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The browser and the video playback (including audio and page content) should continue running smoothly and remain fully responsive. Resizing the browser window, bringing it to the foreground, or interacting with it while OBS is capturing the window or the display should not cause the browser's rendering process to freeze or hang.
Current Behavior
When OBS is running (it does not need to be actively recording or streaming) and capturing a Chromium-based browser (Brave or Chrome) via Window Capture or full Display Capture, the video image in the browser occasionally freezes. This issue occurs across various video platforms but is most easily reproduced when playing YouTube videos. The freezing doesn't happen every time, but rather randomly when the browser window is resized or brought to the foreground during video playback.
As soon as the image freezes, the audio continues to play normally for a few seconds before the sound also stops. The browser then remains completely frozen. This state lasts for a random duration (often 20 to 30 seconds, sometimes longer). After that, the issue sometimes resolves itself, or an immediate recovery can be forced by interacting with the window.
It could also be a simple browser bug.
Steps to Reproduce
Open Brave or Chrome and play a video on YouTube.
Keep OBS running in the background and capture either the browser window ("Window Capture") or the entire monitor ("Display Capture").
Resize the browser window or bring it to the foreground.
The YouTube video and page content visually freeze at some point.
The audio continues for a bit and then stops as well.
2026-06-13.12_7.mp4
Anything else we should know?
How to resolve the freeze:
Automatically: If you wait, the freeze resolves itself after a random amount of time (20 to 30 seconds or more).
Manually (immediate): The frozen image and audio immediately resume if you perform one of the following actions:
Slightly resize the browser window back and forth.
Minimize the browser and immediately maximize it again.
Bring any other program window to the foreground.
Successful Workarounds (What prevents the issue permanently):
The issue does not occur at all in the following scenarios:
Browser Setting (D3D9): If you set the Choose ANGLE graphics backend option to D3D9 in the browser flags (brave://flags or chrome://flags), nothing freezes anymore.
Different Source in OBS: If OBS captures a different window (e.g., a completely different program or another browser window where no video is currently playing), the video in the original browser plays flawlessly. The error only happens when exactly the browser (or the screen with this browser) that is playing the video is captured.
System Information:
OS: Windows 11 Pro (Build 26200.8655 / Version 25H2)
CPU: Intel Core i5-9600K
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5060 (GPU usage is very low at approx. 20% when the freeze occurs)
Operating System Info
Windows 11
Other OS
No response
OBS Studio Version
32.1.2
OBS Studio Version (Other)
No response
OBS Studio Log URL
https://obsproject.com/logs/OZsZAifP2igbqLIX
OBS Studio Crash Log URL
No response
Expected Behavior
The browser and the video playback (including audio and page content) should continue running smoothly and remain fully responsive. Resizing the browser window, bringing it to the foreground, or interacting with it while OBS is capturing the window or the display should not cause the browser's rendering process to freeze or hang.
Current Behavior
When OBS is running (it does not need to be actively recording or streaming) and capturing a Chromium-based browser (Brave or Chrome) via Window Capture or full Display Capture, the video image in the browser occasionally freezes. This issue occurs across various video platforms but is most easily reproduced when playing YouTube videos. The freezing doesn't happen every time, but rather randomly when the browser window is resized or brought to the foreground during video playback.
As soon as the image freezes, the audio continues to play normally for a few seconds before the sound also stops. The browser then remains completely frozen. This state lasts for a random duration (often 20 to 30 seconds, sometimes longer). After that, the issue sometimes resolves itself, or an immediate recovery can be forced by interacting with the window.
It could also be a simple browser bug.
Steps to Reproduce
Open Brave or Chrome and play a video on YouTube.
Keep OBS running in the background and capture either the browser window ("Window Capture") or the entire monitor ("Display Capture").
Resize the browser window or bring it to the foreground.
The YouTube video and page content visually freeze at some point.
The audio continues for a bit and then stops as well.
2026-06-13.12_7.mp4
Anything else we should know?
How to resolve the freeze:
Automatically: If you wait, the freeze resolves itself after a random amount of time (20 to 30 seconds or more).
Manually (immediate): The frozen image and audio immediately resume if you perform one of the following actions:
Slightly resize the browser window back and forth.
Minimize the browser and immediately maximize it again.
Bring any other program window to the foreground.
Successful Workarounds (What prevents the issue permanently):
The issue does not occur at all in the following scenarios:
Browser Setting (D3D9): If you set the Choose ANGLE graphics backend option to D3D9 in the browser flags (brave://flags or chrome://flags), nothing freezes anymore.
Different Source in OBS: If OBS captures a different window (e.g., a completely different program or another browser window where no video is currently playing), the video in the original browser plays flawlessly. The error only happens when exactly the browser (or the screen with this browser) that is playing the video is captured.
System Information:
OS: Windows 11 Pro (Build 26200.8655 / Version 25H2)
CPU: Intel Core i5-9600K
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5060 (GPU usage is very low at approx. 20% when the freeze occurs)
Browser: Brave / Chrome (Chromium-based)