Question / Help Recorded Output Appears Only in Upper Left Part of Screen

[jdanniel]

Hello, everyone, I just discovered OBS today, and would like some assistance with it, please. I haven't found the solution to my problem in the documentation--yet.

I have a Microsoft Life Cam VX-5000 running on Windows 10. The Life Cam software does not synch the video and audio properly. So, I went looking for alternate software that might get the a/v in synch. OBS does that.

Just one slight problem: When I preview and/or record the video, the frame appears only in the upper left portion of the OBS screen. It does not fill the entire screen.

When I play back the MP4 file in VLC Media Player, the same thing happens. The video takes up only a rather small portion of the upper left section of the screen.

I haven't figured out how to configure OBS so that the video fills the entire screen. I'm not sure if that's possible.

Is there a way to configure OBS so that the preview and/or recorded output takes up the entire window of a playback program such as VLC? If there is, what is the procedure?

Thank you for your assistance. J. Danniel

PS: Just to clarify...I am not recording games, or anything on my monitor. I am trying to create a video directly from my webcam. Thank you.

 

[jdanniel]

I think I figured it out by trial and error. It's not perfect, but it will do. I went into Settings, Video, and experimented with the base resolution until I got it to fill most--if not all--of the screen. The quality of the image deteriorates as the base resolution gets smaller, so I accepted a compromise...a slightly smaller image with a bit higher resolution.