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HamachiGO
Spain14 Posts
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Sayle
United Kingdom3685 Posts
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Insoleet
France1806 Posts
But with obs, i can stream in 480p (640*400) without any problem ! | ||
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vrok
Sweden2541 Posts
Major kudos to anyone involved in this project. Open source FTW. | ||
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Creager
Germany1920 Posts
Also cool forums on that website, will try out a few thing when I finally arrive at home later | ||
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quirinus
Croatia2489 Posts
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quirinus
Croatia2489 Posts
On February 13 2013 22:04 Sayle wrote: I tried using OBS but it lagged a lot more for me than using Xsplit with comparable settings. My upload speed is about 800-850kbps, so I set both streaming programs to use 650 and tried to stream 1280x960 at 25 fps. Xsplit handles this quite smoothly, only dropping some frames when I move the screen quickly while there's a lot of action. OBS just lags all the time, even when very little is happening on the screen, and I can see its bitrate counter thing spike up above 650 a lot of times. Any idea why OBS's performance is worse than Xsplit and whether I can fix this? You can try to turn on "Use CBR" aka use constant bit rate in the advanced settings, but this is not ideal. Seems like OBS has higher bitrate spikes, I've noticed this as well. Second, try to find out your real upload here: http://testmy.net/ Go to "Upload Test" in the menu, "Select Test Size" button, 33 MB and wait. This test is imo better than other tests because it tests upload on a bigger chunk of data, ie. continuous data stream, which has a big effect on the upload speed. Keep in mind that audio uses some bitrate too, imo you can set the microphone to mono, unless you have a really good one. I found OBS lags less for comparable qualities for me maybe it's some of the other settings you have, try putting it on veryfast x264 CPU preset speed (I've read in the forum that it's more optimized for that speed). Also maybe you should keep the Process Priority Class to Normal, that can cause problems as well. Windows Areo also affects it. I have: 10 quality, 25 FPS, 640x480, 340 bitrate & buffer, 96 bitrate mono sound, disabled Areo, priority normal, x264 CPU preset on veryfast, using software window capture, my upload is around 450, using 32 bit OBS Comp specs: AMD Athlon X2 dual core 4200+ on 2.2 GHz (crappy) 6 GB RAM NVidia GeForce 7900 GS (really crappy) I've got an SSD tho Max spikes I get are to like 500, and that's very rare, with no dropped frames, I think I can even increase the bitrate without dropping frames, but I don't need it. | ||
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masternook
United States66 Posts
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quirinus
Croatia2489 Posts
On February 17 2013 16:39 masternook wrote: It needs to show how many viewers are watching from the obs program, like xsplit That's going to be added soon. | ||
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Sayle
United Kingdom3685 Posts
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GreatFall
United States1061 Posts
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quirinus
Croatia2489 Posts
On February 18 2013 01:16 Sayle wrote: More importantly for me, it needs a video plugin. Even if I solve the lag issues, I can't use it if there's no easy way for me to play intro videos. This one is also high on the official priority list, so it should be added soon. | ||
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xxjcdentonxx
Canada163 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10341 Posts
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TaraBabcock
United States391 Posts
It's very unfortunate since I hate XSplit and all of its glitches and I looked forward to taxing my CPU less and streaming at an even higher quality. :-/ | ||
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Oldgrain
Finland165 Posts
On February 23 2013 09:04 xxjcdentonxx wrote: I'm still on XP because I read games have about 10% higher FPS than with 7. I'm not sure if that's still true, but I'm on old hardware, single core for example. I need all the efficiency I can get, so I'm still sticking to XP. Unfortunately, OBS isn't compatible with XP, and I confirmed with it's developer that it never will be as it uses things which are exclusive to 7. Could someone recommend the least resources intensive broadcasting software for XP? XSplit is unusable. I doubt you will be able to stream with a single core cpu. Streaming takes quite a lot of cpu power and a quad core processor is highly suggested. Even a really fast dual core will have trouble streaming and playing the game at the same time. | ||
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Creager
Germany1920 Posts
In short, I'm really loving it, it is easy to use. Thank you a lot for providing this awesome piece of software!!! Really appreciate it! | ||
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Gtoad
United States90 Posts
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Oldgrain
Finland165 Posts
On April 19 2013 22:57 Gtoad wrote: At work now...gonna dl this when I get home. Question though, can I use it to record my game play in a similar manner to fraps, then upload it to YouTube? Sorry for sounding so noobsauce.U_U There's an option to record to your local hdd so yes. | ||
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SlowBullets
United States839 Posts
Everything works except colors when the game starts (black screen, barely can see)...toggling off and on doesn't work. | ||
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