Recording

Learning To Teleport

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I’ve been getting my laptop setup to be a streaming computer for my desktop. The last time I experimented with OBS over the network I used NDI integration, which had its ups and downs. I do hear that NDI 5 is a lot better, but I haven’t tested it yet. Instead I’ve been playing with Teleport, which is pretty easy to use compared to what I remember with NDI a few years ago. All you have to do is install the plugin to your streaming computer and the computer you intend to use for video capture. It’s also worth mentioning, and kinda obvious that you should also use a wired connection. It did take a little bit of trial and error, but I did get audio and video to stream perfectly to the laptop!

I haven’t done any actual streaming, but I did do a test recording of Horizon Zero Dawn without any hiccups. Now I just need to find the time to stream!… and to figure out what would be fun to stream… someday.

The Elgato has arrived!

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I’ve been playing with my new capture card since yesterday, it came a few days early! I finally have it all dialed in.

Elgato

The software isn’t that difficult to use, if you’re familiar to OBS there will be some similarities. I think the bigger problem I had was figuring out what inputs to use since I have multiple options, mainly trying to get mumble chat into the recordings. I finally perfected it tonight. Now I can simultaneously stream and record footage at the same time. Works perfectly for what I want. I’ve been testing it with all kinds of games. From Skyrim to TF2 to Hard Reset Redux to Solus Project, it handles it all without stealing any of my framerate so I can record/broadcast and enjoy my game at the same time. It was never really bad with Skyrim, but sometimes with the other games OBS was a little more demanding. That and I always had to choose between streaming and recording. While I could do both it would make me lag considerably even on good hardware.

It was nice running a UE4 game and doing a capture without worrying about a performance decrease. I think when Obduction comes out I’ll be able to capture my finest moments of stupidity in glorious 1080p 60FPS for all to cry at. 😀