On April 23 2013 11:10 R1CH wrote:
The preview shows the video before compression. Make sure your bitrate / settings are correct for local recording. See http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2972

Hey dude thanks! Worked first try :D

Gtoad

United States90 Posts

April 23 2013 13:44 GMT

#1442

On April 23 2013 12:13 Sovano wrote:

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Yup.
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Make sure you go to sources and set it to "game capture." Also make sure under settings you change under "broadcast settings", chnage the mode to "file output only."

Sovano

United States1503 Posts

April 23 2013 18:38 GMT

#1443

Okay so I was apparently wrong on that. Although I rectified it and set it to game capture, but now all I get is a pure black screen. This is seriously frustrating :/

Bentus

Germany86 Posts

April 23 2013 19:50 GMT

#1444

why is everyone in hear blessed with fast internet? tt

I am currently sitting on this:

[image loading]

and this is the best I can get.... How much upload is needed for a 720p stream, need to know this because it will be important when I will move to university proabably at the end of the year.

Cyro

United Kingdom20341 Posts

April 23 2013 20:01 GMT

#1445

You don't really "need" any upload, there's no threshold where it will work or it wont, but stable ~2.3mbits up is good (for say, 2mbit for stream, some overhead for game, any other online activity like skype, stream audio) and stable ~4.5mbits pretty much perfect

edit: If it wasn't obvious, you can make an ok quality stream with like 0.6-1mbit. These are just better numbers

crfty

United States174 Posts

April 23 2013 23:32 GMT

#1446

Not sure how to search within threads, so I will just ask myself:

Is there a SC2 scene switcher for OBS? I know R1CH made one for xsplit, not sure if that one works for all software. Or is there a way to set this up within OBS? I haven't really dived into the program too much.

Cocoabean

Canada90 Posts

April 25 2013 02:51 GMT

#1447

Out of curiosity, do people usually prefer watching 720p@60fps or 1080p@30fps?

I recently upgraded my internet to 100Mb down/10Mb up, and both are relatively smooth for me to play on.

netherDrake

Singapore1831 Posts

April 25 2013 05:32 GMT

#1448

How do I know if I'm running the 64-bit or 32-bit version (i want to run 64-bit)? There's only one download link on the website. (i assume default is 64-bit?)

Much appreciated

Cyro

United Kingdom20341 Posts

April 25 2013 08:27 GMT

#1449

Out of curiosity, do people usually prefer watching 720p@60fps or 1080p@30fps?

It's completely down to personal preference

One of the two (in xsplit gamesource, increasing FPS hurt a lot more than resolution) will give you better performance, you should benchmark both in a consistent way to see if the difference is big or important, but pick whatever you like the most.

What CPU is this, and overclock details if OC'd?

Cocoabean

Canada90 Posts

April 25 2013 08:38 GMT

#1450

On April 25 2013 17:27 Cyro wrote:

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3570k at stock clock speeds
GTX 670
8 GB RAM
100 dl / 5 ul internet

Cyro

United Kingdom20341 Posts

April 25 2013 09:32 GMT

#1451

If you OC CPU by 32% (easy low-mid tier oc of 4.5ghz) then you can have something like that ~32% higher average FPS in CPU bound area's of the game (pretty much anything more intensive than early midgame 1v1 and 40-45% higher minimum FPS, as well as having a ton more encoding power on the CPU, if i could use 3, 4 mbits for streaming i would do 1920x1080, 45fps with an OC like that, though you'd need a suitable motherboard and cooler

Dzerzhinsky

Scotland327 Posts

April 25 2013 15:28 GMT

#1452

When I'm streaming OBS quite often turns itself off. Sometimes this is a 'no limit' crash, and sometimes it's just as if I pressed 'stop' (but didn't). Any ideas why this might be happening?

Tokikong

35 Posts

April 25 2013 17:23 GMT

#1453

Hey Dudes,
when I'm trying to stream with OBS, it randomly tries reconnecting every 30 seconds. And the stream goes down and online again. Is having the same issues as me? Is there any solution for it?
Thanks

nMinhBang

Netherlands98 Posts

April 25 2013 20:27 GMT

#1454

Hi there!

I've been having problems with Game Capture, Apparently it would only work until I alt-tab out, and when I tab back in the screen would just show the latest image, but will just show my cursor moving around as well as the game sounds responding normally.
So right now I'm just using Window Capture to capture my gameplay, which is fine, but I'm just curious as to why this issue would happen =/

I've updated OBS, am using it in the 32bit variant on an 64bit system (which shouldn't be the cause, I think), reason for it being the SC2 Scene Switcher.

Here's the link to a VOD with the problem
http://www.twitch.tv/nminhbang/b/395178153?t=18m38s
After the game starts, the stream just shows the loading screen, though the cursor moves as I'm playing normally, and the game sounds behave normally as well.

And here's a VOD after I switched the Game Capture out for the Window Capture
http://www.twitch.tv/nminhbang/b/395190274?t=27m09s

So far, I'm not using a capture card, everything is powered by the OBS program.
Besides that, my specs are:

Intel 2600k @ 4.4ghz
GTX 660 TI
8GB RAM
94450 kb/s Download
75622 kb/s Upload

HomeWorld

Romania903 Posts

April 26 2013 05:22 GMT

#1455

@netherDrake : both 32bit and 64bit versions are included in installer, check the folder where you installed obs (or start menu->all programs->obs)
@nMinhBang: there is a problem with game capture in 0.50b, you can try current test version http://sourceforge.net/projects/obsproject/files/test versions/OBS_0_50_08_test.zip/download ,see if it helps.

2x2actionFOX

France59 Posts

April 26 2013 13:00 GMT

#1456

On April 26 2013 05:27 nMinhBang wrote:
I've been having problems with Game Capture, Apparently it would only work until I alt-tab out, and when I tab back in the screen would just show the latest image, but will just show my cursor moving around as well as the game sounds responding normally.

I guess you have 2 GPU right ?
Go in Settings/Video and switch between Video Adapter to test.
PS : 0.51b released

nMinhBang

Netherlands98 Posts

April 26 2013 14:13 GMT

#1457

On April 26 2013 22:00 2x2actionFOX wrote:

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I guess you have 2 GPU right ?
Go in Settings/Video and switch between Video Adapter to test.
PS : 0.51b released

Oddly, I don't have two GPU's =/, but it seems that there's something wrong with Game capture after all. ;p
Thanks anyways :D

TheFear

United States55 Posts

April 26 2013 16:27 GMT

#1458

Just wanted to briefly chime in and say this product is masterfully made, and I have been able to successfully stream at high res at 1200p+, very fun to see the stream look as good as if my client was still open. Impressed with the intuitiveness of set up coming from X-Split also. I figured it out within maybe 20 minutes and not really referring to any manuals online (I think one FAQ question solved the one issue I had).

Thanks to whoever made this for delivering such a quality and free product!

A+.

Alryk

United States2718 Posts

April 27 2013 14:50 GMT

#1459

So when I use window capture, it only captures the specific window and I can't get it to show anything else when I alt tab, even if I have multiple windows. I was told to use monitor capture, but that just shows a black screen? Does anybody know why?

(Brand new to streaming btw)

Edit: I have .51 beta, and I have no "Software capture" source. Just Window and Monitor.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

April 27 2013 20:49 GMT

#1460

Can anyone help me with my settings? I have a quad-core 4.0ghz Phenom II x4 365 and 10 upload, but I still can't stream without the game (whether it's dota 2 or something else lagging).

Anyone available to help em get the right settings?