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The windows media foundation H264 encoders have been deprecated for over a year, and microsoft's media foundation AAC encoder has had a continued issue with occasional random audio glitches. The FFmpeg AAC encoder has had recent development, and is more than sufficient to be able to handle the task of encoding in terms of both quality and performance, so it's better just to use the FFmpeg encoder from here on out. As this plugin is no longer needed, for the next year or two it'll still be compiled and included, but as a blank plugin that does nothing. The reason why it's still being included as a blank no-operation plugin is to overwrite older versions of the plugin. That way if a user installs a newer OBS version over an older one, it won't load up the older win-mf plugin where the encoders still were enabled. This also fixes some rarely reported media foundation crashes that can happen on startup.
OBS Studio <https://obsproject.com> =================================== What is OBS Studio? ------------------- 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 - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details. Quick Links ----------- - Website: https://obsproject.com - Help/Documentation/Guides: https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/wiki - Forums: https://obsproject.com/forum/ - Build Instructions: https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/wiki/Install-Instructions - Developer/API Documentation: https://obsproject.com/docs - 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 wish to contribute code to the project, please make sure to read the coding and commit guidelines: https://github.com/jp9000/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.