com.obsproject.Studio
Free and open source software for video capturing, recording, and live streaming.
Features:
- High performance real time video/audio capturing and mixing. Create scenes made up of multiple sources including window captures, images, text, browser windows, webcams, capture cards and more.
- Set up an unlimited number of scenes you can switch between seamlessly via custom transitions.
- Intuitive audio mixer with per-source filters such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain. Take full control with VST plugin support.
- Powerful and easy to use configuration options. Add new Sources, duplicate existing ones, and adjust their properties effortlessly.
- Streamlined Settings panel gives you access to a wide array of configuration options to tweak every aspect of your broadcast or recording.
- Modular 'Dock' UI allows you to rearrange the layout exactly as you like. You can even pop out each individual Dock to its own window.
Create Professional Productions:
- Choose from a number of different and customizable transitions for when you switch between your scenes or add your own stinger video files.
- Set hotkeys for nearly every sort of action, such as switching between scenes, starting/stopping streams or recordings, muting audio sources, push to talk, and more.
- Studio Mode lets you preview your scenes and sources before pushing them live. Adjust your scenes and sources or create new ones and ensure they're perfect before your viewers ever see them.
- Get a high level view of your production using the Multiview. Monitor 8 different scenes and easily cue or transition to any of them with merely a single or double click.
Latest reviews
Obviously the best screen recorder I've tried. If you get, "Couldn't initialize muxer", make sure you have ffmpeg installed and change your video and audio encoders to FFmpeg VAAPI HEVC and change VAAPI device to your best GPU for performance.
Works fine on Mint 22.1 with no real issues. Haven't encountered any crashes or errors yet!
Not able to get the flatpak to work on Mint 21.3 (brand new install). It wasn't that it crashed; it would never start up.
The defacto standard recording software for me because it is the most capable.
If you hit a CUDA error when starting a recording, then this easy fix might help: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/11381#issuecomment-2406218077
I've been using the Flatpak version of OBS on my LMDE 6 and it has been working great on my laptop (Intel processor and graphics).
In linux Mint 21.3 it worked perfect, but in linux Mint 22 it just doesn't work, in every try I got a message "couldn't initialize muxer", using the system package worked perfect.
crashed on the second recording attempt. Known issue, too, but apparently too minor to fix.
OBS Studio is a great video recording software that is more advanced compared to other recording software. You do need a little bit of knowledge to set it up, but after that it works great.
This version of the software doesn't have support for Black Magic Devices or VLC, otherwise works as intended.