OBS 26.1 is out!
Added 2020-12-16 21:45:42 +0000 UTC26.1 is good to go! Although it's technically a minor patch, I'd still consider it a fairly big update:
- We added the virtual camera to both Linux and macOS
- We added the VOD audio track feature for Twitch at their request and with their assistance which adds options for separate audio mixing and encoding for your VOD
- We've updated almost all of our dependencies on Windows
- And a bunch of other small features and tweaks
Updating dependencies on Windows means that third-party libraries we rely on, especially x264, have been updated to their latest version. What this means is people who use software encoding should have a bit of a performance boost; x264 in particular should have a relatively modest performance boost because it's been a number of versions since we've updated it on WIndows.
FFmpeg is still one minor version behind (4.2.4) due to a bug we're experiencing in 4.3.x, but that will likely be resolved eventually. For CEF, the backend of the browser source, it's still quite a bit behind on 3770; it's the biggest and most complicated dependency, so updating it takes a lot of time and effort, especially due to an optimization patch we need for it (texture sharing). Expect to see CEF hopefully updated in the next major/minor version or so.
We really hope you enjoy the patch and find it useful. Thank you very much for all the support!
The full list of changes and downloads can be seen here:
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/26.1.0
