Tag: OBS Studio

OBS 33 is here

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Whats that OBS did a big point release? It did indeed. (OK OK it’s 33.0.1 now…)

For the most part for streamers the key changes as a bunch of UI overhaul and a update to browser sources. This should really trip anyone up but it so make sure to drop your developer a line so they can update.

This one is a mix of “just catching up to the lastest browser engine” as well as “plugging security holes from the old engine we had”, so it’s an important update/change.

The same goes for OBS Plugins, for some plugins an API command or two was removed and plugins might not graceful catch that and crash out, but thats rare. Most developers will have caught up and updated already, but you should check for plugin updates anyway.

As a Plugin Developer

For plugin developers OBS has started the 6 month or so period of “we are makign a big change” warning period.

Notably is changes to how images are loaded for use. (specifically the removal of gs_image_file which to my knowledge should be replaced with image_file)

So if you a Streamer and you see plugins marked as “legacy” in the Plugin Manager, don’t worry about it). But maybe check/drop a line to the plugin developers, they may also have patched already for this change and a update is available.

As a Streamer

If a streamer, you should not take it upon yourself to move plugins around yourself. OBS will auto handle this itself when they complete the deprecation cycle, if a plugin developer doesn’t update the plugin themself in the mean time.

Quick Change Summary

  • Updated Browser Source engine to something MUCh newer
  • Many changes to how PLugins load to ensure the sanity of plugins and OBS going forwards
  • Improved Source Snapping when moving sources around
  • Improved checks for removed encoders
  • Support for latest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs (don’t forget to update those)
  • Fixes/improvements to game capture
  • All the usual bug fixes tweaks and improvements across the board

Known issue if you use a “controller inputs overlay” can be tracked here the joys of fixing security bugs is you introduce security blocks.

Summary

You can find the full change log for OBS v33 over on github and plugin developers can check the details for legacy over on the OBS Knowledge base.

And don’t forget to file OBS bug reports with OBS to help us all AND talk to your plugin devs so they can update their plugins!

And don’t forget to backup profiles and scenes collections before hand, in case you need to roll OBS back if v33 and the plugins are not ready for you and your work flows yet!

OBS 32.1’s new SHINY

OBS 32.1 is out and comes with some shiny stuff.

Aside from partial Canvas support into OBS Websocket, which is handy now that dual format streaming (and/or sending horizontal one place and vertical to another) is a thing. So WebSocket consumers can have some idea whats going on, but I need to sit down and play with that a little more before I comment further.

But what I have already been playing with is the new Audio Mixer, (I had some tester access to a build with the Audio Mixer in thanks to Warchamp whose leading the work on tweaking/updating the OBS UI)

So what does the new Audio Mixer do? Well in a nutshell:

  • Clearly shows which sources in the audio Mixer are Global (or pinned), Active in this scene or hidden (either due to manually hidden or not on the active scene)
  • Easy access to “monitor this source” without having to open the Advanced Audio Settings UI (and see the monitoring state)
  • Pin an audio source (to move it from the local to global list)
  • AND THE BIGGEST USEFUL THING: Ability to Rename Audio Sources! (and to some degree sort sources in the dock as it’s Alphabetic)

In Pictures

So your Audio Mixer can go from

to

Summary

So here on the new UI, you can see I already renamed my global sources, no more Mic/Aux 2/3/etc it’s closer to the Windows Device name for the source as set in main settings -> Audio.

But what else does it do? Bottom right you can see a new monitoring status button/icon, you no longer have to go into Advanced Audio Settings to toggle monitor on/off and you can much easily see which sources are montored!

So left to right, the global/pinned group then the scene active group. And then sources are alphabetic sorted instead those groups.

So get renaming after updating today!

Check out the full change log for OBS 32.1.0 over on Github or check your OBS today for the update!

And you can offer feedback via the OBS Discord!