Question / Help Few questions and issues

[dan44762000]

So i want to use OBS studio for capturing gameplay and then uploading to youtube once edited,I am using a condenser mic connected through my audiobox but am only getting mono through the left channel and i want stereo of course.

Secondly i recorded a 10 minutes clip but the file size was almost 3GB and i want it lower if possible,I mean i want nice quality but not such a big file size.

My settings at the moment are as follows

http://imgur.com/a/8GBf1

Basically i would like nice 1080p quality but as low a file size as is possible.And also a solution to my mic only being recorded in mono on the left channel.

Many thanks

Daniel

 

[C-Dude]

For your microphone make sure downmix to mono isn't selected in audio mixer and if it still happens then upload a log

3GB for 10 minutes is a really small size for a video. Video files are huge. Really the only way to get a smaller file size is by lowering the bitrate, which you could do but the quality would start to drop. Definitely use VBR instead of CBR for local recordings and this should save a bit of file size and improve quality slightly.

HD video is very large. When I record I can get over a gigabyte per minute. (I use CQP of around 16). You could record heavily compressed but your quality would go down and it would use a lot of CPU, and all your compression would be lost when you reencode your videos after you edit.

 

[Suslik V]

You should check 'Downmix to Mono' for mic source if source has only left (right) signal (main menu Edit>Advanced Audio Properties) - it produces planar stereo (divided by 2 channels --> quieter sound --> use Gain filter). Some audio cards can do mono to stereo automatically when using Mic jack (mono) for recordings but in your case Line-in jack is 2 channels (stereo) and you are using either L or R. Thus you can use this feature of OBS Studio. It averages all channels --> 100%L and 0%R = (L+R)/2 and (L+R)/2 (this is 2 channels of the same data, it lacks stereo panorama but it is not mono sound).

 

[hoemaco]

I don't know what was changed in the past three years but I can't get it to work.
The "Downmix to Mono" button is now called simply "mono". I tried checking it and not, also tried setting Mono or Stereo in Settings->Audio.
In any combinations, only left channel contains my voice. (Using traditional 3.5 jack headset Realted built-in stuff -what is interesting is that the driver's info tab lists only 2channel modes for the mic..)

I've read other posts from two years ago where it's explained that mono sound is halved to distribute to both channels and this is not going to be changed. I don't know if anything happened since then? I always thought that Mono meant that same sound is heard on both channels, not that I hear it only in one channel. And no halving.

update: I checked my mic's jack and it's stereo (but mic itself is not). So plugged it out and in. Changed settings back and forth and restarted OBS for (n+1)th time. Now it works... for how long I don't know. What is curious that even before this, the audio amplitude bar in obs showed both channels with same intensity so it shouldn't have been hardware problem so it should have worked in recording.

 

[Suslik V]

@hoemaco small remark, because it rarely mentioned: the MIC jack (pink input) in PC usually has GROUND, POWER and SIGNAL pins, so it remains mono, always. The audio becomes stereo usually inside the driver of the sound card. OBS just reads available inputs form the driver.(sometimes configurable as Default Format for the Recording device , Properties in the Windows). For the stereo mic (it usually has external power source, battery) you will use blue jack LINE-IN of the PC (or if this is USB-device mic then everything will be included, just plug it in).

 

[hoemaco]

Okay maybe the reason was rather mundane - my headset seems no have problems with the right side.
Sad, as I bought in not for last Christmas and already has contact errors. Just can't imagine why I can't buy a headset that's actually designed for practical use instead of looks... You can't even repair many of them with those micrometer diameter wires inside...

 

[hoemaco]

Took it apart and back and today no errors. (And earlier I didn't find problems when listening to music,only with OBS). So I'm still not sure if hw or sw error. (though as they say if no smoke comes out, then it's software error)