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First, record your video. I use Open Broadcaster Software
Then, convert the video into a gif.
I record all of my calls to any organization that says the call is monitored for quality purposes. I don't need to tell them they are being recorded, they just told me they are being recorded so they already know. I use Google voice calling and open broadcast software ([link]) with microphone and speaker feed in the mixer.
Well I usually watch True Detective on T.V, but once I saw someone wanted a gif made, I went and loaded up the episode on HBO GO, ran a screen recording software called OBS, recorded the part I wanted, then I converted it to an mp4 using a program called format factory (which also allowed me to cut the video) and then I uploaded it straight to gfycat! Whole process probably took 5 minutes.
You can use FRAPS or Open Broadcaster Software to capture your game/screen, saving it to your disk.
You can then go to www.gfycat.com and click "Upload a GIF" or something similar. The max video duration is 15 seconds.
Here's a quick guide for OBS.
I stream to twitch.tv with OBS so I got my video from my own archive :-).
Open Broadcaster Software can be set up to do file-output instead of streaming.
I don't know any others that won't watermark your recording...but I'm sure there are more out there.
Your absolute best bet is to stop using FRAPS. It's a great program that records video in an AMAZING quality, but that's because it's completely and totally uncompressed.
A wonderful free alternative is Open Broadcaster Software. It's made for livestreaming, but it also has the ability to record video like FRAPS. It's got a few settings you can tinker with to adjust quality and size. The best part is that it's completely free, no limited trial BS. If you want an example of some footage captured using OBS, you can check out an unreleased Let's Play I recorded here.
The best thing you can do is record one of your games. If that's foreign to you, I recommend getting started with OBS, Open Broadcaster Software. It's easy to download and very simple to use - the only thing you really need to do to set it up is set a hotkey for start and end video, and maybe adjust the bitrate to a lower value if it takes forever for you to upload youtube videos.
Play arena, record one of your games, record your draft even, and let people scrutinize the whole thing. The most likely problem is that one (or more) of these statements:
> I understand how to draft
> I understand importance of curve
> I understand which cards are strong and why
> I understand mana efficiency in game
> I understand trading efficiently
> I understand the important of tempo and board control
...is simply wrong. We can't really know which one, or why, without seeing you make decisions.
TL;DR:
- Cross platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux support)
- A "Broadcaster" view, like the current interface, and a "Studio" view with more sophisticated production features, including the ability to edit scenes without showing them live
- Ability to stream to multiple sites and record locally at the same time with different encoders, formats, and quality settings
- Video effects and transitions (including support for writing your own shaders)
- Native support for using media files as sources
- Expanded audio support, allowing for an arbitrary number of inputs
- Support for capture cards with encoded output, such as the Hauppauge and Roxio cards
- More
An initial alpha is expected to be released sometime early this year (not with all those features finished yet, of course).
It's AMD Gaming Evolved, not Raptr.
I'd use OBS with the AMD recording patched in though.
Get it here: [link]
EDIT: Raptr and AMD Gaming Evolved are functionally the same but Raptr is more for general use. AMD Gaming Evolved is specifically used for AMD cards and I doubt it's full of ads.
Not experience with music, but I have done it on and off for fun with my friends playing games.
Pick up OBS, because it is easy, the devs are awesome, and it is open source. Donate money if you plan on using it.
Log onto twitch.
then follow this guide or this guide. Or both, whatever I'm not the police. But instead of your main scene focus being on a window or application, you'll want to capture from your camera.
One of the main issues with video and streaming something like playing music live- if you have a lot of movement on screen, you're going to be losing information when streaming at 30fps. That's why something like (e)sports is shot to display at 60fps. Leave nothing to the imagination. So that's something to think about when you design your stream.
Open Broadcast Software (referred to as OBS) is the most common software used by twitch streamers and people who record and upload pc games. Their screen capture setting is pretty decent as well
Link here: [link]
This will probably be buried, but there is an awesome free game/screen recording/streaming software called Open Broadcaster. It works realllllyyyyy great, and it's open source!
