Changelog:
24.0.5 Hotfix Changes
Fixed macOS Catalina issues
Fixed macOS Python scripting support
Fixed a bug where audio bitrate would not be properly set to the specified value in simple output mode
Fixed a bug where videos on loop could sometimes get frozen when switching scenes
Fixed a bug with Linux Display Capture where the crop value would shift the cursor's captured position incorrectly
Fixed an issue where if the video drivers crashed on Windows for whatever reason, OBS would not recover from that properly and also crash (yes you heard that correctly)
Fixed an issue where when connecting to your Twitch account fails because of Twitch's two-factor authentication requirement, you would not be able to change to another Twitch account until authentication was fixed and the account was reconnected
Fixed an issue where when connecting your Twitch account for the first time, the panels would not open up in dark mode
Fixed an issue where preview projector stopped working when toggling studio mode
Fixed an issue where multiple 0x0 windows would appear on Linux Window Capture
Fixed an issue where certain windows would not be listed with Linux Window Capture
Fixed a few rare crashes
You can now use Twitch dashboard panel URLs as custom browser docks
Added some additional graphics and audio diagnostic logging
24.0.3 Hotfix
Fixed a startup crash on the 32bit version of OBS
Fixed an issue where audio monitoring on Windows would have a bit of unintended latency introduced by 24.0.2
24.0.1 Hotfix
Browser sources will now have their pre-24.0 audio behavior by default; to use OBS to control the browser source audio, users must now use the "Control Audio via OBS" option in the browser source properties. This change was made as a safety precaution because it changed user configurations compared with how the browser audio used to function, which confused some users.
Fixed an issue where certain cameras (particularly C920 cameras) would output with a lot of delay depending on the drivers installed
Fixed a crash on startup
Fixed a crash that would happen when closing the Mixer chat window
24.0 New Features
Added the ability to pause while recording to allow seamless on-the-fly removal of video segments. This can only be used when not sharing an encoder with the stream. [Jim]
Added an option to automatically adjust bitrate when congestion occurs to advanced settings, which is an alternative to dropping frames (available in advanced settings). Note that this currently only works with RTMP, and severe congestion may cause increased delay to viewers. [Jim/pkv]
Added the ability to select multiple sources on the preview by box selection [Dillon]
Added the ability to create custom browser docks in the View -> Docks menu. This allows you to open extra dockable webpages whenever OBS opens [Jim]
Browser sources can now have their volume adjusted via the audio mixer, or have filters applied to them. Additionally, you can now change whether the browser source outputs to speakers or to stream only via the audio monitoring settings in advanced audio properties. [Osiris/pkv/Jim]
Added a script to pause recording when a specific scene is active [cg2121]
Added a "Hotkey Focus Behavior" option to advanced settings, which allows you to set whether hotkeys are disabled depending on whether you have the main window in focus or not [jb-alvarado/Jim]
Added an option to general settings to allow users to confirm when clicking the "Stop Recording" button [glikely]
Added channels widget for restream.io service integration [SoftwareArchitector]
Added the "Area" shader as a downscale shader in video settings [jpark37]
Added an "Enable Preview" button to the main window when the preview is disabled [cg2121]
Added (or rather fixed) hardware acceleration support for decoding media files when using the media source where applicable [Jim]
24.0 Tweaks/Fixes
Updated all dependencies on Windows (such as FFmpeg, x264, CEF) to their latest versions [Jim]
Made a number of optimizations and performance improvements [jpark37]
Made a number of performance improvements to QSV [brittneysclark]
Changed default recording format to mkv instead of flv [WizardCM]
Recording now automatically stop if there is less than 50 megabytes left of disk space available [cg2121]
Fixed a number of issues with Linux window capture [kkartaltepe]
Fixed the tray icon showing up on startup even when it was turned off [Jim]
Fixed a bug where encoders could lock up when an encode call fails [Jim]
Fixed an issue where projectors would have a gray background rather than a black background [Jim]
Fixed a bug where secondary Twitch/Mixer browser panels would stop appearing [Jim]
Fixed a freeze that could happen under rare circumstances when shutting down [Jim]
If no tracks are selected when recording in advanced output mode, it will now default to the same track being used for streaming [cg2121]
