My laptop has a Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4020 CPU @ 1.10GHz 1.10 GHz CPU. It has 4GB of RAM. I have been trying to record zoom meetings using obs studio. But even if stayed in the meeting for hours, the recording file has only about 30 minutes of the meeting. I checked for a reason in the logs too. It says recording stopped because of Frame Rate Lagging or something like that. I will attach the recent log file with this post. Can someone please suggest me the suitable settings for my computer. I'd be so happy because I need to record the meetings. But it keeps failing to record the entire meeting session. Thank you so much.
Need help with setting up obs for a low-end pc...
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koala
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Your Laptop is well below minimum system requirements. It's not fit to record high resolution good looking smooth videos. The video encoder chokes over too much data it isn't able to encode fast enough.
If you just want some protocol of your zoom meeting where audio is important and the video nice to have, try recording with a greatly reduced resolution and frame rate within OBS. Go to Settings → Video and set base resolution as well as output resolution to 684x384, and set fps to 15 or 10 or even 5.
Half the resolution requires a quarter video resources and half the fps requires half video resources, so by reducing resolution from 1280x720 to 684x384 and 15 fps you require about one eighth resources; by reducing to 684x384@5 fps one twentyfourth. May be with this reduction, the encoder is able to do something you can view.
If you just want some protocol of your zoom meeting where audio is important and the video nice to have, try recording with a greatly reduced resolution and frame rate within OBS. Go to Settings → Video and set base resolution as well as output resolution to 684x384, and set fps to 15 or 10 or even 5.
Half the resolution requires a quarter video resources and half the fps requires half video resources, so by reducing resolution from 1280x720 to 684x384 and 15 fps you require about one eighth resources; by reducing to 684x384@5 fps one twentyfourth. May be with this reduction, the encoder is able to do something you can view.
Thank you so much for replying. I will try it out. Thanks once again!!!