LINK!
The main OBS release does not support VCE yet, but there's an experimental branch here that you can try out, if you want.
try using Open Broadcaster Software and then googling some settings. it's a much better program IMO and it's free with no watermarks. it's mainly used for streaming though so us it however you want.
The OBS rewrite actually uses x264 to encode the video. OBS's issue with audio sync was caused by a bug in it's code that was fixed a few month ago.
ffmpeg was mostly used for audio sampling and the GPL AAC encoder, although with a recent commit, it can used for local video recording.
Additionally, the biggest issue with audio sync with ffmpeg solutions was/is using -r to indicate framerate instead of -framerate. I haven't had an issue with audio sync since switching.
The best program I've used is called Open Broadcaster Software.
You can find the site here - [link]
This allows live streaming or just local recording, very simple and easy to use. Doesn't strain your CPU so you can enjoy the game as you normally would.
Not to tell you what to do, but have you considered using OBS instead of Xsplit? First of all, its completely free, second it really does perform way better than Xsplit and taxes the computer its running on less. As others have suggested in here, the flickering problem can also be caused by high CPU usage.
Either way, keep up the great work dude!
I can't provide a screenshot, but here's how mine is set up on two monitors:
Monitor 1: game
OBS: Streaming. I'll usually have it in the front with the preview going.
TeeBoard in background for all notifications. This is usually behind other programs just because I don't need it up front.
The regular browser Twitch chat, popped out. I don't like looking at my viewer count so I just keep that up while the rest is minimized.
My bot and Notepad++ (my bot is custom coded and sometimes I need to change something on the fly, if you use a GUI bot like Ankhbot keep that open).
I found the answer with some googling, it's always puzzled me too.
"Yep, this is known as "frame roulette". The character blinks on and off every frame, and since the capture card captures every other frame, there's a 50% chance it will capture only the frames where the character is invisible. (You'll notice it only happens sometimes.)"
Here's a link to the forum I found the answer on.
I'd be very interested to see a video on how to do this. The effect is awesome!
I'd recommend Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) to do the screen recording. It's pretty capable, and has a very easy-to-learn interface.
Next time you make a video, be sure to capture straight from your screen, and make sure the settings for the video being captured are not set to an 'interlaced' mode. Interlaced Video uses alternating scan-lines to get more data into a video, but looks like crap when displayed on a 'progressive' (full-picture-per-frame) screen such as your computer monitor. This is why you see this 'comb' kinda artifact near the motion. I have no idea how you got an interlaced video from a non-interlaced source (your computer screen), there are many ways you could have but whatever you're using for capture, either re-configure it or try out the highly recommended Open Broadcaster Software. It's not just for broadcasting,you can also save video to file with it.
All that said, nice contraption!
Hi! You can use a streaming software and save the content on your computer instead of broadcasting it to a streaming platform. I tried several of them, and I chose OBS (easy to setup and use, and free) : [link] korax.
J'ai découvert 2 outils bien pratique pour réaliser cette vidéo
- Un soft open source de capture/streaming vidéo. très intuitif, facile d'utilisation. Un tuto en passant
- L'imgur de la vidéo. Drag&Drop, rien de plus facile. Pas d'inscription, peu de limite pour les "petits fichiers"
[link] is useful for more than just streaming. And you don't have to be streaming to record. I guess it won't let you edit, but it is easy for quick recordings.
From the homepage:
- File output to MP4 or FLV
I don't know how you can even record in 360p these days but I suggest you upgrade your recording software. I recommend OBS, it's not just for streaming. Its super easy to set up and use. [link]
OBS. Just set the output to a folder on your PC.
EDIT: This is actually the streaming software a bunch of people use to put their stuff on Twitch. I think I originally heard about it on one of Kenji's streams. I use it to record my drafts so that I can analyze them later or get feedback from friends.
I appreciate the effort you put in this, but I'd like to point out that there are a lot of better (at least easier and free) solutions out there.
