Question / Help OBS record quality not as good as apparent quality of source

[xucaen]

Hi, I have a problem where my OBS recordings are of poor quality even though my source looks good. I am using DMCap software with an GC1000 video capture device.


This is my video source for recordings.
http://image.geekytechguy.org/plog-content/images/barrettgames/obs/obs1.png

OBS lets me select a region of the screen to capture for recordings.
http://image.geekytechguy.org/plog-content/images/barrettgames/obs/obs2.png

These are the monitor capture settings after selecting region. Only monitor capture will work with DMCap.
http://image.geekytechguy.org/plog-content/images/barrettgames/obs/obs3.png

This is the OBS application while recording.
http://image.geekytechguy.org/plog-content/images/barrettgames/obs/obs4.png

Playing back the MP4 shows poor quality, washed out colors
http://image.geekytechguy.org/plog-content/images/barrettgames/obs/obs5.png


Here is the resulting MP4 video:
http://www.geekytechguy.net/pub/OBS/HD1080p.2015-01-04-1231-25.mp4

viewing the actual MP4, it becomes more apparent that the quality is no good. Watch the animation, the appear to be sluggish and seem to leave traces of afterimages. I'm not sure how to fix this problem. I think it must have something to do with the ratios of screen sizes and resolutions but I just don't know what to do.

 

[Verdemis]

I think your source gets scaled up when you only select an area of your screen. And capturing the whole monitor doesn't work very well you will get bad fps