What OBS Studio does
OBS Studio 32.2.2 is the recorded OBS Project hotfix release. Its download page specifies Windows 10/11 and macOS 13.0 or newer; the 32.2.x release notes explicitly exclude macOS 12 after a Qt update. This entry includes the Windows x64 installer, Apple-silicon and Intel macOS DMGs, and Ubuntu 24.04 x86-64 DEB. Windows ARM64 is supplied as an archive rather than the x64 installer, and other Linux distributions should follow OBS's current package guidance.
OBS composes scenes from display/window/camera/audio/browser and other sources for recording or streaming. Local recording can remain local, while streaming, browser sources that load remote URLs, service authentication, update checks, and remote-control integrations require network access. Encoders, containers, capture methods, and audio devices vary by platform, driver, GPU, and service; a compatible machine does not guarantee a chosen resolution, frame rate, scene, or encoder will run without dropped frames.
Third-party plug-ins execute inside OBS and can be specific to an OBS version, operating system, and architecture. They may make network requests or access capture data. Validate each plug-in and update path separately, especially before upgrading OBS. The recording format deserves a separate choice: OBS Hybrid MP4/MOV writes fragments and finalizes them for normal playback, so its documented recovery behavior differs from ordinary MP4/MOV. Chapter markers are written at finalization and are not recovered after a crash. Test both the target editor and an interrupted recording before relying on recovery.
The SHA-256 values below are official release-asset digests. No install, recording, stream, encoder benchmark, plug-in audit, browser-source capture, or failure-recovery test was performed.