obs-studio

OBS Studio
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:alt: OBS Studio Translation Project Progress
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:alt: OBS Studio Discord Server
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What is OBS Studio?
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OBS Studio is software designed for capturing, compositing, encoding,
recording, and streaming video content, efficiently.

It's distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 (or any later
version) - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details.

Quick Links
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- Website: https://obsproject.com

- Help/Documentation/Guides: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki

- Forums: https://obsproject.com/forum/

- Build Instructions: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/wiki/Install-Instructions

- Developer/API Documentation: https://obsproject.com/docs

- Donating/backing/sponsoring: https://obsproject.com/contribute

- Bug Tracker: https://obsproject.com/mantis/

(Note: The bug tracker is linked to forum accounts. To use the bug
tracker, log in to a forum account)

Contributing
------------

- If you would like to help fund or sponsor the project, you can do so
via `Patreon `_, `OpenCollective
`_, or `PayPal
`_. See our `contribute page
`_ for more information.

- If you wish to contribute code to the project, please make sure to
read the coding and commit guidelines:
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst

- Developer/API documentation can be found here:
https://obsproject.com/docs

- If you wish to contribute translations, do not submit pull requests.
Instead, please use Crowdin. For more information read this thread:
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-contribute-translations-for-obs.16327/

- Other ways to contribute are by helping people out with support on
our forums or in our community chat. Please limit support to topics
you fully understand -- bad advice is worse than no advice. When it
comes to something that you don't fully know or understand, please
defer to the official help or official channels.