Elgato with OBS or Xsplit

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Anyone else having sync issues with the elgato while using obs or xsplit? I have read that it is because the elgato's drivers are weird. I have been on both forum sits and seems like a lot of people are having this issue.

The issue is when recording with the elgato, and webcam. The webcam video (mouth movement) will be fine at first, then later on in the video the audio will be off sync by as much as a couple of seconds. I have never been able to fix this, and cant find anyone who can, even the developers. This is why I do not record gameplay with my webcam on anymore. If anyone has any insight on this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
yes. There are a few settings to change. Set the scene buffer a little higher, and set the elgato setting to enable buffering, with a buffer time of 0. Also if oyu are having troubles syncing webcam and mic with the elgato, the elgato is about 1500ms behind, so you should delay your webcam and mic by about that.
 
When you get home, let me know what your buffer and bitrate are at. If you do not mind.
 
My overall scene buffer is 1500ms. My bitrate I have at 6000kb.s but that is overkill for youtube 720
 
Wrice4 said:
So your bitrate is 6k, what is your buffer? 0?

Both of mine are 20k
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Im not sure I understand. The bitrate that you give OBS is just the maximum POSSIBLE to use. Generally with gaming, you should make this lower than what you have available. Do a speedtest. If your internet is 10Mb, you might want to set your max bitrate at 8Mb or so. Youtube says that it only uses 3-6Mb (3000-6000kb/s) for 1080p, so you would never need more than 6000.

They recommend setting the buffer the same as bitrate, so set that at 6000 as well.
You can use this link to get your recommended settings.
http://obsproject.com/estimator
 
I understand that, I was talking about recordin to the hard drive, not streaming. I should have been more specific.
 
I do not use OBS to record. The rare instances where I do, I just leave the settings the same. It does a fine job.
I usually use the elgato to record, with their software, then edit in premiere pro.
I only use it for recording if I want to do a webcam PiP live recording.
 
ohaple said:
I do not use OBS to record. The rare instances where I do, I just leave the settings the same. It does a fine job.
I usually use the elgato to record, with their software, then edit in premiere pro.
I only use it for recording if I want to do a webcam PiP live recording.
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I see, well I used to use it to record so I could put my webcam ontop of my gameplay, thats when I had the issues. Now, I dropped the webcam and just use the elgato software to record, then edit it in vegas pro 12. Do you have CBR and CFR enabled? Could you just screenshot each of the tabs and upload them here? Or send to my email ? If you want my email send me a private message.
 
Here is the log. it can be confusing to read sometimes, but shows all the settings.

