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

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Forks: 10.2k
Open beginner issues: 5
Indexed issues: 814
Avg merge: 4d 23h
Merged PRs (30d): 12

Dominant language: C
License: GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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814 open issues indexed

Inconsistent dock toolbar spacing before theme change Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13909 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
macOS: GetInputPropertiesListPropertyItems on screen_capture's display_uuid crashes OBS (strlen(NULL) on the placeholder list entry) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13905 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
macOS: OBS hangs indefinitely (beachball) starting an Audio Input Capture source when the device isn't ready — no timeout on AudioOutputUnitStart Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13902 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
linux-v4l2: Adjusting camera controls (Zoom, Focus, etc.) triggers stream restarts on USB3 4k webcam (Elgato 4k facecam) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13896 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
UI Is Hidden When Re-opening not Through System Tray Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13895 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
[Windows 10] Poor frame pacing with WGC window capture Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13893 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2026
OBS Studio crashes after removing a Group with a source in it Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13892 · 8 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2026
macOS: GPU clock and power gradually ramp to maximum while OBS window is visible, immediately drops when minimized Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13891 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
T-Bar controlled via frontend API always cancels the transition — obs_frontend_set_tbar_position() never updates the T-Bar slider Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13887 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
getUserMedia does not list OBS Virtual Camera Open

platform/linux

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13873 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Transition button gets grayed out going through slideshow Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13866 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Profile import fails on macOS in 32.2.2: profile name parsed as empty, files copied to profiles root ("File exists" error) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13862 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
OBS initializing HDMI capture cards at 44.1Khz and causing havoc on the USB bus Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13860 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Two confirmed bugs in the YouTube broadcast dialog (OAuth language not sent; Auto-stop setting not saved) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13856 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
SRT reading via media source uses old / incorrect url or streamid in obs 32.2.2 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13853 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
SVT-AV1 CBR parameters are not applied because OBS uses the wrong FFmpeg AVOption name Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13849 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Multiple PipeWire screen capture sources cause severe render/compositor lag, even when disabled Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13836 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Video Delay (Async) filter degrades recorded audio (broadband grain, +44 dB noise floor) at multi-second delays; Render Delay unaffected Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13830 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Separate Audio Input Capture of Blackmagic Device renders mute Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13824 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
PipeWire camera source: out.linesize[i] never set for planes > 0 — NV12 renders green Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13823 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Twitch Stream Information dock is a web page and is unusable with a screen reader, while YouTube gets a real dialog Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13819 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Crash (NULL deref) in screencast-portal.c start() when a delayed portal SelectSources response arrives after the session is gone Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13809 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2026
OBS 32.2.2 crashes when closing/removing YouTube Live Control Panel dock on Windows 11 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13807 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Memory leak after stopping recording with QSV encoder on Windows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13803 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Filenames for recordings don't get sanitised, replay buffers do Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13786 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
WebM-VP9 codec no longer loads with BGRA format Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13785 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Selecting "Microsoft DV Camera and VCR" as a video capture device causes a crash Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13784 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Pipewire: video capture pipe disconnects when video format/framerate is changed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13783 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
When resizing or fullscreening OBS it crashes my pc (hardlock) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13779 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
FFmpeg VAAPI encoder fails to start when profile contains a stale vaapi_device path Open

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 68/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13773 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Problem with CBR not working properly on Video Encoder: Amd Hw H.264 in streaming Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13772 · Opened Aug 9, 2026
Removal of deprecated hiding APIs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13768 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
OBS Studio 34.0 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13767 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
OBS UI Deceives Users: Silent Encoder Crash Faked a 5-Hour Recording with ZERO Warnings Open

needs/more-info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13760 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Crash (EXC_BAD_ACCESS in Qt event dispatch) after ScreenCaptureKit stream disconnect (-3805) during long-running session on macOS 26 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13755 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
OBS crashes after starting an existing scheduled YouTube broadcast — YouTubeStreamCheckThread / Qt6Core.dll Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13746 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
OBS does not properly hook applications (PCSX2 2.7.57 or newer) that load the Agility SDK via Independent devices Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13740 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Browser Source audio control causes excessive WindowServer CPU usage on Intel macOS Tahoe Open

needs/more-info

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13739 · 10 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026
clicking menu bar icon crashes the app Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13736 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 1, 2026
OBS Studio Freezes Up When Exiting Program When 1st Razer Kiyo Configure Video Screen Is Open Open

issue/confirmed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13724 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
AMD AMF H.264 applies an unexpected one-frame DTS offset when B-frames are disabled Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13723 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Source inside masked group cannot be resized without affecting mask. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13722 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Regression: Automatic Display Capture now selects DXGI instead of Windows Graphics Capture on Windows 10 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13719 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Opening Image Source Properties or changing image file causes rendering lag and skipped rendering frames on macOS (Apple Silicon) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13711 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
DeckLink Mini Recorder 4K Deep Fried HDR Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13705 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Crash when adding Display Capture on Snapdragon X (ARM64) - dxgi.dll exception c000001d Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13704 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 26, 2026
HDR live streaming does not support AV1 encoding Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13700 · Opened Jul 25, 2026
A closed custom browser dock reappears the next time OBS is launched Open

obsproject/obs-studio#13681 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 22, 2026
窗口采样无边框模式裁切问题 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13678 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Logging out of Twitch on every program close Open

platform/macos

obsproject/obs-studio#13675 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 20, 2026

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