Question / Help Adding .avi setting for Recording

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Hello all.
To make this short, I've been using Fraps to record for a long time (I know it's old, but it works well enough for simple stuff), and it outputs uncompressed .avi files. I see the appeal of OBS and I would definitely like to use it, but it outputs only compressed video as far as I can tell. I am definitely not a fan of compression during the recording process, as the performance goes down, and the formats it exports to are a headache to deal with during editing, so would it be feasible to add .avi for recording similar to Fraps, while having the great features of OBS at the same time?

Kind regards.

Edit: I just realized I posted this in the wrong section. Really sorry about that. If possible, can this be moved to the appropriate place?
 
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Theres 3 ways to record lossless in obs (copying the settings from german lets play forum)

For the avi one you need to install the utvideo codec on your system.

1. Video and Audio lossless, avi fileformat using utvideo codec. Only downside, you can only record one audiotrack.

Advanced output tab
then change the type to custom output FFmpeg
Container: AVI
Bitrate / keyframeinterval: as far as I know it doesnt change no matter what you choose, so you can leave both at 0.

Video codec:utvideo
Audiobitrate: I guess doesnt matter either.
Audiocodec: Pcm_s16le


2. x264 MKV or MP4 (lossless video, compressed / lossy audio)
Quality CRF
CRF 0 (1 if your encodingsoftware cant handle 0.
Keyframeinterval 1
ultrafast.

3. If you have a NVidia GPU i would recommend that one. Choose NVENC H264 (lossless video, compressed / lossy audio)
Lossless
Keyframeinterval 1 (?)
Standard
high444p
No 2 pass encoding
B-frames 0


Advanced tab settings:

If you are using x264 or nvenc = NV12 colorformat and 709 YUV colorspace
If you are using AVI ffmpeg = I420 colorformat and 709 yuv colorspace.
 
That is very interesting, thank you. I did not notice that before, and I'll try playing around with that.
My graphics card is not an NVidia card, no. I have an AMD R9 380. I have played around with the hardware H.264 encoder it has (AMD Advanced Media Framework).
A side note: I have the Lagarith video codec. Why doesn't that appear in the codec list? I am not seeing MagicYUV there either. I assume there is a reason for that.

Anyway, thanks again.
 
Very nice. I will test those settings when I can. By the way, is there an equivalent video encoder to choose that would be the same as "uncompressed" in some other program? I'd like to test that too if it has it.
 
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