OBS studio offers a small variety of
additional features for those who know
for sure they need them under the
Advanced Settings tab a lot of these are
only useful in specific situations but
we'll try to cover what we can hear
right after this are you tired of your
streams or voice jets sounding like this
do you want the comfort and quality of
high-end headphones without sacrificing
microphone quality antlions mod mic 5 is
the perfect solution their dual capsule
microphone attaches easily and securely
to your existing headphones and fits
within any setup thanks to the modular
cable system it comes with a cable wrap
to protect your wires an optional inline
mute switch and sounds a little
something like this
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back to my OBS studio tutorial course
for 2017 and it'll be useful for a long
time because OBS doesn't update that
drastically i've got plenty of videos
about the software linked in the
playlists in the video description check
those out if you have any questions i've
probably answered them and check the
introduction video if you want to know
how this course works it's worth noting
that these settings are updated all the
time so yours might look a little
different or might have new ones too
but the general principles still apply
let's just start at the top shall we
process priority refers to well the
priority to which your computer
allocates resources and normal it's
possible on slower computers that OBS
could freeze or have issues due to
another program such as a game taking up
more power I believe it stays at above
normal by default to help prevent this
if you're using a slower computer and
running into issues with OBS freezing or
being unresponsive you can try setting
this too high but be prepared for that
de potentially harm performance in game
or your other programs because then OBS
is taking priority over those the video
settings section is typically left alone
direct3d 11 or 10 should almost
universally be used on Windows at least
and even on my rig that is the only
option you might have OpenGL available
as well which is worth trying if you
really need to troubleshoot some
performance issues NV 12 is the best
default color format to work with unless
you're using specific other color format
devices and know what you're doing
the color space and color range can
typically be left alone by choosing 709
and full instead of 601 and partial
you're able to give more dynamic range
to your video allowing room for more
color grading and so on but without any
tweaks this can make your video looked
washed out and just not appealing this
actually makes it easier to compress but
may not appeal to everyone since it does
look a little less appealing by default
next you can choose your audio
monitoring device this is for the audio
monitoring tool in the audio mixer that
we covered in previous videos this
simply assigns an output device to be
monitored - such as your headphones or
speakers or whatever you manually assign
it here
following that you can change the file
name formatting for your recordings and
replay buffers you can also add a stream
delay this is important for major events
or deering competitive matches to
prevent stream sniping but the buffer
for the delay can consume a lot of RAM
you'll have to keep your system
resources in mind with that feature next
you can set up retries for automatically
reconnecting to streaming services if
your connection is lost you can disable
this if needed I guess the only reason I
think you might want to do this
especially since you can just hit stop
streaming as if your streaming service
requires new stream keys or stream IDs
for every new connection then
reconnecting will just confuse
everything
lastly for the current version you have
some network controls the OBS team have
implemented better network code which is
vague I know but supposedly improves
stream performance which you can disable
you can also enable a low latency mode
which improves latency to your stream
but can use more system resources you
can also bind OBS to a specific network
device if you have more than one
different internet accessible network
adapters in your system for example you
could stream through one internet
connection and game through another or
use a VPN on one and not the other I
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