I need help with OBS

[Syponj]

So i wanted to record my gameplay with OBS. Now i used OBS before on both AMD and Nvidia video cards. I didn't had to many problem before, now something changed, I have a RX 5600 XT card, at the beginning i didn't had any problems until one day when i imported a video in Premiere to edit it, the video had red frames ( at first i thought it was the video, but later i found it was OBS when i used the AMD advanced media framework, though i didn't had this problem using the same encoder on AMD Relieve, so i started to use on OBS the x264 encoder). Recently every video i record with OBS ( no matter what encoder i use) is extremily low quality). Are you guys having any idea what the problem could be?

[AnirbanG007]

Please provide a screenshot of your recording settings on obs

[Syponj]

1 minute ago, AnirbanG007 said:

Please provide a screenshot of your recording settings on obs

 

[Latvian Video]

3 minutes ago, Syponj said:

 

What resolution are you recording at?

[AnirbanG007]

7 minutes ago, Syponj said:

 

2500 kbps is a bit low for 1080p footage, esp if it is 60 fps.

 

You could try these settings as a baseline, for your footage. https://stream.twitch.tv/encoding/

While these settings are for streaming and not for recording, I believe you could use these as a standard fallback guide, as these provide an optimal balance between performance and quality.

If you're not satisfied with your quality, you could always bump the bitrate and find your own sweet spot without hampering your gameplay.

Also, depending on what CPU you have, you could step down from very fast, to other settings, while they take a toll on performance, quality is improved.

Set your keyframe interval to 2, and profile to main. See if these help.

 

Lastly, you could avoid recording in mp4, and use mkv. You could easily remux them to mp4, by going under File -> Remux Recordings.

[Latvian Video]

4 minutes ago, AnirbanG007 said:

2500 kbps is a bit low for 1080p footage, esp if it is 60 fps.

 

You could try these settings as a baseline, for your footage. https://stream.twitch.tv/encoding/

While these settings are for streaming and not for recording, I believe you could use these as a standard fallback guide, as these provide an optimal balance between performance and quality.

If you're not satisfied with your quality, you could always bump the bitrate and find your own sweet spot without hampering your gameplay.

Also, depending on what CPU you have, you could step down from very fast, to other settings, while they take a toll on performance, quality is improved.

Set your keyframe interval to 2, and profile to main. See if these help.

 

Lastly, you could avoid recording in mp4, and use mkv. You could easily remux them to mp4, by going under File -> Remux Recordings.

Also obs has a setting to auto remux it after the recording is stopped, so you don't have to do it manually every time

[AnirbanG007]

2 minutes ago, Latvian Video said:

Also obs has a setting to auto remux it after the recording is stopped, so you don't have to do it manually every time

Oh thanks, I didn't know that.

[Syponj]

21 minutes ago, AnirbanG007 said:

2500 kbps is a bit low for 1080p footage, esp if it is 60 fps.

 

You could try these settings as a baseline, for your footage. https://stream.twitch.tv/encoding/

While these settings are for streaming and not for recording, I believe you could use these as a standard fallback guide, as these provide an optimal balance between performance and quality.

If you're not satisfied with your quality, you could always bump the bitrate and find your own sweet spot without hampering your gameplay.

Also, depending on what CPU you have, you could step down from very fast, to other settings, while they take a toll on performance, quality is improved.

Set your keyframe interval to 2, and profile to main. See if these help.

 

Lastly, you could avoid recording in mp4, and use mkv. You could easily remux them to mp4, by going under File -> Remux Recordings.

i have ryzen 7 3700x  so i think very fast could work i'm gonna try it out, thx for the help

[AnirbanG007]

1 minute ago, Syponj said:

i have ryzen 7 3700x  so i think very fast could work i'm gonna try it out, thx for the help

I think you misread my sentence, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. The faster you go, the lower quality you get. For instance, very fast has lower quality than faster, which in turn has lower quality than fast, and medium gives better quality than fast, and so on and so forth. So what I was saying is that since you have a very good CPU, you could try using medium, or fast, or faster, depending upon how much of a hit your processor takes with these settings. The higher the quality, the more your other processes will be affected.

[Syponj]

24 minutes ago, AnirbanG007 said:

I think you misread my sentence, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. The faster you go, the lower quality you get. For instance, very fast has lower quality than faster, which in turn has lower quality than fast, and medium gives better quality than fast, and so on and so forth. So what I was saying is that since you have a very good CPU, you could try using medium, or fast, or faster, depending upon how much of a hit your processor takes with these settings. The higher the quality, the more your other processes will be affected.

i misred the sentence, now everything is ok except for Premiere, i still get red frames everytime i use the H264/265/AVC encoder which is GPU based, i'm gonna try to use other programs to see if Premiere is the problem, still when i use Amd Relive with the same encoder, it doesn't have any problems which is strange

[LogicalDrm]

18 hours ago, Syponj said:

i misred the sentence, now everything is ok except for Premiere, i still get red frames everytime i use the H264/265/AVC encoder which is GPU based, i'm gonna try to use other programs to see if Premiere is the problem, still when i use Amd Relive with the same encoder, it doesn't have any problems which is strange

Do you only see those red frames in editing or can you see them while checking video on media players? The issue could be with OBS and AMDs encoder, which IIRC is quite new thing. So if you don't have issues recording directly with AMD software, it might be just OBS' encoder code losing connection or something like that.

[Syponj]

On 2/2/2021 at 9:26 AM, LogicalDrm said:

Do you only see those red frames in editing or can you see them while checking video on media players? The issue could be with OBS and AMDs encoder, which IIRC is quite new thing. So if you don't have issues recording directly with AMD software, it might be just OBS' encoder code losing connection or something like that.

Somehow reinstaling the operating system managed to solve that problem