Anything longer and you're better off with a normal recording.

Try to keep this somewhere from 30s to 4m (240s). Set Maximum Replay Time to whatever you desire. Now, on the Audio tab, set all the tracks to be 160 for their bitrate.Īs for the Replay Buffer tab, check the box for enabling it. Leave B-Frames on 2, you generally shouldn't touch this unless you REALLY know what you're doing. GPU should be always 0, unless you have a spare GPU, but even then its typically not worth doing. (High decodes better, but encoding can be worse sometimes). Profile should be set to high, but if you have issues use main. Preset should be set to either Max Quality or Low-latency Quality, whichever gives you the best results. Refer to Rate Control for the other options. This results in large file size, but superb quality. DON'T DO IT.įor Rate Control, select CQP and set it to 20-21 (Lower = better quality). Refer to Differences in Encoders.ĭO NOT SET RESCALE OUTPUT HERE. Skip Audio Track for now, we'll return to this. You can use MKV, but I wouldn't recommend OBS's built in remux function. Set Recoding Format to mp4, if you use multiple audio tracks (recommended). Outputįirst, start with the Recording tab, we'll be skipping over the Stream tab for this tutorial. Here we'll go through all the settings necessary for both general recording and replay buffer. Table of Contentsįollow the instructions to install OBS Studio.

It does this rather than constantly writing to a drive (typically the temp folder in C:), which can burn up SSD writes. The main advantage of using Replay Buffer over these other alternatives is that Replay Buffer uses RAM as a temp storage. This functions very similarly to NVDIA's Shadowplay and AMD's ReLive, and other programs that have a replay feature. Replay buffer allows you to save the last X seconds of Video and Audio to your disk on the press of a button.

Setting up obs for recording