and record HDR content, this is now possible with the appropriate HDR settings. See the release notes for a basic overview and how to set OBS correctly for HDR.

For our Apple M1/M2 users, native Apple Silicon support is here! OBS is now available as an ARM64 app for macOS, running without Rosetta. Also available for our Apple friends on macOS 12.5+ is the new ScreenCaptureKit, which improves the experience in capturing both individual windows and the display. For those on macOS 13+, direct audio capture is also available.

NVIDIA Background Removal is now available for RTX GPUs on Windows. This allows you to remove the background from your camera without a physical greenscreen.

We’ve added a new, more efficient and up-to-date implementation of the AMD encoder on Windows. This update improves performance and provides access to new encoder features.

A long time coming, obs-websocket is now part of OBS as a first-party plugin! This makes it easier to get up and running with tools that interact with obs-websocket. You can find more information here: https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-and-obs-websocket-join-forces

If you would like to support the OBS Project, please consider contributing to our Patreon or Open Collective!

NOTE: Some plugins may not be compatible with OBS 28. You can check the status of the most common plugins on the OBS Plugin Compatibility page.

NOTE 2: OBS 28.0 and later is no longer compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and macOS versions prior to 10.15. To continue using OBS 27.2 on those legacy operating systems please select the "27.2" beta branch.