If you have an AMD GPU (HD 7700 Series and up) you might want to consider Raptr (AMD Gaming Evolved). It's capable of doing the same thing as Shadowplay (instant replays) with no performance loss. You're able to record at [email protected]
If you have AMD and want some more customization for your stream or recording I recommend a fork of OBS with support for AMD hardware encoding (OBS fork download). This uses the same technology as Raptr so it shouldn't affect performance, but it isn't a stable release yet so there might be some memory leaks in it causing it to freeze every so often (depending on quality).
For Nvidia, just use Shadowplay. The default OBS version already supports Nvidia encoding, so no worries if you want to use that.
If anyone needs help setting recording stuff up, send me a PM.
EDIT: Also, what's up with that codec? They call it a lossless codec and the first thing they're explaining is that they use better compression?
Yes this can be done. PC1 - gaming pc - runs the game and OBS (no brainer.)
PC2 - you're going to run an instance of NGINX with RTMP plugin.
PC1 would then stream directly to PC2. PC2 would then accept the stream, transcode it, then spit it out to Twitch.
Here's a link from the OBS forums addressing this. OBS FORUMS
I really wish more people would know this software, this implements the codec required to capture games which uses amd gpus.
Bandicam has this already implemented on their software, you could also use this codec in tandem with dxtory.
Almost the same performance hit with dxtory + lagarith, and Bandicam MP4, but the main difference is the output file size:
Dxtory: Around 90% file size reduction vs the lagarith codec
Bandicam: Around 35% file size reduction vs the MP4 codec
Or if you want a free option, there's an OBS branch with AMD VCE implemented
Raptr/AMD gaming evolved is garbage.
If you're wondering, I'm using crossfired 7870 + r9 270x and the performance hit is just 15-20%
A lot of people don't realize this, but there is a version of OBS compiled for AMD VCE support. AMD VCE is the equivalent of the built in H.264 encoder on Nvidia cards. It's been there for years, but no one has made any way to take advantage of it. It's got as little impact as ShadowPlay.
Yeah, would be really fun to watch.
Quick tip, I would recomend using OBS it's a free broadcasting program that's quick and easy to use. Can probably find some good tutorials on how to set it up properly on youtube.
I am a partnered twitch streamer w/ that kind of upload. Works for games likes visual novels and the Binding of Isaac. Or heavily pixely games. Never try 3D games though.
My settings : [link]
- Open Broadcaster Software Free.
Pretty alright to use, takes a moment to setup. - Fraps Costs money
Easy to use. Records very well, but demands alot from your computer. (Might be outdated)
This is just personal experience with the software. I've only recorded older games with these, and it worked well. Not sure about 1080p. Though you sure need a lot of free space/HDD space.
A quick google search might be more help.
^Hope ^atleast ^something ^helped..
Kinda agree. But the author also wrote about Ubuntu and Firefox phone. Both are free and secure. Also to the author, there is Open Broadcaster Software ([link]) for screencasting. Anyway, good article and the takeaway should be: always use FLOSS programs. (One has to fight for his freedom constantly, even today.)
easy guide to make your own liveplays:
Install obs
Set up a new scene
add windowcapture -> osu window
add webcam,
optional: set up osu!Stream info to show songname etc.
place/resize everything
use the following settings for obs: [link]
record
Hey, if you want to record videos try looking at Open Broadcast Software. It runs a lot smoother than FRAPS does. Or if you have a recent Nvidia Graphics Card, use GeForce Shadow Play.
For OBS:
Right click on the field that says "Scenes" and select "Add Scene" call it something like "Desktop" or games
Right click on the "Sources" field and select "Game Capture"
Select "Use Hotkey" and change it to whatever button you'd like. This is how the program knows what game you are in. IE, hit start recording then open the game and press that hotkey.
Click "Settings" next to "Start Streaming" and go the the "Encoder" tab.
