Question / Help Recordings are all fine but smooth, even at 60 frames!

ithehappy

ithehappy

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I was recording Advanced Warfare with OBS, at 720p, 60 fps, and I found that the recorded videos have decent enough quality but the thing is the videos aren't smooth. I don't speak English so I don't know how to better explain the situation, the videos look little choppy when I play them back, but they all have constant 60 frames, still it doesn't look buttery smooth. I do the same recording with Dxtory (lagarith lossless) and the recorded videos sometimes even drop frames (very rarely though) to 56-57 but still those videos are buttery smooth! So that's kind weird that a constant 60 frames video doesn't look as smooth as a 58-59 framed video, and the videos recorded by Dxtory are actually quite a lot smoother, not by a small margin, at least not to my eyes.

I simply love the software anyway, I mean all I have is a 2 TB internal and 2 TB external and it's a pleasure to have a software which records at such small size, yet the quality is more or less decent, but if I knew how to have the videos really smooth I would be really happy :)

Other settings on OBS I didn't really change, only bitrate set at 30000 kbps, Quality is at 10 obviously and CBR unchecked, along with Custom buffer size. The advanced settings are at default.

I have an i7 950, a GTX580 (1.5GB) and 8 GB of memory, and the videos are recorded on an internal WD Black drive.

If there's really something I can do to make the recorded video more smoother I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I did read some posts before creating this topic, like you can change CFR values to lower rate and have more quality added to the videos, the default CFR is set at 22 when quality is 10 etc., but I am kinda scared to mess with the advanced settings, that's why I created this topic to make sure before altering anything.
 

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ithehappy said:
I was recording Advanced Warfare with OBS, at 720p, 60 fps, and I found that the recorded videos have decent enough quality but the thing is the videos aren't smooth. I don't speak English so I don't know how to better explain the situation, the videos look little choppy when I play them back, but they all have constant 60 frames, still it doesn't look buttery smooth. I do the same recording with Dxtory (lagarith lossless) and the recorded videos sometimes even drop frames (very rarely though) to 56-57 but still those videos are buttery smooth! So that's kind weird that a constant 60 frames video doesn't look as smooth as a 58-59 framed video, and the videos recorded by Dxtory are actually quite a lot smoother, not by a small margin, at least not to my eyes.

I simply love the software anyway, I mean all I have is a 2 TB internal and 2 TB external and it's a pleasure to have a software which records at such small size, yet the quality is more or less decent, but if I knew how to have the videos really smooth I would be really happy :)

Other settings on OBS I didn't really change, only bitrate set at 30000 kbps, Quality is at 10 obviously and CBR unchecked, along with Custom buffer size. The advanced settings are at default.

I have an i7 950, a GTX580 (1.5GB) and 8 GB of memory, and the videos are recorded on an internal WD Black drive.

If there's really something I can do to make the recorded video more smoother I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I did read some posts before creating this topic, like you can change CFR values to lower rate and have more quality added to the videos, the default CFR is set at 22 when quality is 10 etc., but I am kinda scared to mess with the advanced settings, that's why I created this topic to make sure before altering anything.
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you mean crf. Not cfr, which is constant frame rate. Make sure you arent previewing your stream from obs or have anything up but your game and obs. Key frames set to auto. Set them to 2. Other than having a first gen i7 that should do 720@60, your encoding time looks borderline high. Other than what i said above and maybe overclocking a bit, with the changes above s all you can really do. Oh wait. I think for game capture and windows 7, you want aero enabled in windows.
 
I am not previewing my streams, honestly I don't even know how to stream and all that, I am recording offline, to upload the videos to Youtube later. I am also not running anything else, other than the game and OBS itself.

You are saying to set key frames value to 2, from Auto? Okay, I will do that and test further. Almost everyone said that Aero should be disabled, so I disabled it, but will enable now.

You said my encoding times are borderline high? May I know why is that? I mean is it because my super old rig isn't able to keep up performance wise?

PS: One more thing, should I change anything under Encoding settings? I mean I have set the bitrate at 30000 kbps, but for high quality recording it is mentioned to be at 1000 kbps according to this topic, https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/

Mine is set 30 times higher!
 
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ithehappy said:
I am not previewing my streams, honestly I don't even know how to stream and all that, I am recording offline, to upload the videos to Youtube later. I am also not running anything else, other than the game and OBS itself.

You are saying to set key frames value to 2, from Auto? Okay, I will do that and test further. Almost everyone said that Aero should be disabled, so I disabled it, but will enable now.

You said my encoding times are borderline high? May I know why is that? I mean is it because my super old rig isn't able to keep up performance wise?
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it means that 720@60 might be taking your cpu to much time to encode. So yes. You could overclock a little but still only put you at equivilent to a gen3 i5 maybe. You could lower your frames per second to 48 to witch youtube supports as well and it looks good in my opinion.
 
Okay, thanks for informing that. 48 isn't really a problem, I mean nowadays I am happy with even 40-42 while playing, cause my rig is so old, and I don't expect anything better. But just to do this recording at 60 frames I turned down the settings of the game to automatic, LOL, the quality is actually shite but I am opting for more frames than quality anyway. I actually love how 60 frames look, I mean that smoothness.

I guess I will stick with whatever I have, I mean OBS settings wise. I have changed so many settings that now with the previous settings I think I am getting some lags, or maybe the PC needs a reboot, confused!

Is there any way to make everything revert to default settings on OBS? There is only one default tab on Advanced page!
 
ithehappy said:
Okay, thanks for informing that. 48 isn't really a problem, I mean nowadays I am happy with even 40-42 while playing, cause my rig is so old, and I don't expect anything better. But just to do this recording at 60 frames I turned down the settings of the game to automatic, LOL, the quality is actually shite but I am opting for more frames than quality anyway. I actually love how 60 frames look, I mean that smoothness.

I guess I will stick with whatever I have, I mean OBS settings wise. I have changed so many settings that now with the previous settings I think I am getting some lags, or maybe the PC needs a reboot, confused!

Is there any way to make everything revert to default settings on OBS? There is only one default tab on Advanced page!
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i am unaware of a default to all but you dont want that. what you have is about right. when you go to settings save a profile called 720@60, then change fps to 48, then go back there and save a new profile called 720@48. now you can switch between :)
 
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