Question / Help How do I get a good recording quality?

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mouse

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I was able to set up OBS to record (after getting several times a black screen, because I hadn´t set up a Scene) an RTS game, but I what I got was a bad quality recording: https://youtu.be/oTHpfWJzuNo

My computer is:
  • Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Home Basic of 32bits.
  • 4GB of RAM (2,66GB usable), it originally came with 2GB of RAM.
  • An Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU950 of 2.10GHz.
  • Screen resolution: 1366x768.
My download speed is of 20,12Mbps (tested now), and upload is of 0,90Mbps (tested now).

This is what I have now (I changed some after reading guides):
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OBS 4.png

What should I use? I´d like to use something "general", because I want to record other stuff apart from RTS games.

Thanks.
 
M

mouse

New Member
Harold said:
After reading some BAD guides.

Follow https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.12600/ instead.
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Do you think it´ll work? Using "ultrafast" tells me that it will save CPU usage at the cost of quality. And in Advanced, if I use quality 10, the CRF is of 22, which says its not very good for local recordings. And I´ll use 16.

"For best results, set your output file format in broadcast settings to FLV. You can convert it to MP4 afterwards if you need to. Recording directly to MP4 is very risky, as if OBS or your PC crashes, the whole recording is useless. FLV on the other hand will keep everything up until the crash."
This ends as a normal movie on my Movie folder, so I guess there aren´t problems with it.
 
Harold

Harold

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CRF based bitrate selection offsets what would normally be quality loss with increased bitrate instead.

MP4 is an extremely unreliable format to be saving live recordings directly to.
 
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