Select "x264" (You can use the Nvidia one if you have a CUDA capable card"
Change the max bitrate to something between 16000 and 24000 for best quality
The audio shout be one AAC at the bitrate 320
Click the "Broadcast Settings" tab and change the mode to "File Output Only" and select the filepath and default file name you'd like
Click the "Video" tab and make sure the FPS is set to something your computer is capable of, like 60
Now you're all set. Open up OBS when you want to record and hit "Start Recording", open up the game and press your hotkey. This method with save you a ton of space and it has a way lower overhead than FRAPS.
The Nvidia one is self explanitory. Open up GeForce Experience and select "Preferences" and select the ShadowPlay tab on the left. Setup is similar and much more straight forward. The quality on ShadowPlay is amazing and takes less than 1% overhead since it's just dumping the VRAM to a video.
I'm only familiar with Windows.
Open Broadcaster Software "OBS" is pretty easy to use to record.
Best of all, it's open source and free.
Others: CamStudio, Camtasia, Quicktime player, Jing.
I know people with macs use ScreenFlow.
EDIT: forgot about DOgaws, another good alternative.
I think the idea of paid subscriptions to streaming services turns some people off from doing so. Which is why I'm here to tell you about OBS. [link] It's not exceedingly difficult to get 720 out of it, which is fine for twitch.
Stream your ops, gents!
I use Open Broadcaster Software myself. It's often used for streaming games but you can also record to a file with it. It's free, fairly easy to setup, and works with TF2 well.
For screen recording, I use Open Broadcaster Software. You can record the entire screen or just certain windows. You can hook in different feeds like a webcam and it will overlay the video in real time. It's a little complicated to set up if you aren't very technical, but you should be able to find plenty of tutorials online. Once you have it set up you can save different profiles for easily switching between different recording modes.
Use OBS... As for the shadowplay / raptor recommendations....
You can use your GPU to record(liek shadow play or raptor) even in OBS.
For Nvidia set the encoder to "NVENC" - Nvidia gpu record
Or AMD set the encoder to "VCE" - AMD gpu record
These are basically just a superior version of intel quicksync but better. (Using integrated gpu's on core processors). Basically x264 is the superior solution in terms of quality, however the performance hit on the pcu can be quite heavy.... Using NVEC / VCE (gpu) encoding is very very low performance hit at the cost of some quality. The best work around (provided you have bandwith) is too just increase the bit slightly over what you would ideally use in x264...
GL
For the first part of your question, this post includes a ton of useful information for first-time streamers who are looking to set up their OBS.
>So in order to do few of this fun stuff I mentioned, I need some onscreen text writing without tabbing the game. Any app for that?
I'm not too sure what to say about this for this. Maybe some of the built-in Windows features could help? I honestly have no idea.
I don't know anything about Overwolf either, but I've never heard of anything out-performing OBS.
OBS is probably using a CPU-based x264 encoder by default, but under Encoding settings, it can be configured to use nVidia's NVENC just like Shadowplay.
AMD users can also use this fork to enable AMD VEC support.
Open Broadcaster Software is what I use for recording and streaming. It is by far the best option available and is totally free. Integrates with Twitch and has a ton of plugins.
Can be a bit daunting to set up at first but once you get the hang if it, works beautifully and very reliably.
For editing the videos, I use Adobe Premiere Pro. You can get it for quite cheap with a subscription (like under 50€ a year). I have also tried out a few others but nothing else really came close to the ease of use of Premiere Pro.
openbrodcaster is free and open source and is a great software but if you want to pay I recommend bandicam it is a very nice software that can record screen or capture opengl directx content
Might take a look at OBS and Nginx with the RTMP plugin.
This isn't going to provide a multicast stream, Nginx will act as a relay for unicast RTMP streams.
OBS runs on Windows, and VLC should be able to attach to the RTMP stream URL for clients.
- Download OBS.
- Configuration:
- Choose what you want to stream.
- Start streaming.
I wouldn't expect any more specific tips because everything else (whether you want to show your face, interact with chat, play music etc.) is a personal choice. Plus we're all more-less new to streaming.
Use OBS, it's open sourced, free, very customizable, lets you combine multiple video feeds, and you can add a ton of plugins to it, so you can show what keys you're pressing on the screen.
