Download OBS Studio 30.1.0 RC1

The first release candidate of OBS Studio version 30.1 has been released. Open Broadcaster Software Studio is an open source and cross-platform software intended for recording and streaming video from one or more sources, such as a webcam, microphone, media files and the desktop. It is important to know that from version 30 onwards, support for Ubuntu 20.04, Qt 5 and FFmpeg version 4.4 or older has been discontinued. The changelog for this release can be found below.

RC1 Changes

• Fixed a crash in Beta 1-3 when streaming with SRT
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1-3 where settings would not save correctly under certain circumstances when changing services
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1-3 where the Source Toolbar would not update after deleting a scene item
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1-3 on macOS with not being able to select an appropriate frame rate on some camera/capture devices
• Fixed an issue with Beta 3 not being published on Flathub

Beta 3 Changes

• Fixed a crash in Beta 1 and 2 on macOS when starting OBS with a device that has more than 8 audio channels
• Fixed a crash in Beta 1 and 2 on macOS when reconnecting an audio device that had channel mapping configured
• Fixed a crash in Beta 1 and 2 on macOS when encoding with AOM
• Fixed possible crashes in Beta 1 and 2 in third-party plugins
• Fixed several possible crashes in Beta 1 and 2 on macOS when trying to add a Capture Card Device or Video Capture Device source
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 and 2 having a memory leak with the “Capture Audio (BETA)” option in the Game Capture source
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 and 2 with the “Capture Audio (BETA)” option in the Game Capture source not disabling the application audio capture when the game capture was deactivated
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 and 2 with the tooltip for the “Capture Audio (BETA)” option in the Game Capture source being too long
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 and 2 with Capture Card Device source on macOS not working due to incompatible settings on device initialization
• Fixed an issue with Beta 1 and 2 not being published on Flathub
• Fixed a regression causing a missing tooltip for Fragmented MOV/MP4
• Fixed an issue with the background of audio meters being transparent causing visual artifacts
• Fixed an issue with Yes/No buttons on the Reset Docks confirmation message box not being translated
• Fixed an issue preventing the Remux dialog from being used multiple times

Beta 2 Changes

• Fixed a crash in Beta 1 in the new Image Slideshow source when clicking the Randomize button with no files loaded
• Fixed a possible crash in Lua scripts when switching scene collections
• Fixed crashes with the Virtual Camera on Windows when apps consumed it as YUY2
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 where Twitch VOD track did not work in Advanced Output
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 where AMF encoded videos did not work correctly in DaVinci Resolve
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 where QSV on Linux could fail on systems with multiple GPUs
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 where QSV on Linux would fail due to attempting to use the unimplemented texture encoder
• Fixed an issue in Beta 1 where the FFmpeg VAAPI encoder could hang on Intel
• Fixed an issue with free disk space calculation on ExFAT and FAT32 volumes on macOS
• Fixed an issue with free disk space calculation on macOS not matching values ​​in Finder
• Fixed an issue where a removed source's scene would not be correctly logged
• Clarified the macOS microphone permissions prompt