
P.S - I do not intend to stream my gameplay, just want to record some good quality gameplay videos.Īlright, so I've setup OBS with the Elgato and here are the results. I also read that you can get lossless recording with VirtualDub. If not, which of the Elgato files has the best quality? The. If so, how can I go about recording uncompressed/lossless recordings?

Will using OBS really improve the video/audio quality of my recordings with Elgato?

I have tried following some directions that suggest using the x264 encoder and setting "crf=0" in the special settings, but I get a warning that the encoder is overflowed (not sure if it is the correct term) and the cpu usage is almost 100% and as a result the video file is very small and won't play. In an effort to get the best quality possible out of the device I read somewhere that I can record almost uncompressed video (not sure why "almost") using OBS with Elgato, but apparently it's not that easy to set it up.

ts files (which i'm not sure but I think they're mpeg-2 encoded?) and these are kinda big, which is ok because I have the quality slider on the "best" quality setting, but it also gives the option to save mp4 files which are a lot smaller and make me wonder which of these two files has the best quality. I bought an Elgato HD60 recently and I'm kinda confused about the quality of its recordings.
