OBS Studio 31.0 Beta 1

Important

• NVIDIA Kepler GPUs are no longer supported for NVENC.

• The code signing certificate for OBS is being updated. This may impact game capture compatibility with some anti-cheat solutions starting with the next major OBS update. If you are a game or anti-cheat developer please see https://obsproject.com/kb/capture-hook-certificate-update for more information.

31.0 New Features

• Added NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur [pkviet]

• Added preview scrollbars and zoom/scale indicator [cg2121/Warchamp7]

• Added v210 format support for AJA device capture [paulh-aja]

• Added Amazon IVS service integration [palana]

• Added QSV AV1 Screen Content Coding

• Enabled first-party YouTube Chat features [msuman-google]

31.0 Changes

• Updated the browser source/docks CEF (Chromium) to version 127 (6533) on all platforms [reitowo/WizardCM/PatTheMav/tytan652/pkviet/kkartaltepe/Lain-B]

• Changed scene items to use relative coordinates [derrod]

• Existing scene collections will be automatically converted to use relative coordinates if the scene collection has a known output resolution set.

• Split NVIDIA Audio Effects from Noise Suppression [pkviet]

• Existing filters will be automatically migrated.

• Changed the Image Slideshow's Playback Mode property from radio buttons to a dropdown [derrod]

• Disabled the (currently unsupported) built-in Automatic Scene Switcher when using Wayland on Linux [tytan652]

• Improved error messages for macOS Virtual Camera [jcm93]

• Changed Display and Window capture on Windows to not capture the first found display or window [Lain-B]

• Changed display and window capture on Linux to not capture implicitly [Lain-B]

• Added a warning to Window Capture when trying to capture WinUI 3 applications with BitBlt [qhy040404]

• Refactored the NVENC implementation with various improvements [derrod]

• SDK 12.2 features, such as split encoding, are now supported.

• Additional features from old SDKs are supported:

• B-Frames as reference

• Target Quality VBR mode (CQVBR)

• A custom options field has been added to allow setting more options that don't warrant their own UI elements.

• Improved screensaver inhibit functions on Linux in Flatpak

• Removed default desktop audio device on macOS 13+ [jcm93]

• Removed NVIDIA Kepler GPU support for NVENC [derrod]

• Removed FTL support [derrod]

• Removed legacy migrations from OBS Studio 28.1 and earlier [derrod]

• If updating from these older versions, you may wish to update to OBS Studio 30.2 first, and then update to OBS Studio 31.

• Removed support for Ubuntu 22.04 [derrod]

• Application settings have been split into "app" configuration and "user" configuration, rather than storing everything in global.ini [PatTheMav]

31.0 Bug Fixes

• Fixed two crashes with the QSV encoder on Linux [kkartaltepe]

• Fixed a crash with a race condition involving multitrack video output reconnect [dsaedtler]

• Fixed two potential crashes in Linux Window Capture [Lain-B]

• Fixed a deadlock in MP4 muxer [derrod/notr1ch]

• Fixed a deadlock when shutting down muxer [exeldro]

• Fixed a potential deadlock when stopping an encoder [derrod]

• Fixed a potential memory error and crash in text parser [fzwoch]

• Fixed a couple minor memory leaks [pkviet]

• Fixed a memory leak when playing an HDR media file [tt2468]

• Fixed an SRT listener bug where the socket was not closed properly [pkviet]

• Fixed an issue where the current scene collection could be erased to default when trying to switch to a different scene collection that's corrupted or invalid [derrod]

• Fixed a buffer overrun in UTF-8 text conversion [derrod]

• Fixed an issue that could cause bitrate spikes in QSV CBR

• Note: This fix only applies to Lunar Lake or newer except Alder Lake N.

• Fixed an issue where the Auto Configuration Wizard could unintentionally enable Enhanced Broadcasting [lexano-ivs]

• Fixed issues with the audio clipping indicators displaying incorrectly on volume meters [norihiro]

• Fixed various issues with Happy Eyeballs [notr1ch]

• Fixed an issue causing hotkeys to register inconsistently on macOS [jcm93]

• Fixed an issue causing multitrack video output to fail if color format was set to I444 [dsaedtler]

• Fixed an issue where Custom CSS in browser sources no longer worked with certain websites (namely YouTube chat) [vvto33]

• Restored STUN support for WHIP output [mondain]