Matthew Needler
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Hey all,
I'll try to keep this brief, but I'd love some advice on this one.
I normally stream at 1080p 30fps and use x264 Encorder at 8000 bitrate and veryfast CPU with main profile. This is perfect, no dropped frames - its great. However, I've noticed the final video files can be a little 'murky' lets say from the compression/encoding. Examples: https://youtu.be/xWVPpRcfpTo?t=3359 & https://youtu.be/WCKdhaTvIeU?t=3726 both look 'okay' in a small window but if you full screen them at 1080p you can see they are quite blurry, HUD elements especially. Now, when I'm playing they look great, crisp and amazing. I'm also fine with them looking like this when streaming on Twitch, that's fine. HOWEVER, I would like these saved recordings/archives to be of a much higher quality.
This brings us to today, I decide lets test recording at 1080p60fps for Shadow of the Colossus PS4 coming out soon and lets also tinker with recordings to see if I can get higher quality results. Well, I first try 1080p60 and it streams and records (using stream encoding) perfectly well. Then I try changing the recording encoder to HVENC H.264 and try streaming again - the stream and the recording are both very laggy. Here's an unlisted example of what I mean: https://youtu.be/f8J3HJVoOnw (It looks great, but plays like a slide show). I've tried to change the recording settings and lower them but no matter what I do it causes great lag in the recording unless the encoder is set to (Use stream encoder) no matter the resolution, fps or bitrate, I get recording lag using anything but the same stream encoder which results in those muddy/compressed final outputs that I included in the first paragraph.
Now in this log: https://pastebin.com/Pg29vkAc (one of many MANY tests I've done) it says: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4031/4103 (98.2%) - but I have no idea why or what is causing this. The recording encoder is set to NVENC H.264 which should mean my GTX 1080 is doing all the work on that shouldn't it? Then why so much lag?
Other info:
Intel i7 5960X
16GB Ram
NVIDIA GTX 1080
Any help or advice would be much appreciated... or I guess I'll go back to streaming and having recordings with poor quality (imo).
I'll try to keep this brief, but I'd love some advice on this one.
I normally stream at 1080p 30fps and use x264 Encorder at 8000 bitrate and veryfast CPU with main profile. This is perfect, no dropped frames - its great. However, I've noticed the final video files can be a little 'murky' lets say from the compression/encoding. Examples: https://youtu.be/xWVPpRcfpTo?t=3359 & https://youtu.be/WCKdhaTvIeU?t=3726 both look 'okay' in a small window but if you full screen them at 1080p you can see they are quite blurry, HUD elements especially. Now, when I'm playing they look great, crisp and amazing. I'm also fine with them looking like this when streaming on Twitch, that's fine. HOWEVER, I would like these saved recordings/archives to be of a much higher quality.
This brings us to today, I decide lets test recording at 1080p60fps for Shadow of the Colossus PS4 coming out soon and lets also tinker with recordings to see if I can get higher quality results. Well, I first try 1080p60 and it streams and records (using stream encoding) perfectly well. Then I try changing the recording encoder to HVENC H.264 and try streaming again - the stream and the recording are both very laggy. Here's an unlisted example of what I mean: https://youtu.be/f8J3HJVoOnw (It looks great, but plays like a slide show). I've tried to change the recording settings and lower them but no matter what I do it causes great lag in the recording unless the encoder is set to (Use stream encoder) no matter the resolution, fps or bitrate, I get recording lag using anything but the same stream encoder which results in those muddy/compressed final outputs that I included in the first paragraph.
Now in this log: https://pastebin.com/Pg29vkAc (one of many MANY tests I've done) it says: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4031/4103 (98.2%) - but I have no idea why or what is causing this. The recording encoder is set to NVENC H.264 which should mean my GTX 1080 is doing all the work on that shouldn't it? Then why so much lag?
Other info:
- Yes I have a fast enough connection for streaming:
- I am using a capture card - the AverMedia ExtremeCap U3
- I have tried lowering the bitrates to 2000 and still lag on both stream and recording. I've tried only recording and it lags - but only streaming does not lag until I record. Basically, If I try to record with anything other than (Use stream encoder) as the encoder option, it lags.
- Additional images/documentation can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/zKpXb
Intel i7 5960X
16GB Ram
NVIDIA GTX 1080
Any help or advice would be much appreciated... or I guess I'll go back to streaming and having recordings with poor quality (imo).
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