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OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

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OBS Studio <https://obsproject.com>
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   :alt: OBS Studio Discord Server
   :target: https://obsproject.com/discord

What is OBS Studio?
-------------------

OBS Studio is software designed for capturing, compositing, encoding,
recording, and streaming video content, efficiently.

It's distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 (or any later
version) - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details.

Quick Links
-----------

- Website: https://obsproject.com

- Help/Documentation/Guides: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki

- Forums: https://obsproject.com/forum/

- Build Instructions: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki/Install-Instructions

- Developer/API Documentation: https://obsproject.com/docs

- Donating/backing/sponsoring: https://obsproject.com/contribute

- Bug Tracker: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues

Contributing
------------

- If you would like to help fund or sponsor the project, you can do so
  via `Patreon <https://www.patreon.com/obsproject>`_, `OpenCollective
  <https://opencollective.com/obsproject>`_, or `PayPal
  <https://www.paypal.me/obsproject>`_.  See our `contribute page
  <https://obsproject.com/contribute>`_ for more information.

- If you wish to contribute code to the project, please make sure to
  read the coding and commit guidelines:
  https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
  
- Code for the project follows the code style guidelines, located
  here: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/CODESTYLE.md

- Developer/API documentation can be found here:
  https://obsproject.com/docs

- If you wish to contribute translations, do not submit pull requests.
  Instead, please use Crowdin.  For more information read this page:
  https://obsproject.com/wiki/How-To-Contribute-Translations-For-OBS

- Contributors to OBS Studio and related repositories are expected to
  follow our Code of Conduct, which can be read here:
  https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/COC.rst

- Other ways to contribute are by helping people out with support on
  our forums or in our community chat.  Please limit support to topics
  you fully understand -- bad advice is worse than no advice.  When it
  comes to something that you don't fully know or understand, please
  defer to the official help or official channels.

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Repository info

Default branch: master
Latest version: 32.2.2
Created: 2013-10-01
Last activity: 2026-10-10
License: GPL-2.0
Open issues: 1.2k
Watchers: 1.6k

Topics

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