Fix for an issue with logging high frame rate video capture devices.

Support for YouTube Live control room panel.Ability to arrange filters by dragging and dropping.Other than the above-mentioned, here are some other changes worth noting: These additions to OBS will be appreciated by many content creators using Linux. They are Intel QSV H264, High Efficiency Video Coding ( HEVC), and AV1. Support for three major video coding tech was added with OBS Studio 30. There are two ways to access it, one is when OBS Studio shuts down unexpectedly, and the other is manually via the “Help” menu as shown below. The older status bar was a bit finicky to refer to, and I would often forget that it even existed while streaming or recording 😆Ī new “ Safe Mode” was also added with OBS Studio 30, this will start up the application without loading any third-party plugins, scripting or web sockets for troubleshooting purposes. This will come in handy for integrating those long chat windows found on Twitch and YouTube while live-streaming.Įven the status bar was redesigned for providing the same information, but, in a more organized/structured manner. Improved UI/UXĪ new option was added to the “Docks” menu that enables Full-Height docks. You can read official announcement for details regarding the plans. Of course, you have nothing to worry about it for now. The devs have also revealed that they might plan to drop support for Qt 6.2 and Ubuntu 22.04 around April 2025. Users of Ubuntu 20.04 now have two options, either they can upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 or later, or they can switch to using the Flatpak version of OBS Studio.

This is not a change that happened overnight, it was already announced back in June on OBS Studio's GitHub repo. The main reason behind that decision was that it was becoming more difficult for the developers to maintain Qt 5, which in turn affected their work on bringing improvements to the UI/UX side of OBS.Īnd as it turns out, Ubuntu 20.04 was the only first-party distribution using Qt 5 for OBS, which, according to the developer, already had a dwindling user base in comparison to the other variants. With the release of OBS Studio 30, Ubuntu 20.04 is no longer supported.

Some key highlights of this release include: Being a major release, OBS Studio 30 features plenty of improvements to look forward to, but, also has a change that might not sit well with some users.

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