Fails to record, I'm an idiot.
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PaiSand
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Analyzer | OBS
OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
Love Bytes
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Ok, but it still isn't working for me. I checked to see if I have the latest video drivers. Played with the settings. Guess I'm missing something.
Love Bytes
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Ran the wizard too. Still no go.
Love Bytes
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Ok I finally got it to work, thanks. I went into the video settings and changed everything to the lowest quality. Appreciate your help. Have a good week.
Lawrence_SoCal
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An 11 generation old low-end i3 CPU, without GPU encoding offload. absolutely would require absolute lowest end setting to get to work. I'm impressed you got it to work at all. congrats
Sorry, but flexible real-time video encoding is really computationally demanding, and to make good use of OBS Studio, you really do need a much newer and more powerful computer. If you can get OBS to do what you need on your current ... fantastic. just realize that many plugins you may read about, will overload your system
Sorry, but flexible real-time video encoding is really computationally demanding, and to make good use of OBS Studio, you really do need a much newer and more powerful computer. If you can get OBS to do what you need on your current ... fantastic. just realize that many plugins you may read about, will overload your system
Love Bytes
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Thank you Lawrence. I've gotten use to this. Every time I want to move forward with anything, it means I have to spend $.
How did I know it would apply to this situation as well ! Don't tell anyone I'm still living in the computer dark ages, it's a little embarrassing. I was probably one of the last people clinging on to Windows XP until it finally was no longer safe, squeezing every last kilobyte of life out of it. This is a recurring theme with me because I'm just too lazy or cheap or a combination of the two. :-)
How did I know it would apply to this situation as well ! Don't tell anyone I'm still living in the computer dark ages, it's a little embarrassing. I was probably one of the last people clinging on to Windows XP until it finally was no longer safe, squeezing every last kilobyte of life out of it. This is a recurring theme with me because I'm just too lazy or cheap or a combination of the two. :-)
You could do what I did in 2015: Pay a boatload for the best customized laptop available at the time, with the goal of being "futureproof", and then use that until the world finally catches up to it.
$6k for a Dell Precision M6800 with all the options checked and maximized, and it still does quite a good job today. It came with Win7 (option for Win8: NO!), I dual-booted it from the beginning between that and Lubuntu Linux, upgraded both several times, and eventually switched entirely to Ubuntu Studio when Win10 decided that it wasn't going to to update anymore. It would try, and always fail. Googled a bunch of solutions, none of them worked, so now my Windows side has all of its networking disabled in case I do run it, but I rarely do anymore.
It's still my daily driver, and I'm presently using it to work out the intricacies of a live meeting rig, as a test machine that might actually run a few while the main one gets overhauled to do the same thing. Two copies of OBS, both in Studio mode, 1920x1080p30, and a DAW to do all of the audio with a surprising amount of processing and complex routing for what it seems to be on the surface. Most of that is to make it all automatic, so that the presenter works as if they're just producing a single live stream, and even that feels more like PowerPoint than a TV studio. Those scenes have a naming convention so that the Advanced Scene Switcher plugin can reconfigure things according to what's happening at the moment.
All of that on this so-far-futureproof 8-year-old laptop, and Ubuntu Studio's CPU load indicator is around 30%. All 8 cores roughly even, and using 6GiB of RAM.
Well, Love Bytes I sort of understand your situation. I also kept XP for a long time. My other laptop is still running Windows 7. It would no longer run some stuff that I have so a year ago we bought this new computer. It is a year old now. I'm just starting with OBS and pretty well lost. Oh well.
Lawrence_SoCal
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I was running on a circa 2009 Dell XPS Studio desktop with an i7-920, 24GBs RAM, and multiple SSDS, until 2 years ago when power supply fried, and I swapped to a spare Dell Precision T3500 (similar vintage, and my primary system today. With vast majority of my stuff in virtual machines, moving to new computer was trivial). Other than video/photo editing, system is more than powerful for all of my other uses. I too loved how optimized I was able to make XP. But I did move to Win7 within a year (or so). I waited a couple of years before going to Win10 (which can still be a free upgrade), and I'm avoiding (beta) Win11 (standard Windows every-other PoS desktop OS for last couple of decades) completely at this point.
So, right tool for the job... just recognizing that real-time video, along with some games, are typically the most demanding workload for consumer PCs. Personally, I avoid running with admin rights, am well aware of IT security risks to avoid, and can keep an OS running for many years without major issues. So, upgrading for the sake of upgrading is something I typically avoid (may car is over 20 yrs old, been in same house for 25 yrs, etc. - get quality, configure and maintain them properly and enjoy for a LONG time)
I had a work provided M6800, started OBS streaming with it actually (the only issues being Corp IT security s/w settings incompatible with livestreaming). As much as I prefer desktops, I'm looking to get a modern equivalent of mobile professional workstation with HX CPU, 4 DIMM slots, multiple M.2 slots, etc (such systems just being released)... which may force me to have Win11 as host (but I'll leave all my VMs at Win10 for now). so don't apologize for not upgrading unnecessarily (as long as still getting security updates). but you have a use case now that demands decent power. How much power? .. depends (sorry) and also depends on how good you are at optimizing a setup. Just want it to work, plan to buy a little extra spare 'power' ;^)
@BobK53 - I was lost for a little while as well. With a significant time investment (and an existing deep compute understanding to start with), my use of OBS Studio has turned out well.