{"id":282,"date":"2016-04-04T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/?p=282"},"modified":"2018-04-20T20:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T20:11:57","slug":"free-fraps-alternative-open-broadcaster-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/2016\/04\/04\/free-fraps-alternative-open-broadcaster-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Free FRAPS Alternative: Open Broadcaster Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my PC is too slow for most game-capturing software (Core2Duo E7200\/Radeon HD5700) while running Zerocron, I finally seem to have found a nice and free open source alternative: <a href=\"https:\/\/obsproject.com\/\">Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All others I tried either were too CPU-hungry and\/or had trouble recording sound.<\/p>\n<p>OBS also didn\u00b4t perform so good out of the box, I first had to tweak the settings a bit. Basically I changed the H264-encoding to &#8220;ultrafast&#8221; with medium quality, resulting in low-cpu and hdd-usage. In case you have the same problem, I thought I\u00b4d share my settings with you, relevant stuff is marked yellow. Screenshots are from OBS Version 0.657b.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-283\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-283 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_1-300x249.png\" alt=\"open_broadcaster_software_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_1-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_1-768x637.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_1.png 855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_2.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-284 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_2-300x249.png\" alt=\"open_broadcaster_software_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_2-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_2-768x637.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_2.png 855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_3.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_3-300x249.png\" alt=\"open_broadcaster_software_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_3-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_3-768x637.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_3.png 855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_4.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-286 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_4-300x280.png\" alt=\"open_broadcaster_software_4\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_4-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_4.png 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_5.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-287\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-287 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_5-300x296.png\" alt=\"open_broadcaster_software_5\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_5-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/open_broadcaster_software_5.png 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my PC is too slow for most game-capturing software (Core2Duo E7200\/Radeon HD5700) while running Zerocron, I finally seem to have found a nice and free open source alternative: Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). All others I tried either were too CPU-hungry and\/or had trouble recording sound. OBS also didn\u00b4t perform so good out of the box, I first had to tweak the settings a bit. Basically I changed the H264-encoding to &#8220;ultrafast&#8221; with medium quality, resulting in low-cpu and hdd-usage. In case you have the same problem, I thought I\u00b4d share my settings with you, relevant stuff is marked yellow. Screenshots are from OBS Version 0.657b. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nemmelheim.de\/trsgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}