Question / Help Aero window capture

[l337g0g0]

I had it working then the thing crashed when i tried game capture. i can't get game capture to work.
The game name don't show up or when it does it straight crashes.

Any hoot on to aero and window capture.

So i had it working where i could capture a game in windows mode, after the crash the preview window would show a still shot of the game scene and stay like that, i can see the mouse curers moving around in certain parts of the screen but the game it self won't change.

Areo is on on both windows and OBS.

Any help? TY

 

[l337g0g0]

I just tried to capture my Firefox browser and it worked at first, i minimized the browser and the preview screen went white.
I crested a new scene nothing rested OBS, if the browser is minimized i can't select the browser.

Can't preview the browser at all.

What's with all this trouble I'm having?

 

[l337g0g0]

Ok capturing steam's front end and it's working. it captures the window perfectly and the advertisement changes in the preview.

Also i don't see the OBS program when i put it over the steam application.

So why is steam working but games and my browser isn't?

 

[l337g0g0]

One last thing i just discovered.

When i launched GTA from steam to capture it the OBS showed up in the steam window frame preview and when i popped my browser up it showed in the preview screen.

And GTA screen was black BTW, and when i turned off GTA the window went back to normal and it was only showing steam front end only and nothing went in the preview browser OBS nothing even when steam was in the background behind all other windows.

 

[l337g0g0]

Applications are stopping aero from running.

"A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (Windows System Assessment Tool)"
Source: Desktop Window Manager
Event ID: 9010
or
"The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because composition was disabled by a running application"
Souce: Desktop Window Manager
Event ID: 9013

How can we stop the application or windows from disabling aero?

 

[Krazy]

The System Assessment Tool won't be running constantly, it looks like you just got unlucky with timing there.

Anyway, when windows are minimzed, they aren't actively being rendered, so there is nothing to capture. If you are using Window Capture, you'll need to keep things un-minimized (yes, that's a technical term -_-)

Can I see a log file if you're still having issues getting a game to show up in Window Capture? You are running GTA in some sort of window mode, yes? Here's how to post a log: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=97

 

[l337g0g0]

Yea i'm still having the problem i can't the preview window to work, it's just on a paused screen.
So ill give you my log...