13:48:47: Open Broadcaster Software v0.584b - 32bit (´・ω・｀)
13:48:47: -------------------------------
13:48:47: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3615QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
13:48:47: CPU Speed: 2294MHz
13:48:47: Physical Memory: 4095MB Total, 4095MB Free
13:48:47: stepping id: 9, model 58, family 6, type 0, extmodel 1, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 8, total cores 4
13:48:47: monitor 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1200}
13:48:47: Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 S
13:48:47: Aero is Enabled
13:48:47: -------------------------------
13:48:47: OBS Modules:
13:48:47: Base Address Module
13:48:47: 00F70000 OBS.exe
13:48:47: 60CE0000 OBSApi.dll
13:48:47: 6E8C0000 DShowPlugin.dll
13:48:47: 725D0000 GraphicsCapture.dll
13:48:47: 67F00000 NoiseGate.dll
13:48:47: 700D0000 PSVPlugin.dll
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: Adapter 1
13:48:47: Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
13:48:47: Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 1022033920
13:48:47: Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 3221221376
13:48:47: Video Adapter Output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1200}, attached=true
13:48:47: =====Stream Start: 2013-11-29, 13:48:47===============================================
13:48:47: Multithreaded optimizations: On
13:48:47: Base resolution: 1280x720
13:48:47: Output resolution: 1280x720
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: Loading up D3D10 on NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M...
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: Audio Format: 48000hz
13:48:47: Playback device Default
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Cirrus Logic CS4206B (AB 40))
13:48:47: Using quad speaker setup
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (Blue Snowball)
13:48:47: Using Mic QPC timestamps
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: Audio Encoding: AAC
13:48:47: bitrate: 96
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: device: Logitech HD Webcam C615,
13:48:47: device id \\?\usb#vid_046d&pid_082c&mi_02#6&52dd137&0&0002#{65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196}\{bbefb6c7-2fc4-4139-bb8b-a58bba724083},
13:48:47: chosen type: I420, usingFourCC: false, res: 1280x720 - 1280x720, frameIntervals: 333333-2000000
13:48:47: use buffering: true - 15000000, fourCC: 'I420'
13:48:47: audio device: Disable,
13:48:47: audio device id Disabled,
13:48:47:
13:48:47: Using directshow input
13:48:47: Using bitmap image
13:48:47: Using bitmap image
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: device: Elgato Game Capture HD,
13:48:47: device id {39F50F4C-99E1-464a-B6F9-D605B4FB5918},
13:48:47: chosen type: UYVY, usingFourCC: false, res: 1280x720 - 1280x720, frameIntervals: 333333-333333
13:48:47: use buffering: true - 0, fourCC: 'UYVY'
13:48:47:
13:48:47: device audio info - bits per sample: 16, channels: 2, samples per sec: 48000, block size: 4
13:48:47: Using directshow input
13:48:47: Scene buffering time set to 1500
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: Video Encoding: x264
13:48:47: fps: 30
13:48:47: width: 1280, height: 720
13:48:47: preset: veryfast
13:48:47: profile: high
13:48:47: keyint: 60
13:48:47: CBR: yes
13:48:47: CFR: no
13:48:47: max bitrate: 6000
13:48:47: buffer size: 6000
13:48:47: ------------------------------------------
13:48:47: MMDeviceAudioSource: Frequency for device 'Speakers (Cirrus Logic CS4206B (AB 40))' is 768000, samples per sec is 48000
13:48:47: MMDeviceAudioSource: Frequency for device 'Microphone (Blue Snowball)' is 352800, samples per sec is 44100
14:14:48: Total frames encoded: 46764, total frames duplicated: 1226 (2.62%)
14:14:48: Number of frames skipped due to encoder lag: 21 (0.04%)
14:14:48: Total frames rendered: 46736, number of late frames: 14 (0.03%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)
14:14:51:
14:14:51: Profiler time results:
14:14:51:
14:14:51: ==============================================================
14:14:51: video thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 5.467 ms] [children: 68.3%] [unaccounted: 31.7%]
14:14:51: | scene->Preprocess - [60.4%] [avg time: 3.304 ms]
14:14:51: | GPU download and conversion - [7.9%] [avg time: 0.432 ms] [children: 6.88%] [unaccounted: 1.02%]
14:14:51: | | flush - [5.65%] [avg time: 0.309 ms]
14:14:51: | | CopyResource - [1.1%] [avg time: 0.06 ms]
14:14:51: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [0.128%] [avg time: 0.007 ms]
14:14:51: Convert444Threads - [100%] [avg time: 1.015 ms] [children: 98.7%] [unaccounted: 1.28%]
14:14:51: | Convert444toNV12 - [98.7%] [avg time: 1.002 ms]
14:14:51: encoder thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 2.638 ms]
14:14:51: ==============================================================
14:14:51:
14:14:51:
14:14:51: Profiler CPU results:
14:14:51:
14:14:51: ==============================================================
14:14:51: video thread frame - [cpu time: avg 4.249 ms, total 198605 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
14:14:51: | scene->Preprocess - [cpu time: avg 2.756 ms, total 128841 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
14:14:51: | GPU download and conversion - [cpu time: avg 0.178 ms, total 8346.06 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
14:14:51: | | flush - [cpu time: avg 0.111 ms, total 5226.04 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
14:14:51: | | CopyResource - [cpu time: avg 0.019 ms, total 920.407 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
14:14:51: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [cpu time: avg 0.005 ms, total 265.202 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
14:14:51: Convert444Threads - [cpu time: avg 0.937 ms, total 87516.6 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
14:14:51: | Convert444toNV12 - [cpu time: avg 0.93 ms, total 86861.4 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
14:14:51: encoder thread frame - [cpu time: avg 1.874 ms, total 87563.4 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
14:14:51: ==============================================================
14:14:51:
14:14:51: =====Stream End: 2013-11-29, 14:14:51=================================================
 
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