Running into laggy recordings!

[drifting igloo]

One More thing is that I use x264 as my encoder as of my crappy Rx 580 GPU, also because it for some reason Produces a recording that shows up with encoding errors, and doesn't even display the actual video....

I use Mkv as my video format!

I have multiple audio tracks!

And my aspect ratio is 1280x720 ( Exact same as my actual display which is for some apparent reason a fucking TV wooo )

[spice crane]

Show screenshots of all of your OBS settings

[drifting igloo]

Mhm ok

here u go!

If u need any other specific ones just ask

I just thought these were the only important ones

[drifting igloo]

Also I only need to record so yea

Streaming isn't really relevant to me

[thorny dove]

send an example of these "encoding errors"

[drifting igloo]

That only happens in the case I use uk My GPU as the encoder

Which I dont bec its shitty

[drifting igloo]

Let me look for a recording gimme sec

[thorny dove]

oh so your issue is just skipped frames?

[drifting igloo]

Ig yea

Idk its what it says, not sure what it means but mkv is supported format... the entire recording is black and the error pops up in the end

Only the audio is clear

[thorny dove]

!movies

[somber verge]

Windows' default "Movies & TV" player cannot play HEVC/H.265 video playback by default and struggles with high FPS videos,

You can play HEVC using any of these video players:

⠂VLC, get it at https://www.videolan.org/
⠂#934458649865248768 an extensible, keyboard driven video player

[drifting igloo]

yeeee ik but my monitor is somehow a TV

....

[thorny dove]

so?

[drifting igloo]

ur saying Its a bad source to playback a video with

[thorny dove]

??

[spice crane]

It is

[thorny dove]

im talking abt the video player not your monitor

[drifting igloo]

Im guessing I use VLC

[thorny dove]

either

[spice crane]

Do you?

[drifting igloo]

Not sure lmao

I never noticed if I used a VLC

Ive been using this as my only source of playingback my video besides ofc uk The editing software I use where i toss in the clip or video file

[spice crane]

Open a video and send a fullscreen screenshot

[drifting igloo]

Well im not sure how to use a MPV plus whats the difference exactly?

[spice crane]

it’s a different program for playing videos

[drifting igloo]

here u go

[thorny dove]

..?

[spice crane]

You’re using movies and tv

Install VLC Media Player

[thorny dove]

oh i didnt read mb

[spice crane]

https://www.videolan.org/

[drifting igloo]

Ok sure I will in the morning it's like 1:30am for me

But even if I get a new video player what difference will it make?

It would still be jumping frames wouldn't it?

[thorny dove]

youll be able to watch the video

[thorny dove]

unlike here

[spice crane]

No clue, the issue could be several things

!statsdock

[somber verge]

In order for you to make sure OBS does not lag while it's recording, you should make the Stats Dock shown, just like this:

It is prefered to have a second monitor so you are able to see how it's doing without having to alt tab (by having OBS on your second monitor)

It is normal to get a few dozens of skipped frames when alt tabbing

How to enable stats dock:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/840243812269162516/1032275596417433640/obs64_ommbxnbj5O.gif

[spice crane]

Enable that in OBS

It’ll tell you what % of frames are being skipped

[drifting igloo]

Even if I knew the frames skipped that wouldn't exactly tell me what's causing it lmao??

[spice crane]

It would tell you if it’s OBS that’s at fault or something like your video player

[drifting igloo]

That's only because I used my gpu if I use my cpu its visible

[spice crane]

And it’d help to fix the problem faster

[thorny dove]

yeah but if your gpu doesnt lag then you should use it instead

[drifting igloo]

Ah ok hmm I'll c tmr ig but I mean how could I tell while using it bec if I use it I'd obv use it in game and the thing would be in obs and I got one screen...

[spice crane]

you could alt + tab

But you can record while you’re not in the game

[drifting igloo]

.... Its the thing that bottlenecks my whole PC and goes up to 100% usage for MC....

I don't think it can't lag

[drifting igloo]

Any other thing besides VLC video player which I could use to stop encoding lag

[drifting igloo]

I experience the lag mainly in game recording when most of my resources are used, plus it be more accurate because it be the thing I record

[drifting igloo]

Oh wow vlc fixed my problem the clips are no longer laggy, but what if I use MPV, would it be better? or preferred? Also any other way I could maybe fix up the lag?

[thorny dove]

your video player doesn't stop encoding lag

[drifting igloo]

yea ik