Either OBS or dxtory (if you consider $50 cheap compared to the costs of other programs) utilizing a x264/h264 codec. You'll get similar video quality with each if dxtory uses that kind of setup, although OBS will have fewer options for controlling the levels of multiple audio sources (mumble vs in game, etc.), if that matters.
Shadowplay is great for file size as well, as someone mentioned, although it still has various kinks to work out and has even fewer audio/mic control options than OBS. Its video quality, especially in the color, is slightly lower than both OBS and Dxtory at comparable bitrates (with the tradeoff usually being that Shadowplay ends up causing less fps loss).
Either OBS or dxtory (if you consider $50 cheap compared to the costs of other programs) utilizing a x264/h264 codec. You'll get similar video quality with each if dxtory uses that kind of setup, although OBS will have fewer options for controlling the levels of multiple audio sources (mumble vs in game, etc.), if that matters.
Shadowplay is great for file size as well, as someone mentioned, although it still has various kinks to work out and has even fewer audio/mic control options than OBS. Its video quality, especially in the color, is slightly lower than both OBS and Dxtory at comparable bitrates (with the tradeoff usually being that Shadowplay ends up causing less fps loss).
I use shadowplay all the time and it works great. Just have to make sure your display settings is set to "fullscreen", and not "fullscreen windowed" or any others. Took me a while to figure this out.
Yeah, Shadowplay worked absolutely perfectly for me for local recordings, although I had all sorts of problems when trying to stream (fullscreen) with it. That said, I'm on an SLI setup, and many others have reported both perfect stream results... and bugs/heavy frame loss with local recordings. Lots of system specific issues, unfortunately.
Lots of choices, although if it absolutely must be free, it's really between OBS and Shadowplay. Afaik, Fraps gives great quality, but it will result in the massive (100+ gb/30 min) files that the default dxtory codec is known for.
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If your recording PC has a NVIDIA 600 Series GPU or above, you can capture both Desktop and In-Game using NVidia Shadowplay. The Software compresses it to H.264 MPEG4 on the fly, and can record voice if you want. I've been able to record native resolutions of 1920x1080 at a silky smooth 60 FPS.
A 10 Minute round of NS2 is about 4 Gigs, which is a hell of a lot better than the 1GB/Min of other recorders.
I use this for my videos and desktop recording. It also allows you to cast to twitch.tv.
It is free as it comes with all Nvidia drivers, chances are you might already have it installed
I use OBS for my twitch streams every night mostly because it allows for Voice activated mic, whereas Nvidia Shadow play is ON or OFF toggle. I can't comment on it's recording to file quality, as that is what I have the above for.
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@SteveRock I use obs for all my videos and streams. The only issue is you have to rename your video recording each time, but hey, other than that it is an amazing program.
Bandicam supports both nVidia nvenc and AMD APP. Either way, using the graphics card accelerated processing is the best way to go, whether you use it with OBS, Bandicam or Shadowplay doesn't really matter. I use OBS for streaming and Bandicam for local recording (I have a Radeon card) but will switch over to OBS for recording just as soon as they support AMD APP. I find Bandicam extremely simple and easy to use though, so it's a great starting point if you don't care about customising your H264 settings all that much. It's also extremely lightweight and does not affect performance. Currently I take a slight performance hit recording locally with OBS due to it not supporting the hardware accel.
Shadowplay is perfect, if your system is supported (negligible performance impact since it is HW processing not software). Otherwise OBS would look good.
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Probably OBS?
https://obsproject.com/
I believe it is compressed video in MP4 or FLV format if you choose. It also supports very high bitrates if you choose.
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Shadowplay is great for file size as well, as someone mentioned, although it still has various kinks to work out and has even fewer audio/mic control options than OBS. Its video quality, especially in the color, is slightly lower than both OBS and Dxtory at comparable bitrates (with the tradeoff usually being that Shadowplay ends up causing less fps loss).
I use shadowplay all the time and it works great. Just have to make sure your display settings is set to "fullscreen", and not "fullscreen windowed" or any others. Took me a while to figure this out.
Lots of choices, although if it absolutely must be free, it's really between OBS and Shadowplay. Afaik, Fraps gives great quality, but it will result in the massive (100+ gb/30 min) files that the default dxtory codec is known for.
A 10 Minute round of NS2 is about 4 Gigs, which is a hell of a lot better than the 1GB/Min of other recorders.
I use this for my videos and desktop recording. It also allows you to cast to twitch.tv.
It is free as it comes with all Nvidia drivers, chances are you might already have it installed
I use OBS for my twitch streams every night mostly because it allows for Voice activated mic, whereas Nvidia Shadow play is ON or OFF toggle. I can't comment on it's recording to file quality, as that is what I have the above for.
Google "obs nvenc" to find out about it. I have not tried it as I have an amd gpu.
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