OBS Studio, the popular free open-source live streaming and video recording software, released new 32.0.0 version today!
The new release is made available after 2 Beta and 1 RC testing releases. It features a new plugin manager, allowing to browser, install, update, and turn on/off plugins loading when OBS starts.
The feature is however at very early stage. There are only an UI dialog available via Tools -> Plugin Manager, but no plugin to install and manage in my case.
And probably due to new plugin manager, it will no longer load plugins built for a newer release of OBS to prevent future compatibility issues.
For users with NVIDIA RTX series graphics card, the new release added Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to audio effects. It’s a speech activity detection technique that can improve noise suppression for speech.
As well for NVIDIA RTX, the release added new AI-powered background removal option, allowing removal of chairs.
For modern mac computers with Apple Silicon processor, OBS Studio 32.0.0 added experimental Metal renderer support. It provides a low-level API to directly control the GPU of Apple devices, which will significantly improve the performance and efficiency.
OBS 32.0.0 also introduced new Hybrid MOV container, and set Hybrid MP4/MOV as the default containers. The new container format brings Apple ProRes codec support on macOS and a more widely supported HEVC/H.264 + PCM audio option to all platforms.
Other changes in the release include:
- Add opt-in automatic crash log upload for Windows and macOS.
- Add custom OBS widgets in preparation for larger UI updates.
- Change default bit-rate from 2500 to 6000 Kbps.
- Remove the
--disable-shutdown-checklaunch flag. - Change crash sentinel file location to its own sub-directory.
- Improve audio deduplication logic to cover more cases.
- Various crashes and other bug-fixes.
Get OBS Studio 32.0.0
The official release note as well as the installers (under “Assets”) for Linux, Windows, and macOS are available in Github via the link below:
For Ubuntu, it only provides the .deb package for 24.04. User may choose this official PPA for other Ubuntu releases support.
While, there are also Snap package available in App Center (or Ubuntu Software), and Flatpak package which also support ARM64 processors. Though, you may need to wait for few days as all of them are not updated at the moment of writing.
