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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27340 Posts
March 23 2013 05:55 GMT
#1341
The game is 1024x768, 1280x1024 is my baseline monitor resolution that I use for everything else. Exporting in either of these ratios still gives me the big bars, but I'm on my gaming PC now.

I have options to 'fit to screen' as well as 'ignore aspect ratio' when I do that, so I'll get tweaking things at my end and see if those work, and if not return here. Cheers for the responses thus far.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20343 Posts
March 23 2013 06:45 GMT
#1342
If you run the game at 1280x1024 and encode at 1280x1024 you still get black bars?

It seems most likely that you are just trying to encode at 1280x1024 or some multiplier down from there (OBS will do that by default..) or messing something up either capturing black bars that are already there, or adding them in with aspect ratio confusion from running 2 different aspect ratios at the same time, etc
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Kayn_
Profile Joined August 2011
12 Posts
March 23 2013 06:55 GMT
#1343
I have been using OBS for while now and have been streaming a lot more now. I like to listen to music when I play games but I don't want to risk playing copyrighted music on my stream. Is ther anyway to have my music playing but not heard on the stream and can still hear my skype chat and in game sounds?
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20343 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-23 07:02:33
March 23 2013 07:02 GMT
#1344
Virtual audio cable, it's pretty complicated though

Nobody is going to freak out if you play copyrighted music on stream, as far as i know, unless you have thousands of viewers like day9 or something
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27340 Posts
March 23 2013 07:04 GMT
#1345
On March 23 2013 15:45 Cyro wrote:
If you run the game at 1280x1024 and encode at 1280x1024 you still get black bars?

It seems most likely that you are just trying to encode at 1280x1024 or some multiplier down from there (OBS will do that by default..) or messing something up either capturing black bars that are already there, or adding them in with aspect ratio confusion from running 2 different aspect ratios at the same time, etc

Yeah I'll have a look at everything. I've totally wiped my settings anyway, which I figured from before I found this thread and will re-set it up given that I have found this thread in the interim.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
mollehehe
Profile Joined March 2013
1 Post
March 23 2013 14:30 GMT
#1346
How to just play music on the stream with no other sound than just the music?

Maybe a retarded question, but i just started out.

TY!
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66364 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-25 12:54:33
March 25 2013 12:53 GMT
#1347
Eh my stream gets lots of static noise :< how to i remove this

edit: nvm now it doesnt exist o_O
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TheBloodyDwarf
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
Finland7524 Posts
March 27 2013 15:29 GMT
#1348
How you can use this in other games or can you?

For example in BF3 or GTAIV? Software get sounds but no video.
Fusilero: "I still can't believe he did that, like dude what the fuck there's fandom and then there's what he did like holy shit. I still see it when I close my eyes." <- reaction to the original drunk santa post which later caught on
RoieTRS
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States2569 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-28 01:51:30
March 28 2013 01:50 GMT
#1349
nvm sry
konadora, in Racenilatr's blog: "you need to stop thinking about starcraft or anything computer-related for that matter. It's becoming a bad addiction imo"
slickest
Profile Joined April 2011
United States5 Posts
March 28 2013 20:10 GMT
#1350
I am trying to stream Battlefield (and other games) but I always seem to run into some problem. There are a few games that I was able to stream pretty well, (Dead Space 3, Starcraft 2) but I am not faring to well with a few others.

I am trying to stream Bioshock Infinite on 1999 mode, and Battlefield 3. Right now, my fps in game is too low even on low settings, and my fps on stream is not good either, and choppy. I am wondering if anyone would be willing to work with my a little bit to try to get my stream to optimal using OBS. Here is what I am working with:

Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor, 3400 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
8MB Ram
Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti Fermi

[image loading]

If you need anymore information let me know. Currently I have my settings set at a quality of 8, 1300/1300, and 50 fps. Just kinda put things wherever. Any help is appreciated.
You aint nobody
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20343 Posts
March 28 2013 20:15 GMT
#1351
What resolution is that for stream? Should probably cut FPS before anything else, changing quality/bitrate wont help you if you have them at stable settings
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
slickest
Profile Joined April 2011
United States5 Posts
March 28 2013 20:21 GMT
#1352
My stream is at 1600x900.

Thanks for the quick response btw
You aint nobody
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20343 Posts
March 28 2013 20:51 GMT
#1353
You'll be using far too much CPU, a stock x4 965 is somewhere around half as powerful as an overclocked i5, just run something like 20fps or resolution downscale 1.5 and 40fps if you want to cut CPU usage down to reasonable levels
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
slickest
Profile Joined April 2011
United States5 Posts
March 28 2013 20:58 GMT
#1354
I could try overclocking my CPU? I know a little bit about how to do it.
You aint nobody
slickest
Profile Joined April 2011
United States5 Posts
March 28 2013 20:59 GMT
#1355
Some games are fine... why is that?
You aint nobody
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20343 Posts
March 28 2013 21:21 GMT
#1356
SC2 has CPU usage that looks like this [image loading] so the CPU is mostly unloaded, even though performance is cpu-bottlenecked (because of that 1 core near max)

BF3 is an example of a game that will load many cores pretty heavily, so there's much less room for encoding, and encoding a first person camera is more difficult than something like sc2, you can't really have solid 1600x900 50fps on a phenom II x4 regardless of what you do or what game you play, you would be missing frames all the time etc.

You can OC if you want to gain like 400mhz or something, i dont think you can push phenom II very far and it won't redefine performance, only help a little - probably not even enough to be noticeable in a blind test.

I mean if you can overclock 3.4ghz to 4ghz (and as far as i know, that's at least a pretty big "If"..) then you gained 600mhz. Compared to a 3570k - where a higher end overclock is 3.4 to 4.8ghz (a much bigger gain) and 4.4, 4.5ghz is really easy.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
slickest
Profile Joined April 2011
United States5 Posts
March 29 2013 00:16 GMT
#1357
Doing what you said (downscaling) actually helped a lot with the fps. Now I just have to try to make it look better. I guess bitrate?
You aint nobody
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20343 Posts
March 29 2013 00:20 GMT
#1358
Yea
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Onioncookie
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany624 Posts
March 29 2013 13:09 GMT
#1359
What is actually the difference between game capture and screen capture? Any pros and cons?
z0rz
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States350 Posts
March 29 2013 18:15 GMT
#1360
There's probably more to be said, but this is off the top of my head:

Game Capture

Pros:
-Better overall performance than Screen Capture
-Can capture games in Fullscreen mode
-"Privacy" when minimizing (viewers will ONLY see the specified game unless you use a scene switcher plugin or manually switch scenes-- they will not see your desktop if you minimize)

Cons:
-Can't stream your desktop without switching scenes (sucks if you randomly want to show your viewers a YouTube video or something)
-Probably not compatible with EVERY game, but I personally haven't had any problems
-I don't think Game Capture picks up anything from the Steam Overlay (shift+tab). I was trolling some guy as he tried to scam me in a TF2 trade and my viewers had no clue what was happening haha

Screen Capture

Pros:
-Hard to explain, but Screen Capture is more "flexible" than Game Capture. You will be able to capture and stream anything on your screen as long as it's not Fullscreen, so you can layer your windows to stream yourself playing Minesweeper with Pandora open in one corner and your chat in the other corner and your viewers will see everything.

Cons:
-Can only capture Windowed/Borderless games (no Fullscreen)
-Not the best performance (apparently it's a lot better in Windows 8?)
-Your viewers will see EVERYTHING on your monitor, which could lead to some embarrassing moments
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