[HDPhoenix]

Hey everyone

As requested, here is a rather lengthy but hopefully informative guide on how to take advantage of the many features of Xsplit, from set up to putting together the full show. Let me know what do you guys think

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[Rhodan]

Really nice video man, been looking at doing some streaming whenever I get good enough to actually make it worthwhile, already played around with Xsplit a bit before but never spent much time on it, so thank you

[NDG.Stitch]

Thanks Phoenix awsumness. (love the banshee headphone)

[deL]

Nice work Phoenix!

[SayfT]

cheers man

[rezyn8]

Excellent - will have a look at this later tonight

[SkyBreaker]

Looks good Phoenix, will eventually want to begin streaming ladder games at one stage or another and this is really helpful, props!

[inFeZa]

Woop, you just should have told me to use xsplit earlier... FME sucks..

also does the vid contain how to improve sound qual? ill have to watch after GSL

[Wawa]

Whenever I press the mute button on xplit, it only blocks my mic and not my co-caster (through skype) so people watching the stream can still hear him/her.

What can I do so that both of our mics can't be heard be the viewers?

[Sixth]

Originally Posted by Wawa

Whenever I press the mute button on xplit, it only blocks my mic and not my co-caster (through skype) so people watching the stream can still hear him/her.

What can I do so that both of our mics can't be heard be the viewers?

why doesn't your co caster just mute his/her own mic?

Also are you sure you're not muting only you mic and not system sounds?

=)

[Wawa]

Originally Posted by Sixth

why doesn't your co caster just mute his/her own mic?

Also are you sure you're not muting only you mic and not system sounds?

=)

if i mute the system sound then their will be no background music during downtime.
Also, I wanna talk to my co-caster as well during the downtime.

[HDPhoenix]

Originally Posted by Wawa

if i mute the system sound then their will be no background music during downtime.
Also, I wanna talk to my co-caster as well during the downtime.

Mmmm... that is an issue.. Let me see if I can find a work around.

[TAminimat]

Hey Pheonix would it be possible for you to log when each chapter or w/e about a certain thing starts? I just need to figure out how to get better audio quality, mines shit. I think I have VODS here www.justin.tv/minimat08

[cure]

Originally Posted by Wawa

Whenever I press the mute button on xplit, it only blocks my mic and not my co-caster (through skype) so people watching the stream can still hear him/her.

What can I do so that both of our mics can't be heard be the viewers?

Looking for an answer for this too ^

Btw great guide ! I can't belive i wasted 50 bucks buying dynno.

[HDPhoenix]

Hi guys,

I'm currently in some mountain in southern Taiwan but when I get back on Sat midnight, I'll see what I can do to address these issues ^^

[ZergGirl]

The only thing annoying about a 500 bitrate for video is.. Yes, It looks lovely when you don't move but as soon as you start playing? looks horrible (at 720p). I know the solution is to just raise it but T_T

I notice lately that software capturing is rather.. well, inefficient (uses more bandwidth looks worse - lousy compression i'm assuming). But who has the money to buy a 4k capture card eh? :P

Does anyone have a 'cheap' alternate to a software capture setup?

[Unstable]

Originally Posted by cure

Looking for an answer for this too ^

Btw great guide ! I can't belive i wasted 50 bucks buying dynno.

You will find that the mic mute only does your mic. whereas the "sound itself" covers everything else on your PC, ingame sound, skype, itunes etc

[Unstable]

Originally Posted by ZergGirl

I notice lately that software capturing is rather.. well, inefficient (uses more bandwidth looks worse - lousy compression i'm assuming). But who has the money to buy a 4k capture card eh? :P

Does anyone have a 'cheap' alternate to a software capture setup?

Pointless if you dont have more than 500bitrate upload anyway. the only thing that a capture card will do is take the strain off your CPU, if for example your using a beastly i7 anyway it wont make a difference, as no matter what quality you capture it at. it still hasto go back through xsplit and be modified to the 500bitrate anyway

[ZergGirl]

MLG free stream is a 500bitrate stream. Looks a hell of a lot better than anything else streamed at the same quality. Difference is they are using a capture card (forget exact name).. costs 4k though :S

or so I thought anyway :P

[Wawa]

Originally Posted by ZergGirl

MLG free stream is a 500bitrate stream. Looks a hell of a lot better than anything else streamed at the same quality. Difference is they are using a capture card (forget exact name).. costs 4k though :S

or so I thought anyway :P

I don't think they were streaming in 720p though.
It looked like 270p. 480p at most.

[nirvAnA]

found this gem posted by R1ch on TL, thought it would be useful for all u xsplit streamers!

On May 09 2011 08:02 R1CH wrote:
What?
I recently wrote a stream quality guide and lambasted XSplit for it's lack of multi-core encoding which severely hinders performance on modern PCs that can execute 4 or 8 threads simultaneously. I was intrigued since XSplit uses x264, which is programmed to be multi-thread capable and decided to look into it further.

Turns out XSplit ships with an old x264 encoder which either doesn't support multithreading or it is turned off by default. Thankfully due to the wonders of API compatibility, we can simply drop in a replacement encoder and get full benefit from multi-core systems! Here are two videos highlighting the difference, encoded with the exact same xsplit settings - same bitrate, same FPS, same quality - only the modified encoder.

Preview Video
Here's a preview of the difference using fast action (Quake II) with hard-to-encode scenes (motion blur, quick camera switching, etc):

Old x264: http://www.mediafire.com/?vivb4c3dckabuy3
New x264: http://www.mediafire.com/?4wz96f7i84sk8cx

How To Install
0. Close XSplit.

1. Download libx264112.zip.

2. Rename libx264-112.dll in your C:\Program Files\SplitMediaLabs\XSplit folder to libx264-112.dll.old

3. Extract the new libx264-112.dll to your C:\Program Files\SplitMediaLabs\XSplit

That's it! Now when you encode with XSplit, it will use as many cores as necessary for a good quality video.

On my Core i5 2500k @ 4GHz, I am able to use the x264 "medium" preset - the same quality that our TSL VODs are encoded in - in realtime @ 720p30. Obviously results will vary once you throw SC2 into the mix, but for those of you who use XSplit on quad core and especially i7 CPUs, this should allow you to greatly increase quality on your stream (note that replacing this DLL won't actually improve quality by itself, it will allow you to set higher quality without running into single thread CPU limits).

Credits
The x264 encoder was taken from LoRd_MuldeR's libx264 for AVIDemux replacements (link). I have re-hosted it on TL to ensure a safe download.

[pXAero]

Was thinking about downloading Xsplit and doing some streaming this week. Thanks HDPhoenix for making me check that my internet is too crap to do it before I even started lol :]