If you want something simpler, gyazo can make easy gifs, but it looks pretty ugly.
>I am interested in a new graphics card and the one thing holding me back from the fantastic value that AMD cards offer is poor GVR benchmarks.
? doesnt amd have a delicated encode aka VCE which is only available on newer graphic cards
you are not required to use gvr
you can use obs + vce. You could ask around the quality.
Try Open Broadcaster. Has no watermarks and its open source free.
Not sure how to work with it though, since ive been using fraps for the longest. But I hear great quality videos can be made from it.
OBS just released a mac version yesterday. I haven't had a chance to test it yet but in my opinion OBS is by far the best broadcasting software for windows, so the mac version can't be far off.
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from my limited knowledge of streaming the limit that twitch set was around 3.5 mbs, this is my source: [link] (comment from twitch employee)
Check out OBS. It's open sourced and free. It's a tiny bit tougher to set up than things like FRAPS, but it's allows you to control compression and graphics and all kinds of neat things.
The video was okay, I didn't like that there was echo in the background but that's something you can fix later with some editing in Audacity and having some sound dampening material. The game quality was what I expected, that's how it looks like on my rig. I assume you used a webcam to record yourselves, I recommend getting a DSLR to get better quality. I also noticed that you used some free-trial capture software, I recommend using OBS to record the game/screen and that way you won't have that watermark at the centre-top and can record longer videos. To be fair I have a feeling that she didn't get briefed about the game and how to control it beforehand, but I think that was intentional because that's the video you wanted to make, fair enough I guess. It would've been easier if she used a controller instead of KB&M when playing ETS2 and you can do the same as well if you do have a controller.
Do with this feedback as you see fit. Personally I didn't enjoy well that's not entirely true, I thought it was okay. If you do plan on uploading videos regularly then I do recommend that you take my feedback into account.
Well, I think this post is getting too long so I'll leave it as is, thanks for sharing.
As others have stated, I personally use OBS these days.
I started out with Fraps, then went to Bandicam, then moved on to OBS and haven't looked back since.
It's just a solid piece of recording software, easy to use, and quite configurable too.
Check out this guide if you're planning on using it: [link]
Good luck!
Open Broadcasting Software is technically intended for streaming, but it's really good at recording too. No watermarks, no special paid version, and no recording limit except for how much space you have. The only downside is it isn't as polished as most other recording software.
TagPro Replays Extension by [ballparts](/u/goodygood_274) is great for recording quick high-definition highlight clips and then you can render/convert them and throw them into a highlights montage with music and various FX later.
OBS is a much more complete option that has the capability to capture sound from multiple sources as well as your screen. You can record to your computer or stream live to Twitch or YouTube or whatever you choose. I use Soundflower to route the different audio channels through OBS, but I think it's only for Macs? There is also a program called "LineIn" that does essentially the same thing. Streaming is tough and a lot of work and truthfully I'm a total beginner at it still. Pigoon, [Ron Spawnson](/u/RonSpawnsonTP), and [BBQChicken](/u/splanky222) are a few of the best at it, so if you want to stream they'd be some good people for you to talk to.
Otherwise, for readily available stuff that doesn't have a time limit, Quicktime has a "screen record" option built in, but it doesn't capture sound.
[link] is the easiest option (and it's free). It does have some issues though. I sometimes have to restart the stream because a feed to one channel dies for some reason.
Another option I've tried which seemed to be the most stable one - albeit a bit more complicated to set up - is to install and setup your own nginx server on your machine. (how-to that I used: [link])
Both requires only 1 OBS/whatever instance to work.
For League (Since they just LOVE to have a window for the lobby and a DIFFERENT window for the actual game, which makes it hard as hell to capture properly in OBS -- They also love to start their software off with loud sounds/music :) ):
Get: [link]
Create 2 Scenes: LoLLobby and LoLGame (Name them whatever, just know one is the lobby and one is the game).
