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@Cyro
Yeah, apparently my reading comprehension is as bad as my tech skills. I took your advice and improved some of my in game graphic settings and tested a couple of options (both at 1200/1200 bit/buffer).
1280x720 and raising fps to 60:
http://www.twitch.tv/laus_deo/b/347407959
1920x1080 @ 20fps:
http://www.twitch.tv/laus_deo/b/347411165
Any opinions on which is more appealing would be greatly appreciated. Personally, I can't really tell that much of a difference.
Big thanks to OBS_Jim for the fix on dx error and much <3 to Cyro for all of the time and help getting this set up. Greatly appreciated, both of you.
+ Show Spoiler +and you too GTR for making the thread 
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Thanks, and i like both options really. Its about perference, not which is best, and you should probably try out 960x540@60fps to see how it looks (with bitrate limits, less pixelation etc than higher resolutions)
here's size comparison between resolutions, because some people find it difficult to think on nonlinear scale and its misunderstood a lot:
16 : 9 - 360p (640x360) 1x
540p (960x540) 2.25x
720p (1280x720) 4x
1080p (1920x1080), 9x
The scaling looks pretty small from standard terms but is actually massive and by running @540p instead of 720 as an option you can have almost twice the ratio of bits avalible to pixel count in each frame which can change how the video looks a lot, even if it's lower resolution. If anything you would probably have more consistent quality (if you want that) because you can eliminate a lot of the pixelation/artifacts etc in the video that show up when too much is going on and the bitrate is too low to keep up with it at a good quality at higher resolutions.
Keep in mind this scaling also applies pretty directly for CPU load encoding at the same framerate (which is a factor for many weaker CPU's)
There's some other stuff going for 540p aswell that make it a great option, il go into some other time
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Hey guys I'm a complete noob when it comes to streaming, I'm having an issue where my stream stutters for a few seconds then resumes playing.
You can see it in this video here. http://www.twitch.tv/az0r_au/b/347511536
The game I'm playing is very CPU intense but my fps doesn't drop below 25 at all so I don't think it's that and I have 10Mb upload so I'm not sure what's causing it.
My settings are: 720p @ 25fps, 3000/3000, Quality Balance 10, using the San Diego server.
System specs: i5-3570k @ 4.6ghz, HD7970, 8gb ram, 10mbit upload.
Speed test to SD below
![[image loading]](http://www.speedtest.net/result/2368606918.png)
Local test below
![[image loading]](http://www.speedtest.net/result/2368757310.png)
I've tried dropping down as low as 700/700 and other than it looking like a pixelated mess it hasn't stopped the issue. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
*edit* After talking to a friend, we seem to think that my CPU is causing this. What settings should I be looking at to change this? Quality Balance?
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I can't figure out why the quality on my stream isn't as good as xsplit with OBS. Im limited to a 2Mbit upload in my apt but xsplit continually looks better and smoother even when im limited to their free version over OBS.
I'm running 720p/25 @ fast or medium on xsplit at 1900/1900 on xsplit
i've tried a ton of different settings on obs but cant find something to work out well
my specs
Processor: Intel Core i7 980x 4.4Ghz Overclock
Graphics Card: nVidia GTX 670 2Gb x2 SLI
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16Gb 1600
SSD: 128Gb crucial M4
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Hey everyone I'm using OBS with exactly the same settings as with X-Split 720p 30 fps 1100 bitrate (yeah its low but i only have 1.5 upload). But with OBS I get choppiness and the get a lot of "Stalls" when I'm playing SC2 that I don't get with x-split. Also, my webcam doesn't show up a lot of the time with OBS and I have to remake it.
Any ideas?
edit: figured out the webcam problem
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United Kingdom20338 Posts
On December 14 2012 11:48 mrgoochio wrote:
I can't figure out why the quality on my stream isn't as good as xsplit with OBS. Im limited to a 2Mbit upload in my apt but xsplit continually looks better and smoother even when im limited to their free version over OBS.
I'm running 720p/25 @ fast or medium on xsplit at 1900/1900 on xsplit
i've tried a ton of different settings on obs but cant find something to work out well
my specs
Processor: Intel Core i7 980x 4.4Ghz Overclock
Graphics Card: nVidia GTX 670 2Gb x2 SLI
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16Gb 1600
SSD: 128Gb crucial M4
Ive had trouble with the ratecontrol in OBS, it might be related to that. Run through a couple minute block in the same replay with as close settings as you can get, and check the file sizes afterwards, shot in the dark though
On December 14 2012 14:17 aHaTsc wrote:
Hey everyone I'm using OBS with exactly the same settings as with X-Split 720p 30 fps 1100 bitrate (yeah its low but i only have 1.5 upload). But with OBS I get choppiness and the get a lot of "Stalls" when I'm playing SC2 that I don't get with x-split. Also, my webcam doesn't show up a lot of the time with OBS and I have to remake it.
Any ideas?
edit: figured out the webcam problem
Check your buffer size, might be too high
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I'm decently tech savvy, but I have never even ATTEMPTED streaming before. Downloaded, booted, tweaked a few settings and worked right away. So easy to understand, great program overall, thank you!!
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How are you supose to update the client ?
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On December 16 2012 20:24 desRow wrote:
How are you supose to update the client ?
Delete the old one, download new one. Until the automatic update is there.
All the settings are saved in AppData so you dont lose anything when deleting.
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On December 16 2012 20:32 Flaiker wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2012 20:24 desRow wrote:
How are you supose to update the client ? Delete the old one, download new one. Until the automatic update is there. All the settings are saved in AppData so you dont lose anything when deleting.
Thanks so much ^^ <3
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Desrow, xsplit crashes pissed you off? ;P
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Please don't make this thread into a fan club, there are ways in which you can talk with desrow but here is not the right place.
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So I tried using this yesterady, worked flawlessly until about the 40 minute mark of my stream, where it crashed. I restarted the program, streamed again, worked flawlessly again until about the 40 minute mark, where it went down again. I felt nothing while actually playing, but when I alt-tabbed my chat was telling me it was down. Can someone help me with this problem or think of any explanation?
Thanks!
-Alex
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Did you receive any error when it crashed?
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Well the program itself didn't actually crash, the stream was just down is what I meant, at which point I restarted the program and started streaming again.
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What's your upload and bitrate?
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On December 17 2012 05:16 ROOTAxeltoss wrote:
So I tried using this yesterady, worked flawlessly until about the 40 minute mark of my stream, where it crashed. I restarted the program, streamed again, worked flawlessly again until about the 40 minute mark, where it went down again. I felt nothing while actually playing, but when I alt-tabbed my chat was telling me it was down. Can someone help me with this problem or think of any explanation?
Thanks!
-Alex
My stream has crashed randomly sometimes too not sure why ^^
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In the last week or so, whenever I stream Dota 2, I randomly get fps drops. Every 10-15 seconds, I'll suddenly have my fps drop from around 60-70 to 5-10 for about 2 seconds before it returns to 60-70 fps. It seems to only be when I'm actively streaming; simply running 'Preview stream' doesn't seem to start it.
Any ideas? This is getting quite annoying. I don't think I've changed anything on my computer or in my OBS settings so I'm not sure what has started this.
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is anyone using the game capture method on obs? I believe you have to set it to fullscreen and use the 32bit version. However, when I use this I only see a black screen and my mouse cursor. Anybody tried this and had a similar error?
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