Recording with VLC

[Dominic Night]

To make things short, I have VLC player and read up online that its capable of streaming/recording. Streaming is something I don't really care for however have abit of a desire to record some things.

I did managed to record some video for testing, however several problems came up.
1. The video itself was more or less lagging terribly to the movement of the video was unwatchable
2. There was no audio.

Is there anything else I need for this recording to work properly?


I can't really spend money on things like recording software so VLC is my only real thing too use.

[IceHism]

Originally Posted by Dominic Night

To make things short, I have VLC player and read up online that its capable of streaming/recording. Streaming is something I don't really care for however have abit of a desire to record some things.

I did managed to record some video for testing, however several problems came up.
1. The video itself was more or less lagging terribly to the movement of the video was unwatchable
2. There was no audio.

Is there anything else I need for this recording to work properly?


I can't really spend money on things like recording software so VLC is my only real thing too use.

If you're going to stream or record, i recommend to use something like OBS (https://obsproject.com/) instead of using VLC which doesn't sound good at all.

OBS is free and is widely used especially to stream to online sites like ustream, twitch, and etc.

When i use OBS, i get audio on my streams and recordings. You can play with the audio settings too. The only thing you'll need to stream is a good internet and a good processor (I7 preferred). Since you're not streaming, you'll just need a good processor preferably with 4 cores with hyperthreading.

[Dominic Night]

Oh

The slight problem with that is, I have a pre-built computer (i5 is the only thing I'm certain know I have.) that may not have any of those things that seems required OBS, atleast what you suggested.

[cyth]

You can record pretty well with an i5 depending on what kind of resolution you want the output video to be. OBS is good because it received some optimizations from Intel directly. VLC isn't bad but just doesn't have that advantage. Under OBS Settings, go to Broadcast Settings and select File Output Only. Then under Video you set your resolution. Try out different resolutions what works. Something will.

[IceHism]

Originally Posted by Dominic Night

Oh

The slight problem with that is, I have a pre-built computer (i5 is the only thing I'm certain know I have.) that may not have any of those things that seems required OBS, atleast what you suggested.

Most desktop I5s have 4 cores. I don't know which model # or generation you have but it can't be too bad. I can't guarantee that you will make 720-1080p videos but if you aren't recording anything too intensive like games or video editing, then you should be perfectly fine.

[Dominic Night]

Originally Posted by IceHism

Most desktop I5s have 4 cores. I don't know which model # or generation you have but it can't be too bad. I can't guarantee that you will make 720-1080p videos but if you aren't recording anything too intensive like games or video editing, then you should be perfectly fine.

Not sure if this is of help.
Dell - Inspiron 660 (Win7 - 64-bit)

[IceHism]

Originally Posted by Dominic Night

Not sure if this is of help.
Dell - Inspiron 660 (Win7 - 64-bit)

Yea, that works perfectly fine