Add Game Captures or Window Captures to both scenes (whichever captures the window perfectly for you. Note: it won't recognize the lobby nor the game until you actually click the window, they're apparently invisible to OBS when in the background).
On the right side of OBS, click Plugins. Go in the Scene Switcher plugin. And tell it to switch between the two windows when one window becomes active and the other becomes inactive. I'm sure you'll figure out this part easy enough.
There you go. Now, it will automatically switch between the two. Happy twitching!
As for Fallout, I've never streamed it. I'd say just go with Game Capture.
one fact is he is recording at a rediculously stupid frame rate. as he should lock it to 30 or 60 fps. as for youtube videos-and im just guessing here- at an amateur level. 30 fps is perfectly fine. but, I've used fraps before and i hate it. records in only .avi, and is terribly massive. My best suggestion is switch over to a different program like Open Broadcast Software as its much more customizable AND its free!
FYI, Aero should not be disabled. Enabling Aero makes Window capture work much, much better, and if you want to capture your Monitor, I recommend instead using DWM Monitor capture with Aero enabled.
I also agree with others that 720p30 at 2000kbps is a much better place to start.
I did some research about this a few weeks ago in another thread. Supposedly the Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910 supports 60FPS at 640x480, 640x360 and 320x240 resolution. But the 60FPS feature was removed in the newer C920 version.
No clue why tho.
There are some topics around the reddit and OBS forums.
[link] is one.
With google hangouts and a decent overlay you could make the podcast a lot more interesting if you're sticking to just posting them on youtube. There are a lot of people out there that record group video chat podcasts with OBS. There's tons of resources out there to get it set up and its very easy. Yes, its more work but your production value would skyrocket over the current format.
There is also a fork of OBS (by an official dev) that exposes AMD's VCE (video codec engine) in the program, that you can use your GPU to encode just like Shadowplay or Raptr.
I've been using it to stream and record for the last week and a half since I got my new GPU - it's worked perfectly. I have it set to use AMF rather than OVE and in the AMD VCE encoding settings and AMF advanced settings 'quality' rather than 'fast' (with no FPS impact).
Look into Open BroadCast Software specifically they have a linux client as well. From there if you are wanting to host all parts yourself you would set up nginx as a rtmp relay/buffer proxy. After that you need to set up a flash/java/html5 player to point to the nginx rmtp server. I personally never went that far (I just collect all my different streams to one central server and have another OBS switch between those for multi-computer streaming stuff)
I would recommend against FRAPS, as the free version has a watermark IIRC. It also makes huge files that have to be optimized.
OBS is the best solution for recording video. It's a streaming platform by design, but handles local recording perfectly as well.
I use a tool called Snip that creates a text file and a JPG file with the album art. Then you only have to follow the tutorial that /u/DeezjaVu has posted below and configure it to your liking.
But be careful when streaming music to which you don't have permission of!
Downscaling is the way to go:
> Downscaling will always be better performance. The reason is because the downscaling process in OBS costs almost nothing. The output image is much smaller, requires less throughput, and requires less encoding time as well because it's smaller.
I've experimented a little with this and you can use OBS in preview mode on your main monitor to show what's on the other screen with little to no discernible lag for the viewer.
Great vid.
May I suggest OBS for recording. It's free and effective.
I don't know why the option was removed exactly. I suspect that they just didn't want to maintain two different video exports.
You do have other options though. If I'm exporting demos to an editable video format, I use OBS to record the demo as I play it back. I can record it to a variety of different formats and at whatever quality I want. Recently the option to use the NVEC (nvidia) encoder was added and I've noticed a significant improvement in FPS and performance while recording or streaming. This particular option is helpful if you have an Nvidia GPU but OBS will work with whatever.
There are other game capture tools out there like Fraps. I like OBS because it's relatively easy and it's completely free.
It's lightweight and records quite well. I use it for every match (that I remember to turn it on).
It's specifically made for streaming games but could of course be used for screen-capture as well. The audio settings can be a little confusing maybe but just fiddle with it and you should eventually get it to work.
