OBS Studio
Official website • Support link
OBS is a free and open-source software "designed for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content, efficiently". OBS is cross platform and incredibly popular which leads it to be well documented.- Overview
- Specifications
Basic information
Developer: Jim and OBS Studio Contributors
Website: https://obsproject.com/
Protocol: Hosts audio/video streaming
OS Supported: Cross-platform
Pricing: Free
Requires sign-up?: No
Detailed information
Features:
Self-hosted?: Yes
Recommended net-speed: Varies by use-case
Required net-speed: Varies by use-case
Max quality: Varies by use-case
Latency (estimate): Varies by use-case
Last update: Recently updated
Open source?: Yes
Overview of technical specifications
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer: | Jim and OBS Studio Contributors |
| Protocol: | Hosts audio/video streaming |
| OS Supported: | Cross-platform |
| Features: | |
| Self-hosted?: | Yes |
| Recommended net-speed: | Varies by use-case |
| Required net-speed: | Varies by use-case |
| Max quality: | Varies by use-case |
| Latency (estimate): | Varies by use-case |
| Last update: | Recently updated |
Ease of use
OBS is the gold standard of open-source software and likely the most popular utility for hosting audio/video streams online. It is quite easy to use but is also incredibly extendible for advanced usage.