Thebigcheese
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I recently picked up a Yuan SC512 N1-L DVI card per the suggestion of FerretBomb. It's amazing and it's working great, but I'm having some trouble getting AmarecTV to cooperate. It seems that most people using this card are also using Amarec, I believe for its supposedly superior anti-aliasing abilities, so I thought I would give that a go. I have no way to confirm this, but there does seeeeem to be slightly less latency using Amarec vs playing in the OBS preview (which is important for me since I am just using that as my game monitor), which is nice, and there is also an option to decrease the audio output, which is also nice (since, again, I am playing off the monitor and the only way to get sound is my routing the Yuan card to the desktop audio). I would prefer to not have to use so many applications to get a stream going, but if Amarec will work better, than I'm not going to complain too much.
But I've hit a couple snags. First, while streaming today I noticed a "popping" sort of noise while playing. If you have done any recording/mixing, then you might recognize it as the sort of sound you get when your buffer size isn't set right. So, since I do use a firewire audio interface as my sound card, I played around with those settings some, made sure all my sample rates and bit depths matched, but nothing fixed it. So I went to see if it was present in the VOD of the stream, but Twitch is being crabby and I can never seem to get my past broadcasts to load without crazy amounts of buffering (and I know it's not me because I have good internet speed and videos everywhere else work fine), so then I thought I would try to record a clip and see if the issue was in the recording. Now I can't even get the video feed into OBS, I just get an AmarecTV logo. For final piece of mind, I just went straight off the card into OBS, no Amarec, and lo and behold, the popping is gone. So the problem is clearly related to Amarec.
My questions are:
1) Does anyone have any numbers to back up whether there is more latency in the OBS preview than in Amarec?
2) What am I doing wrong and what do I need to change to get everything up and running correctly?
But I've hit a couple snags. First, while streaming today I noticed a "popping" sort of noise while playing. If you have done any recording/mixing, then you might recognize it as the sort of sound you get when your buffer size isn't set right. So, since I do use a firewire audio interface as my sound card, I played around with those settings some, made sure all my sample rates and bit depths matched, but nothing fixed it. So I went to see if it was present in the VOD of the stream, but Twitch is being crabby and I can never seem to get my past broadcasts to load without crazy amounts of buffering (and I know it's not me because I have good internet speed and videos everywhere else work fine), so then I thought I would try to record a clip and see if the issue was in the recording. Now I can't even get the video feed into OBS, I just get an AmarecTV logo. For final piece of mind, I just went straight off the card into OBS, no Amarec, and lo and behold, the popping is gone. So the problem is clearly related to Amarec.
My questions are:
1) Does anyone have any numbers to back up whether there is more latency in the OBS preview than in Amarec?
2) What am I doing wrong and what do I need to change to get everything up and running correctly?