Make an account on Twitch. Download and install OBS, spend about 10 minutes configuring it, there's a ton of guides. It's that simple.
If you have even a semi decent connection and rig you'll be fine. I can stream with little to no lag on 3MBPS upload.
I have not used Shadowplay, but from my understanding it's a program that records video with little impact on performance.
I believe that Amd Gaming Evolved is capable of this.
Also, if you're planning on using OBS, there's an OBS branch with Amd VCE support. I have used this with no issues for live streaming and it didn't seem to have any impact on performance.
I hope I'm not stepping on any toes in here Destiny, but dodgepong (one of the admin's over at the OBS forum) had a pretty in-depth step by step on a certain mixer that's not too pricey.
/u/JAYBOOZY, scroll down to the second post in this thread: [link]
>Is there anything bundled with Windows 8.1 that will allow me to record, edit, and talk over? Thanks in advance.
Download OBS to record stuff and used windows movie maker to render it
Another thing I'd like to add is using OBS as opposed to Bandicam or anything else. [link]
It's free but a slight learning curve. Regardless of it's learning curve, you possibly should learn a good bit about it if you plan on recording gameplay. Things like resolution, FPS, bitrate, your x264 presets, and all that good stuff should be taken into account.
If you have an nvidia card, you could just use Shadowplay, otherwise OBS (usually used for streaming) is also quite good for recording if you set a high enough bitrate and it is good for recording both game audio and a microphone. Fraps or dxtory are also options but they aren't free.
If you have an NVIDIA card, ShadowPlay will be able to store video even when you aren't actively recording, and also record on demand, all with a low impact on performance, since it uses the card's encoder.
I believe Raptr has a similar thing for AMD cards, but I'm not sure. If neither are good for you, then OBS will be your best bet.
It doesn't.
Most hacks don't work by interacting directly with the game. That is very easy to detect. Instead they generally use an Aero Overlay.
[link] Using OBS, Xsplit or almost any "Streamer" software you could hide a hack.
Streamers for other games have gotten busted for it when their configs broke and their normally hidden hacks got streamed for all the world to see.
It is completely inconclusive. And in the end it doesn't matter because everyone already made up their mind.
For what? Open Broadcaster? Not sure why not, the first thing a Google search gives is:
It's video capture, but you can change the settings and just grab audio. I have multiple profiles set up for grabbing video for different purposes, or just audio, mainly because it's a lot faster to just select a new profile than go in and change all the settings. It's not the most user friendly software, but it has a lot of capability, and I prefer that sometimes over a simple UI without any options.
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Yes there's a sub, /r/BitGamerDotTV but there have been not much activity, since we are not so many people right now.
There's no need to sign up to tip or comment, you click a button and it opens your local wallet and ask for confirmation (you can change the amount) and the doge will be delivered and shown in the website. Unregistered users will be named as GuestXXX in the chat.
To stream it is easy to sign up, a regular form and an email verification will get you ready. Bitgamer support most streaming software since it's a regular rtmp address, so there shouldn't be much trouble. I use Open Breadcaster Software (OBS) and it works great. I also haven't seen any limitations when it comes to streaming content, but I guess adult stuff is not allowed.
Yes there are some fees right now, but only for the tip withdrawals. ~~I think it was around 30%?~~ It is 10%, fixed.
There is a small how-to about configuring OBS that is shown when you are ready to broadcast, and most users will be happy to help setting it up, both on reddit and on the live chat.
About security, all the transactions are done with the block.io api, so they should be secure enough. I haven't had any problem, besides some totally understandable bugs that /u/dogeqrcode is always eager to fix (he even tend to tip extra for telling him).
If you want to check it out, I will be streaming some Gimp in a while, showing a user how to put doge faces on pics with the "doge-ball" topic, here. :)
EDIT: fixed the withdraw fee.
Here's how I do mine: [link]
Using the same window I see lets people see if their message came through.
Using NightDev's plugin, one client can receive a message while the other misses it, especially during hungry hungry chat days, like yesterday. So it can seem like you got the message (since Nightdev's plugin did, and it's being shown on-stream) but you never actually see it (as the client you're actually reading didn't).
