Question / Help How good is the AAC audio on High Quality Recording?

[Foebane]

I've been looking at this program for making recordings from my PC for my own use, and it's looking promising compared to Nvidia Shadowplay/Share.

However, whilst I like the extra flexibility that this program offers, I am not sure about the AAC audio bitrate in "High Quality" recording (I don't care about streaming).

The video quality in this mode looks great, and I have two tests for audio, and whilst it passes the first one which is basically white noise spikes, I can hear artefacts in music on the second one.

Also, if the bitrate is low, as I suspect it is, can I adjust it? Use more CPU power to make the file smaller or better?

 

[c3r1c3]

Since you didn't post a log, I can only take guesses:
1. You can install Apple's CoreAudio codecs for better audio quality without bothering with iTunes or QuickTime. Follow the instructions at http://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-enable-coreaudio-aac-encoder-windows.220/

2. This will tell you how to 'copy' the simple presets to the advanced mode, where you can manually set the bitrate for your audio track(s): https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...lity-recording-and-multiple-audio-tracks.221/

As to #1, if you aren't using coreaudio already, it will help out a good bit with audio quality at lower bitrates.

 

[Foebane]

Here's my log: https://gist.github.com/3aee5be94d9cb26f058a4aad833e5069

 

[Foebane]

I just installed the AppleApplicationSupport64 from an iTunes installer, but I'm not sure if it properly installed. The "Enable CoreAudio" guide is showing log entries I'm not getting.

Here's the updated log: https://gist.github.com/1326bbef70cab5d7b5d72dcfa2304009

 

[Foebane]

So, does the log say it's worked? There seems to be other stuff I'm missing, too - what are they all?

 

[Sapiens]

11:54:57.218: [CoreAudio encoder]: Adding CoreAudio AAC encoder

Worked fine. The rest of the failures all look normal, e.g. you don't have an AMD GPU so AMF doesn't load, you don't have VLC installed so the VLC plugin doesn't load, etc.

 

[Foebane]

you don't have VLC installed

I have VideoLAN's VLC Media Player installed, or is that something different from the VLC you mean?

 

[Sapiens]

You need 32-bit VLC for 32-bit OBS and 64-bit VLC for 64-bit OBS. I'm guessing you have 32-bit VLC installed since you run the 64-bit OBS and it isn't loading the VLC plugin.