OBS Studio is the backbone of live streaming, recording and capture for millions of people. It deserves an open, engineering-led home where a fix is judged by whether it fixes the bug.
OBS-Rust starts from the real OBS codebase and its Git history, and brings Rust into it gradually — replacing the parts that break, keeping the capabilities that make OBS useful.
This began as a patch to fix a crash. Upstream closed the pull request and banned the author from the org, because the fix came from an AI.
That is not a technical standard. So we forked — same source, same licenses, same credit to the OBS contributors — and we publish our work in the open, with the receipts.
The fork. OBS Studio with the problems fixed — CI, crash fixes, and the patch queue that started all of this.
View repo →The Rust implementation track: new modules, safe wrappers and the port path for the C/C++ core.
View repo →Free, open-source OBS alternative for Apple silicon: every source recorded as its own file, about half the CPU, CLI and MCP control.
View repo →Smoke tests that launch OBS Studio on Windows, macOS and Linux and publish the screenshots as evidence.
View repo →Prebuilt glibc 2.28 build dependencies — Qt 6, FFmpeg + codecs, PipeWire — served as release assets for the Linux AppImage.
View repo →Logos, icons, badges and the style guide every obs-rust repository draws from. The face on this page.
View repo →| Upstream component | Language today | Rust track | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| OBS Studio | C / C++ | obs-studio-rs | in progress |
| OBS Browser | C++ / CEF | — | not started |
| OBS WebSocket | C++ | — | not started |
| OBS Dependencies | build scripts | — | not started |
| Plugin Template | C++ | — | not started |
| FFmpeg | C | — | not started |
Repositories currently preserve the original OBS source and Git history. The Rust work is ahead of us, and it happens in public — every claim traceable to a commit, a test, or a screenshot.
Every upstream bug we are tracking, ranked — who is fixing it, and whether it is fixed.
Open leaderboard →The film: what happened when an AI-authored crash fix was closed and its author banned — and the pipeline that labels every bug.
Watch →Equal use for everyone, no test of belief, judged by the work. It supersedes every other document in the org.
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