De-Interlacing, Scene editing, and force "fake stereo".

[RetroGamer]

Hi, been using OBS for about two months now and I love it over the alternatives, but it could use some features that would make it even greater.

Built-in deinterlacing would be nice. It would mean I don't need to run my older consoles through amarec to deinterlace the video which means I won't have to encode with amarec to have OBS encode the encode which is always a terrible idea.

Fix scene editing. In it's current form, it works only "good enough". The problem is if you stretch a capture source beyond the preview window, the borders to adjust the source are all off screen making it impossible to stretch the source as you want without moving its x/y offset which ruins your placement of said source. If the borders move off screen, they should be "grabbable" on the edges of the preview screen.

An option to force "fake stereo" sound to both sound channels if only one sound channel has sound. The NES is a mono system and unless I use a sound splitter I only get sound from one sound channel. It'd be nice to have mono to duplicate both channels and force a "fake stereo".

Keep up the great work and I really hope these features get implemented at some point!

 

[paibox]

Just so we're clear here: AmarecTV does not do any encoding when using the Amarec Live DirectShow passthrough, you get exactly what your capture card is outputting to Amarec itself, plus deinterlacing if you enable that.

As for the scene editing issue, I know what you mean, but I'm not sure how a sensible solution for it could be implemented, some sort of fullscreen-ish special edit scene mode would probably be necessary.

The fake stereo thing would probably be easier to implement once audio sources make it in there, but I can't give you an ETA for that or anything, sorry.

 

[RetroGamer]

Fair enough on Amarec, I'd still love to not go through a third party application to do this. It's certainly possible as other streaming software has it.

That's awesome that fake stereo will be easy to implement. I look forward to that.

As far as scene editing, I forgot to mention in cropping. The ability to crop scenes would be great as well!

 

[RetroGamer]

I just had an idea that could be used as a quick (and clean) workaround for the scene editing until something more practical can be enabled.

I'm aware you're able to move the rectangle around with the arrow keys now, you can also hold (shift I think?) to stretch the image while using the mouse to ignore aspect ratio.

Why not allow stretching the image using the arrow keys as well (with or without aspect ratio using some button combination) so having the border outside the region wouldn't be an issue until this gets resolved? I hope I explained this well enough.

Basically would just like the ability to adjust and stretch the rectangle however I please without the use of the mouse so that when the border is outside of the scene and unable to be grabbed by the mouse, you can still edit the scene.

Thanks!

 

[Lain]

I realize that using the workaround sucks. I wish I could have known every scenario for every device before I originally implemented it. I naively thought that these things would have been implemented by the devices automatically. Deinterlacing requires a lot of work, and I just can't get to it right away because I'm just one guy.

 

[RetroGamer]

I understand that, and I hope I didn't come off as a complainer as I didn't intend to at all. With that being said, I hope the scene editing suggestion I made in my last reply didn't go unnoticed.