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I'm thinking I could learn a lot from my mistakes in Hearthstone by capturing footage and then watching later. Often I'm like "oh, maybe that wasn't a great move" but I hardly have the time to think about the ramifications as I have to keep playing the current game.

I have a NVIDIA so I thought GeForce Experience + Shadowplay might be a good solution.

What about FRAPS? Is it worth getting the paid version?

Basically, what would be the simplest way to record and watch later without requiring any video encoding? (It's just for my own use).

One caveat I came across with FRAPS is when I tried playing back a Skyrim recording it was stuttering. It was native 2560px resolution though.

i haven't done this kind of stuff for quite some time now, but back in the days fraps was the tool everybody used. the paid edition did it's job well, especially if you could record and save the video data to another harddisk.

however, with the rise of all the streaming websites, I'd guess that there'd be a lot of similar tools out there that might also do the job (maybe even for free).

ファブリス Wrote:I have a NVIDIA so I thought GeForce Experience + Shadowplay might be a good solution.

What about FRAPS? Is it worth getting the paid version?

My experiences with using Shadowplay has been amazing. I can't imagine even giving FRAPS a chance after using it. I would definitely try it first since it's been heavily optimized to allow for real-time streaming to Shield.

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Oh awesome! Can you real-time Shadow (the last 20 mins feature) with a smaller than native resolution? That was my main concern as it could take a lot of space.

You might want to check out OBS and just stream your gameplay to Twitch and have it auto-save recordings of your stream; that way you won't have video files taking up all your hard drive space and you can just access them on Twitch any time.

As far as concern about people checking out the stream if you don't want them to, you might be able to make the stream private. If not you can just not bother setting it to show that you are playing a specific game, and no one will go to your stream anyway provided you don't advertise it.

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Interesting option. Actually my upload is not that bad it seems just tried uploading to Dropbox and it was above 200 kb/s.

Playback of "Past broadcasts" on Twitch works great too, can jump easily to any time, go back/forward.

Hmmmm. THanks actually I didn't consider it.

So you woud recommend OBS over XSplit? Xsplit is the only other one I heard of. (edit: ok so OBS is free, which is a plus )

A lot of people recommend OBS as not only a cheap (EDIT: err, free) alternative but also as an option that's just easier to use than XSplit (I've never used XSplit personally - from what it sounds like XSplit is only if you're trying to create a much more serious, high production value stream).

I've used OBS and it's very user-friendly so I highly recommend trying it out.

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Thanks again, this works well!

OBS actually makes a local recording which is quicker to watch after I played a game, but for some reason I can't use "Start recording" alone (the button is grayed out) so I'm still streaming to Twitch with "Start Streaming". I followed Twitch's guide to setup OBS.

EDIT: found it. Broadcasts Settings > Mode: File Output Only. And I am also setup to upload whenever I want sweet =)

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Last couple days I included VLC player in the stream with my favorite 8-bit music... but it seems OBS loses the window because the VLC window title changes with each track? It's really annoying each time I load OBS I have to recreate the "Window Capture" in Sources.

Any workaround for that? Or does anyone have recommendations for a mediaplayer that plays well with OBS?

If I understand correctly you want to have the current song info display somewhere on your stream. If that's the case, you want to use this http://sourceforge.net/projects/obsmusicstreamd/ . All the program does is basically output the song info from your media player to a text file as it changes tracks.

Then you want to create a source in OBS that points to the text file that program outputs. OBS will automatically update the text object on stream as the text file changes. You can also change other various settings for the text object so the text is scrolling, display font, etc.

I've not personally tried the particular program linked above but I did use some other program that did basically the same thing.

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Thanks, that wasn't the particular issue I was dealing with but I was going to look into that anyway so it will be helpful

I have found a workaround now. Basically I have to set the "Window Capture" in Sources, to the plain "VLC media player" window. And I have to make sure to click "Preview Stream" so that OBS recognises the window, and then after that I can load up a playlist, the window title changes, but OBS still captures it.

However if I loaded OBS with my last config, loaded VLC with a playlist shortcut, it wouldn't work (the window capture disappears from the stream). So it doesn't recognize the window if it doesn't have the exact same name as when the Source is setup.