helpful55
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I’m sure I’ll never understand too much of the technical part of video recording and converting, but I wanted to ask about a problem I am having. Without the whole story I am at this point not sure that I don’t have some of my problem from a defective video card/driver since it seems like everything I do does not quite get me to where I need. But I would like to find out if there is something I don’t understand that may help this out assuming it is not a video card problem. I have tried other recorder software and OBS is the closest to working for me and I am very happy with it otherwise. Although I don’t have too great of net service I can seem to stream HD smooth, but I can never seem to tune out some stuttering in my recordings. I am mostly recording auto racing and when there is full speed race action I have this playback problem.
I don’t know how close I am to having enough pc to do this recording. It is W7 64 bit, Athlon X4 760 3.8 Quad core, 8GB of 1866 DDR3, AMD HD 6450 video card a SSD for my programs and a 7200 rpm HD.
CPU runs around 60 to 70% when recording and running a HD stream. I turn Aero off although it doesn’t seem to change the cpu load much. I have tried changing settings with the quality, resolution, frame rate and the cpu preset. I forget which, but about the only settings that help me out if at all starts degrading quality a noticeable amount. In broadcast settings I have save to filepath and replay buffer to the HD as the SSD is not real big and I would rather not use the SSD for anything that isn’t necessary. Am I sending the workload to the wrong place by the replay buffer path?
I have always noticed that just internally even with much lesser pc’s I can record OTA beautifully with Windows Media Center. I realize that that is mostly because there is no or very little converting taking place so the cpu doesn’t have to do too much. And most of the preferable formats take quite a bit of converting. So my question is is there a format I can set OBS to that is not as intensive as the flv format so I may be able to handle this? I usually watch these recordings shortly and then can delete them and I have plenty or storage space so a larger file wouldn’t be too much problem. Thanks for any help.
Here is a log that should be with the problem:
https://gist.github.com/b47c56a867b5696fb143
I don’t know how close I am to having enough pc to do this recording. It is W7 64 bit, Athlon X4 760 3.8 Quad core, 8GB of 1866 DDR3, AMD HD 6450 video card a SSD for my programs and a 7200 rpm HD.
CPU runs around 60 to 70% when recording and running a HD stream. I turn Aero off although it doesn’t seem to change the cpu load much. I have tried changing settings with the quality, resolution, frame rate and the cpu preset. I forget which, but about the only settings that help me out if at all starts degrading quality a noticeable amount. In broadcast settings I have save to filepath and replay buffer to the HD as the SSD is not real big and I would rather not use the SSD for anything that isn’t necessary. Am I sending the workload to the wrong place by the replay buffer path?
I have always noticed that just internally even with much lesser pc’s I can record OTA beautifully with Windows Media Center. I realize that that is mostly because there is no or very little converting taking place so the cpu doesn’t have to do too much. And most of the preferable formats take quite a bit of converting. So my question is is there a format I can set OBS to that is not as intensive as the flv format so I may be able to handle this? I usually watch these recordings shortly and then can delete them and I have plenty or storage space so a larger file wouldn’t be too much problem. Thanks for any help.
Here is a log that should be with the problem:
https://gist.github.com/b47c56a867b5696fb143
