Windows joins the party

Last time I posted about obs-radio-output, the honest caveat was that the Windows build loaded in OBS but couldn’t actually stream — libshout under MSVC was fighting me (#37).

It’s not fighting me anymore.

0.2.0-beta2 is the first Windows build that can actually stream. The full stack is there now — libshout with TLS, plus the MP3, Opus, and Vorbis encoders — all compiled and linked on Windows. Grab the windows-x64 zip, drop the obs-radio-output folder into %APPDATA%\obs-studio\plugins\, and you’ve got a native radio output in OBS on Windows.

One straight-up caveat, because that’s how I run these: I haven’t verified it end-to-end on real Windows hardware yet. It builds, it links, the code paths are all there — but “compiles” and “ran a live stream for an hour without dropping” are different claims, and I’m only making the first one. So this is a testing build. Mac (signed + notarized) and Linux are still the ones I’d point you to for real use.

If you’re on Windows and you stream from it — please kick the tires and tell me how it goes. There’s a feedback thread for exactly this; logs are gold. Bug reports are the whole point of a beta.

Still GPL-2.0, still a community plugin under Tech-Noid Systems, still not affiliated with the OBS Project. Three platforms now — one of them just needs you to help prove it. :)