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Lufferov

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I have what might be a (slightly) unusual requirment. I have a triple screen setup with 3 x 1920*1200 monitors. So if I capture a single screen I get a 1920*1200 image which is a 16:10 ratio.

I want to output to YouTube in a 16:9 ratio at 1920x1080 resolution but I don't want any black bars at the sides. I figured an easy way to do this would be to capture the extra pixels at the sides which are on my two side monitors and then downscale that. So far so good...

Now if my height is 1200, then by my calculations the width should be 2133.

So 2133*1200 = 16:9.

If I put my base resolution in OBS as 2133*1200 it reports my ratio as 711:400 and I can't downscale that to 1920*1080. So what can I do?
 
Boildown

Boildown

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What if you crop it to 1920x1080? There still shouldn't be black bars, there would just be 120 horizontal pixels cropped. Although, what you described does sound like a bug to me. But I don't have a triple screen setup to test it.
 
Harold

Harold

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Or you could just set your base OBS resolution to your desired aspect ratio, capture the area of your screen that you want including the extra bars of overlay-ish stuff and work from there, or you could just find some background-y stuff to use to fill the boxes.
 
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Lufferov

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I didn't want to crop, because I'm doing gameplay videos and there's information at the top and bottom of the screen that needs to be captured. I did think about using a background image to fill in the black bars, but it's not ideal....

As it turns out, if I just use a "Base Resolution" of 2133x1200, it will capture my video with the extra 213 pixels from my side monitors perfectly. Then I can just upload that to YouTube and it plays back at 1080 with no black bars... perfect, problem solved!
 
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Lufferov

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What would be ideal is if the "Resolution Downscale" could be custom as well. So I can capture at whatever resolution I want, and then output at whatever resolution I want. I understand the reason they have a preset list, but there are always the edge case scenarios like this where it would be useful.
 
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Lufferov

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Thanks for the info, think I'll stick with what works for nowm and if they add that to the WIndows version I might look at changing it then...
 
Harold

Harold

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The old 0.6xx versions are dead development wise. You'll be waiting a LONG time for that branch to get ANY new features.
 
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Lufferov

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I didn't realise that they had stopped developing OBS for Windows... so is it the only branch being worked on the "MultiPlatform" version? If so, that's cool, but it's not advanced enough yet for me to switch over to it. I'll look foward to when it is so that I can!
 
Harold

Harold

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What's missing from it that is keeping you from switching?

Because it might not actually be missing.
 
Harold

Harold

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If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, that's not in original OBS either.
 
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Lufferov

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I downloaded the MuliPlatform version, but is there anyway to transfer my Scenes and settings? I can export in Windows OBS, but can't see an import in MP.
 
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Lufferov

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Shame, I spent a long time making a few different scenes that have quite complex placment of multiple sources. Wish it had been more obvious to use the MP version when I downloaded it... like saying the Windows version is not being developed any more...

I like the extra audio inputs in MP, I was looking for that in OBS! I wanted to capture audio from my speakers, my headphones and my mic... Looks like that's possible in the MP version?
 
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