OBS Studio 31.1.0 is a major update that brings multitrack video support to Linux and macOS users. This release improves the recording workflow and adds new encoding options, making it one of the most powerful versions yet.
After more than a month of Beta and RC testing, OBS Studio 31.1.0 finally officially released today!
The new release of this popular free open-source live streaming and screen recording software added many new features, various improvements, and dozens of bug-fixes.
OBS Studio introduced multi-track video support since version 30.2. It’s a feature allowing to steam multiple video qualities (e.g, 720p, 1080p, 2k and 4k) directly from the software.
The feature was only available for Windows users. Now, in the new 31.1.0 release, it has been extended to also work in Linux, as well as macOS on ARM (Apple Silicon).
For Windows, the release added initial support for Windows on ARM devices. Though the current ARM builds for Windows are NOT full featured and should be considered experimental.
For Linux, it added hardware accelerated browser source, though this feature is disabled so far on NVIDIA GPUs due to inconsistencies across model series and driver series.
Besides platform specific changes, the release also added Stream Delay, network optimizations and TCP Pacing to Multitrack Video, as well as additional canvases for Multitrack Video output.
Other changes include:
The source tarball, installer for Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu 24.04, are available to download at the link below along with the release note:
For Ubuntu 24.04 and Linux Mint 22, simply click download the .deb package, then click open with either App Center or package installer then install.
Other Ubuntu releases may open App Center or Ubuntu Software, then search & install OBS Snap package, though it’s Unofficial and NOT updated at the moment of writing.
And, most Linux may install the official Flatpak package (not updated at the moment, check the link) which runs in sandbox environment.
Linux Mint and Fedora (with 3rd party repository enabled) user may search & install the flatpak package from either Software Manager or GNOME Software.
With OBS Studio 31.1.0, streamers and video creators using open-source platforms like Ubuntu or macOS can now take advantage of a full multitrack environment.
For more history of OBS multitrack updates, check out our [post on OBS Studio 30.2’s NVENC encoder and multitrack streaming].
While all current Ubuntu releases, may run the 2 commands below one by one to install it:
If you’ve already install the package, try flatpak update com.obsproject.Studio command to check updates.
After installed the app package, either start it from app launcher (may need log out and back in) or run command to start from terminal:
flatpak run com.obsproject.Studio
To uninstall the flatpak package, open terminal and run command:
flatpak uninstall --delete-data com.obsproject.Studio
You may also run flatpak uninstall --unused to remove useless run-times to free up some disk space.
For the deb package, run the command below instead to uninstall:
sudo apt remove obs-studio
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