18:13:17: Open Broadcaster Software v0.552b - 64bit (　^ω^)
18:13:17: -------------------------------
18:13:17: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7450 @ 2.13GHz
18:13:17: CPU Speed: 2128MHz
18:13:17: Physical Memory: 4062MB Total, 869MB Free
18:13:17: stepping id: 6, model 7, family 6, type 0, extmodel 0, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 2, total cores 2
18:13:17: monitor 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1366, 768}
18:13:17: Windows Version: 6.0 Build 6002 S
18:13:17: Aero is Enabled
18:13:17: -------------------------------
18:13:17: OBS Modules:
18:13:17: Base Address Module
18:13:17: 000000003F060000 OBS.exe
18:13:17: 00000000E7480000 OBSApi.dll
18:13:17: 00000000F6970000 DShowPlugin.dll
18:13:17: 00000000F6940000 GraphicsCapture.dll
18:13:17: 00000000FB6B0000 NoiseGate.dll
18:13:17: 00000000F6D40000 PSVPlugin.dll
18:13:17: ------------------------------------------
18:13:17: Adapter 1
18:13:17: Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
18:13:17: Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 517537792
18:13:17: Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 1861849088
18:13:17: =====Stream Start: 2013-08-27, 18:13:17===============================================
18:13:17: Multithreaded optimizations: On
18:13:17: Base resolution: 1366x768
18:13:17: Output resolution: 1364x768
18:13:17: ------------------------------------------
18:13:17: Loading up D3D10 on NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT...
18:13:17: Playback device Default
18:13:17: ------------------------------------------
18:13:17: Using desktop audio input: Speakers and Dual Headphones (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)
18:13:17: ------------------------------------------
18:13:17: Using auxilary audio input: Integrated Microphone Array (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)
18:13:17: ------------------------------------------
18:13:17: Audio Encoding: AAC
18:13:17: bitrate: 128
18:13:17: Using Window Capture
18:13:17: ------------------------------------------
18:13:17: Video Encoding: x264
18:13:17: fps: 30
18:13:17: width: 1364, height: 768
18:13:17: preset: veryfast
18:13:17: CBR: yes
18:13:17: CFR: no
18:13:17: max bitrate: 2000
18:13:17: ------------------------------------------
18:13:17: MMDeviceAudioSource: Frequency for device 'Speakers and Dual Headphones (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)' is 384000, samples per sec is 48000
18:13:17: MMDeviceAudioSource: Frequency for device 'Integrated Microphone Array (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)' is 384000, samples per sec is 48000
18:13:20: Using RTMP service: Twitch / Justin.tv
18:13:20: Server selection: rtmp://live-ord.justin.tv/app
18:13:20: Interface: Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) (ethernet, 100 mbps)
18:13:21: SO_SNDBUF was at 8192
18:13:21: SO_SNDBUF is now 65536
18:13:25: RTMPPublisher::Socketloop: Increasing send buffer to ISB 131072 (buffer: 0 / 272384)
18:13:26: RTMPPublisher::Socketloop: Increasing send buffer to ISB 262144 (buffer: 0 / 272384)
18:13:32: RTMPPublisher::Socketloop: Increasing send buffer to ISB 524288 (buffer: 0 / 272384)
18:13:39: Total frames rendered: 194, number of late frames: 184 (94.85%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)
18:13:39: RTMPPublisher::SocketLoop: Graceful loop exit
18:13:39: Number of times waited to send: 0, Waited for a total of 0 bytes
18:13:39: Number of b-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Number of p-frames dropped: 0 (0%), Total 0 (0%)
18:13:40:
18:13:40: Profiler results:
18:13:40:
18:13:40: ==============================================================
18:13:40: frame - [100%] [avg time: 108.792 ms (cpu time: avg 21.711 ms, total 4212.03 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 100%] [unaccounted: 0.00735%]
18:13:40: | frame preprocessing and rendering - [37.7%] [avg time: 40.968 ms (cpu time: avg 10.373 ms, total 2012.42 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 33.1%] [unaccounted: 4.56%]
18:13:40: | | scene->Preprocess - [33.1%] [avg time: 36.004 ms (cpu time: avg 10.051 ms, total 1950.01 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 1]
18:13:40: | video encoding and uploading - [62.3%] [avg time: 67.816 ms (cpu time: avg 11.338 ms, total 2199.61 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 60.8%] [unaccounted: 1.5%]
18:13:40: | | flush - [0.428%] [avg time: 0.466 ms (cpu time: avg 0.241 ms, total 46.8 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 1]
18:13:40: | | CopyResource - [49.7%] [avg time: 54.023 ms (cpu time: avg 7.317 ms, total 1419.61 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 0]
18:13:40: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [0.507%] [avg time: 0.552 ms (cpu time: avg 0.08 ms, total 15.6 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 0]
18:13:40: | | call to encoder - [9.92%] [avg time: 10.789 ms (cpu time: avg 3.698 ms, total 717.603 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 0]
18:13:40: | | sending stuff out - [0.326%] [avg time: 0.355 ms (cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 0]
18:13:40: | Convert444Threads - [97.7%] [avg time: 106.241 ms (cpu time: avg 1.367 ms, total 265.201 ms)] [avg calls per frame: 0]
18:13:40: ==============================================================
18:13:40:
18:13:40: =====Stream End: 2013-08-27, 18:13:40=================================================


TY good sir...

 

[l337g0g0]

bump.

 

[dodgepong]

Your CPU and GPU are very old/weak and not very well suited for streaming. Dual core CPUs don't encode video very fast, and that old of a GPU doesn't capture your video very fast.

Try downscaling by at least 2x and changing your preset to ultrafast, and lowering your FPS to 25, to begin with. But honestly I don't really see a good end to this...your system settings are just really weak, and a laptop, to boot.

 

[l337g0g0]

Yea i know it's weak, but i have streamed and it's not working now.

So ty for the info about the system specs but i was wondering if you know why the preview screen and the stream is stuck on a still image of when i start the stream?

TY