OBS Studio 32.0.0 Beta 1 released with a new plugin manager

OBS Studio is set to get even more advanced for all your recording and streaming needs on Linux, with the introduction of a new plugin manager. It arrives with the newly released OBS Studio 32.0.0 Beta 1 that's now available for testing.

In addition to the new basic plugin manager they've also added Hybrid MOV support, expanded NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, an improved format selection for PipeWire video capture for Linux and much more. Sounds like it's going to be another really nice release, and it's so easy to use!

The full list of changes:

32.0 New Features

• Added a basic plugin manager [FiniteSingularity/PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
• Added opt-in automatic crash log upload for Windows and macOS [PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
• Added Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, which improves noise suppression for speech, as well as several optimizations to NVIDIA Effects [pkviet]
• Added chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal, allowing removal of chairs [pkviet]
• Added Hybrid MOV support [derrod]
  • Brings ProRes support on macOS and HEVC/H.264 and PCM audio support on all platforms

32.0 Changes

• OBS Studio will no longer load plugins built for a newer release of OBS to prevent future compatibility issues [norihiro]
• Added custom OBS widgets in preparation for larger UI updates [derrod/gxalpha/Warchamp7]
• Added preparations for Metal renderer (stay tuned!) [PatTheMav]
• Improved audio deduplication logic to cover more cases of nested scenes, groups, and multiple canvases [pkviet]
• Prevent audio duplication when sources are set to "Monitor and Output" while the monitoring device is also being captured [pkviet]
• Updated the default settings for AMD encoders [rhutsAMD]
• Improved accuracy of chapter markers in Hybrid MP4/MOV [derrod]
• Re-hid the cursor in edit fields on macOS [gxalpha]
• Improved format selection for PipeWire video capture [tytan652]

32.0 Bug Fixes

• Potentially fixed a rare crash on macOS when moving or resizing the OBS window [PatTheMav]
• Fixed a crash with SRT when using an invalid URL [pkviet]
• Fixed a crash when setting non-default pkt_size with SRT [pkviet]
• Fixed a crash in Media Source when playback starts with certain video files [howellrl]
• Fixed rare occurrence of multiview becoming blank [norihiro]
• Fixed SRT reconnection failures [pkviet]
• Fixed overflow texture rendering sRGB-awareness [PatTheMav]
• Fixed incorrect color range property setting for AMD AV1 encoder [rhutsAMD]
• Fixed Hybrid MP4 file splitting not working correctly in some cases [derrod]
• Fixed not being able to capture higher than 60fps with macOS Screen Capture [jcm93]
• Fixed focus not displaying properly in hotkey settings on macOS [gxalpha]
• Fixed the scrollbar appearing invisible in Light and Rachni themes [shiina424]
• Fixed HEVC frame priority not being set correctly in some cases, potentially causing playback errors when dropping frames [dsaedtler]
• Fixed an issue that could result in increases to output latency after temporary encoder stalls [dsaedtler]
• Removed a workaround for older Qt versions that prevented docks from loading correctly while OBS is maximized [RytoEX]

Source: GitHub