Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio is a powerful and flexible screen recording and screencasting tool. The program includes real-time recording, broadcasting, and audio mixing and layouts. The "scene" system allows building custom input settings with numerous audio and video sources (multiple microphones, webcam, applications, screens etc.). Available filters allow for automatic, live filtering including crop, color correction, sharpen, chroma key, audio gain and more.
Cross-platform with versions available for Mac and Linux. Alternatively, PortableApps' OBS Portable is also available.
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Runs on: | Win10 / Win11 |
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Application folder. Note: At this time, files used within the scene collection (images, media) are not portable, even when in portable mode. If you plan on relocating the portable instance, you will need to either modify the scene collection JSON file manually, or use a generic path common on all your devices. |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
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Similar/alternative apps: | ShareX, Easy Screencast Recorder |
What's new? |
31.0 New Features
31.0 Changes
31.0 Bug Fixes
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Specular
on 2019-03-05 08:39
@vmars316 - I checked and OBS Studio is QT-based rather than Electron-based (though a different project called Streamlabs OBS is). I've updated the entry.
Yucca
on 2019-06-12 11:35
As of June 12, OBS version 23.2.0 is a release candidate and not the current stable version. The current stable version is 23.1.0. If you post a release candidate, that should be stated in the description so users can know what they are downloading.
rb161
on 2020-12-16 23:25
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My recently purchased webcam only works with one version of OBS so I'm unable to upgrade to use new features. I have always had problems playing any video except uncompressed and despite being able to play and edit just about any anything in other software on my PC. Other people have complained about the same issue (videos showing as a black screen) for years but the problem is never addressed by the developers. If you can work around issues such as these or are lucky enough not to be plagued by them, then OBS is nice, light software and recording and streaming work well. |
foobar2000 is an audio player with low memory footprint and native support for most popular audio formats. It includes CD ripping, format conversion, replay gain, audio normalization, equalization and more. Playlist display and keyboard shortcuts are both very customisable. Additional functionality available via a wide variety of plugins.
The program can edit song tags (album and song name, number, year etc.) based on the FreeDB Internet database and even rename the original songs based on these tags. A file format conversion tool is available, but must be enabled with external downloads. Can even fix some MP3s with corrupted file headers.
Windows 2000 users can download the last compatible version: 0.9.4.
Windows XP and Vista users, download last version from 1.5 series.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware |
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Similar/alternative apps: | 1by1, Boom, Winyl |
What's new? | See: https://foobar2000.org/changelog. |
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PAFuser
on 2023-04-26 15:52
64bit available on download page, see https://foobar.hyv.fi/2.0/?sort=modified&dir=r for 64bit components. 32bit will not work.
freakazoid
on 2023-06-10 00:59
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PSA: For older users, use the 32-bit version of v2.0 for now. |
XMedia Recode is an audio/video converter for most popular formats and includes handy profiles for popular mobile/tablet devices such as iPod, iPhone, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, LG etc. These profiles include file format, screen size and other details chosen specifically for a given player.
Support many formats.
Note: Back when FFMPEG's hall of shame for licensing issues still existed, this program was a member there due to this issue.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use |
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Default interface is German, to change to English:
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Similar/alternative apps: | Video to Video, QWinFF |
What's new? | See: https://xmedia-recode.de/en/version.php. |
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smaragdus
on 2016-07-02 14:44
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on 2021-06-03 17:06
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XMedia Recode ver. 3.5.3.7 (March 8, 2021): https://xmedia-recode.de/en/index.php |
HandBrake is a video encoder that supports a variety of formats, device profiles and filters. The program includes tools for both basic and advanced users, with multi-threaded compression, subtitles, chapters, and quality settings. The program can also process most file types, including DVD/BluRay sources without copy protection, and supports live static and video preview.
Only available for 64-bit machines. Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux.
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Runs on: | Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Microsoft .NET Framework 6.0+ |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
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Similar/alternative apps: | XMedia Recode, Free Audio Video Pack |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/releases |
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Midas
on 2022-01-16 10:11
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As the latest HandBrake version (v1.5.1) is only fully compatible with Windows 10 and newer, be aware old releases are archived and available at https://handbrake.fr/old.php. |
Free Batch Music Splitter is a tool to split audio files into several parts or parts with a specified length. The program can do several splitting jobs at once. It will also add folders and subfolders, maintaining output folder structure.
Funcitonal with MP3, AAC, WAV, WAVPACK, OGG, OPUS, FLAC, ALAC, M4B and M4A files.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Apache 2 |
How to extract: | Download the portable 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FreeBatchMusicSplitter.exe. |
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The Levelator is an easy-to-use audio optimization tool that fixes volume inconsistencies for WAV or AIFF files. Developed specifically for podcast voice and music recordings, it ensures a consistent volume level using both gain optimization and RMS normalization.
Works via drag-and-drop and supports batch operations (dragging multiple files). Clients available for Linux and OSX.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
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webfork
on 2015-02-26 23:38
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Great program. Using it more and more for various voice audio recordings. |
RolloSONIC is a modular sound-synthesis environment with mouse-guided tweaking and real-time module interconnection. Automated control channel duplexing, a variable-bandwidth control pipe, and multi-device euphony support various possibilities. Like the great module racks historically used in making sound effects for science-fiction movies, RolloSONIC lets you add and connect audio-processing modules together, where the sound is playing the entire time so that changes to the interconnections and changes to the sliders are heard immediately -- just like with the real thing.
The program takes the idea to the next level by letting you incorporate your mouse movement into the control channels. Optionally, you can also incorporate your USB or MIDI (musical) keyboard controller and its knobs and sliders into the mix of control data.
The existing introduction video is highly recommended.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder, unless run from the %PROGRAMFILES% folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download RolloSONICv[version number].exe to a folder of your choice (except %PROGRAMFILES%) and launch. |
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RolloSONIC
on 2014-03-11 03:27
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This new version has optional real-time modular output indicators, minimisability for modules, eleven glitches removed, several changes in usability and appearance, UAC (User Access Control) awareness for proper compatibility with Windows Vista and higher, and extensive internal changes to the module subsystem. |