No delay is great. And i don't think in the future there will be a scaling issue. Its working great right now, Why make something worse.
I don't think there is a cap. I stream at 3500
The English scene is growing. Right now its a tightly nit community that support each other.
The best bot to use is Meowbot. @theertzel is the man behind it all.. He is streaming right now [link]
I am in a team which is partnered. Obviously Hitbox, like twitch will take half and then whatever your team has in a contract for you.
Hitbox is really working on North American scene right now :)
The Chroma key can be used in OBS.
I use subalert It works great for everything.
App is getting better. Notifications are hit and miss. They work for me but not for other people I know.
Not sure but there was a big partnership with Freedom from Youtube recently.
The Hitbox Fav program which lets the community vote for there up and coming streamer. Also depending what region you are in you may get feature. Also since the user base is smaller than twitch its easier to find smaller streamers.
Game database is always updated. I believe Hitbox get the database from somewhere but I forgot the name.
The community, The Service and also the no delay are much better than twitch. These three keep be streaming here daily.
I hope I could help you a little bit. Sorry for grammar and spelling mistakes
Open Broadcaster Software. It's completely open-source and so there are no stupid limitations or watermarks and it is completely free. It's every bit as powerful as FRAPS once you tweak with the settings a bit.
I'm a big fan of using After Effects and Photoshop together now for basketball gifs. The reason, Photoshop only allows a certain amount of colours, and using a trick from After Effects allows for more.
Here's a really good video to explain how to do this made by /u/matt01ss - [link]
For putting text on gifs I still use Photoshop, because After Effects has so much to it.
I know a lot of people use [link] to get content from streams on League Pass and on Ballstreams.
For Youtube, I think I put on the guide, VLC player is incredible, super easy, and you don't have to download full videos.
Hosts - I still use Imgur, I think the quality is better than gfycat. Gfycat for really large files (because Imgur has a size limit of 50mb). Streamable seems pretty good so far.
Great vid - if you want to record videos without the watermark, look in to Open Broadcast Software. Ostensibly it's for streaming content to, say, Twitch - but you can use it to record to your HD too. 100% free, and no watermarks!
I personally use Chatty to monitor my chat. I can keep track which viewers are in the room/joining/leaving and it supports Twitch commands. About the delay you will always have delay i always have like 20 seconds delay.
To fill you guys in on QuickSync, it's Intel's brand for the HD video encoder built into modern Intel CPUs. It uses the "HD Graphics" part of the chip, which isn't used at all by most gamers (those with dedicated GPUs), meaning it uses virtually no CPU/GPU resources.
Read here for more: [link]
As much as it may seem like a cool idea. I generally do not think that it is sensible to display a viewer count on-stream.
Ask yourself "why?"
Viewers don't want to see themselves as a number, but a human being, with true interaction. I just think displaying a viewer counter on-stream is going a little too far as to caring how many viewers there are. If people want to actually see for themselves what the viewer number is, they can see it for themselves on your channel page.
Just my thoughts on this matter.
EDIT:
I decided to help you out by making this: [link]
Change "YourChannelUsername" to your username and change "red" to the color of your choice.
You can then load that url in through the CLR Browser Plugin to OBS and you'll be good to go.
Try OBS, it encodes to x264 and even use hardware acceleration from Nvidia or Intel (Quick Sync) if you want to.
This allows me to record videos on my 6 year old box. Because it's build for streaming, first time setting it up for local recording is a bit tricky, bit i wrote a small guide (Open the spoiler)
I use OBS, it's free and after some tweaking with the settings it doesn't impact my FPS at all. It can be a little tricky to get set up (make sure you run it as an Admin), but there are plenty of youtube videos on the subject... and it's free.
If you mean streaming on a venue like Twitch or recording video for YouTube, OBS (Open Broadcasting Software) has released a new client for OSX. It's still on early rough stages so it won't be as efficient as the Windows client but it's a start.