OBS Studio 31.0 Beta (2025)

WARNING: If you are using Groups in your Scene Collection, there is a known issue that may result in their size/position being shifted when using Beta1. We are working on a fix, which can be tracked here. If your scenes are affected, please note that a backup is created before migration to the new relative coordinates system, and can be found in your OBS settings directory, under the file <name>.json.v1, where <name> is your scene collection name.

Disclaimer: This is a test build, not a full release. This build may contain bugs or broken functionality. For production usage, we still recommend using the latest stable build of OBS. If you are willing to test this build, please let us know if you run into any issues.

OBS Studio 31.0 Beta1 is now available for testing! This release comes with new NVIDA Blur and Background Blur filters, easier scrolling of the preview when zoomed, improved YouTube Chat support, a long-awaited update to the Browser Source (including custom docks and service integrations!), a rewritten NVENC encoder for better performance, and many backend changes and optimizations for upcoming features in newer versions.

To enable the beta version, either download from the GitHub link below, or on Windows/macOS go to Settings -> General and change the Update Channel to Betas / Release Candidates

• Added NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur [pkviet]
• Added preview scrollbars and zoom/scale indicator [cg2121/Warchamp7]
• Added v210 format support for AJA device capture [paulh-aja]
• Added Amazon IVS service integration [palana]
• Added QSV AV1 Screen Content Coding [thyintel]
• Enabled first-party YouTube Chat features [msuman-google]
• Updated the browser source/docks CEF (Chromium) to version 127 (6533) on all platforms [reitowo/WizardCM/PatTheMav/tytan652/pkviet/kkartaltepe/Lain-B]
• Changed scene items to use relative coordinates [derrod]
  • Existing scene collections will be automatically converted to use relative coordinates if the scene collection has a known output resolution set.
• Split NVIDIA Audio Effects from Noise Suppression [pkviet]
  • Existing filters will be automatically migrated.
• Changed the Image Slideshow's Playback Mode property from radio buttons to a dropdown [derrod]
• Disabled the (currently unsupported) built-in Automatic Scene Switcher when using Wayland on Linux [tytan652]
• Improved error messages for macOS Virtual Camera [jcm93]
• Changed Display and Window capture on Windows to not capture the first found display or window [Lain-B]
• Changed display and window capture on Linux to not capture implicitly [Lain-B]
• Added a warning to Window Capture when trying to capture WinUI 3 applications with BitBlt [qhy040404]
• Refactored the NVENC implementation with various improvements [derrod]
  • SDK 12.2 features, such as split encoding, are now supported.
  • Additional features from old SDKs are supported:
    • B-Frames as reference
    • Target Quality VBR mode (CQVBR)
  • A custom options field has been added to allow setting more options that don't warrant their own UI elements.
• Improved screensaver inhibit functions on Linux in Flatpak
• Removed default desktop audio device on macOS 13+ [jcm93]
• Removed NVIDIA Kepler GPU support for NVENC [derrod]
• Removed FTL support [derrod]
• Removed legacy migrations from OBS Studio 28.1 and earlier [derrod]
  • If updating from these older versions, you may wish to update to OBS Studio 30.2 first, and then update to OBS Studio 31.
• Removed support for Ubuntu 22.04 [derrod]
• Application settings have been split into "app" configuration and "user" configuration, rather than storing everything in global.ini [PatTheMav]

Find the the full patch notes and download links for OBS Studio 31.0 Beta1 here:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio-unstablesudo apt updatesudo apt install obs-studio

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:obsproject/obs-studio-unstablesudo apt updatesudo apt remove obs-studio

$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo$ flatpak install flathub-beta com.obsproject.Studio

Please give the build a try and let us know here or in the #beta-testing channel on Discord if you have any issues. Thanks for your help!

Hello! Tried this update, and a lot of my sources are now resized completely wrong so I've had to redo a bunch of my scenes sadly. :(

Grumpus said:

Hello! Tried this update, and a lot of my sources are now resized completely wrong so I've had to redo a bunch of my scenes sadly. :(

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Just to confirm, were you using Groups for the sources that had their sizes changed? Please provide a log file if possible.

EDIT: As a note, the original scene should be saved as a backup before the migration as a ".json.v1" file in the OBS settings directory. Once we fix the issue with Groups, it can be re-imported and should be still fine.

Fenrir said:

Just to confirm, were you using Groups for the sources that had their sizes changed? Please provide a log file if possible.

EDIT: As a note, the original scene should be saved as a backup before the migration as a ".json.v1" file in the OBS settings directory. Once we fix the issue with Groups, it can be re-imported and should be still fine.

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Exactly, I was just messing about with it more and it seemed to be related to groups. Thanks for the help. :)

hafner said:

Hi, this is the error I encountered when choosing ultra-high quality in tuning

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Please provide a log file after encountering the error.

hafner said:

I don't do this often, I'm sorry

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No worries! The issue is that you need to set bframes to at least 4 for that tune to work properly. There was supposed to be a guard/fallback that set it automatically, but it was just an oversight. We'll get it fixed by final release.

OBS crashes immediately upon opening after updating to this version. Is there an easy way to roll back without losing my profiles/scenes?

So yeah, I have a lot of groups and scenes and the locations go haywire to the point that I simply rolled back, and used the backup scene to repair. Is the new coordinate system coming whether we like it or not, and are our groups destined to be jumbled up in the near future? Because if so I will simply bite the bullet and start working the show over to accommodate. If not, I will simply wait for the mitigations to be in place before upgrading when the release comes.

Thanks in advance, looks like a great update otherwise!

Fenrir said:

...a long-awaited update to the Browser Source (including custom docks and service integrations!)...

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Does that include browser plugins? Like adblock for example?

AaronD said:

Does that include browser plugins? Like adblock for example?

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For this version, no. If we want to support browser plugins in the future (which adds additional complexity and security complications) we currently have a long road ahead to prepare for such an eventuality.