Hey, I've been trying to get into livstreaming since December 2013 after I bought a Hauppauge HD PVR (Component version, not 2). After learning more about the device I bought component cables for my 360 and just reused ones I had for my PS2 for my PS3. After getting all the proper cables and everything I looked for software, I came across XSplit from a Twitch page advertising it. And that's what I'm using now, but all the paywalls are annoying so I'm trying to find other software, that are good, to stream with. I checked out OBS, but they've been saying they'll add support for the Hauppage HD PVR as far back as 2012 iirc, so I don't think it'll actually happen anymore. So, I can't find any other software to stream with and XSplit is slowly getting more annoying to use. Anybody use anything else/better?
More nuisances are the random, sporadic issues I have with the thing. Sometimes, the PVR will stop sending signal to the TV and PC when I plug it into the computer, otherwise it send signal just fine. Sometimes it decides not to send audio to the TV or the PC (forcing me to just play music in the background, as I can send audio, but again this only happens when I plug it into the PC. It's so confusing because I've gotten good audio in the past, I've messed with the XSplit settings for PVR to fix and still no luck. Even weirder is that googling shows that no one else has stepped forward with these same problems, so it's only me :/. But, I am using a Sony Vaio laptop, (with an i5 processor, 8GBs of RAM, but a measly Intel HD Graphics 3000 integrated graphics) and not some monster desktop PC. Another cause maybe that I'm using a generic printer cable, as the USB cord as I got everything but a USB cable from the box, but I don't think it should make that big of a difference as the original cable would be the same, no?
For the most part it works fine when it wants to cooperate and I get an alright stream, you can see an example from this Friday (aside from my awful Halo skillz, give me a break!) here (skip ahead, it takes a bit to get into an actual match), complete with my no audio issues. I don't have the best internet, so I'm very happy with the quality as it is now (I broadcast with a bitrate of 1100). Lots of settings don't make much sense to me, I've done limited research on things when I've gone through the settings, for example I figured out that deinterlacing (specifically Optimized) fixes the lines that run through the image when movement/motion is happening, a problem I was having at the start of December. This stuff is probably basic knowledge for most people, but coming into all these things is pretty confusing and disorienting for me. All my settings are in a (30 second long lol) gif here, I get a weird error when I try to "read" from my PVR.
Another thing is that this red light is always on, when streaming. It's always off if I'm just using the PVR for passthrough.
More nuisances are the random, sporadic issues I have with the thing. Sometimes, the PVR will stop sending signal to the TV and PC when I plug it into the computer, otherwise it send signal just fine. Sometimes it decides not to send audio to the TV or the PC (forcing me to just play music in the background, as I can send audio, but again this only happens when I plug it into the PC. It's so confusing because I've gotten good audio in the past, I've messed with the XSplit settings for PVR to fix and still no luck. Even weirder is that googling shows that no one else has stepped forward with these same problems, so it's only me :/. But, I am using a Sony Vaio laptop, (with an i5 processor, 8GBs of RAM, but a measly Intel HD Graphics 3000 integrated graphics) and not some monster desktop PC. Another cause maybe that I'm using a generic printer cable, as the USB cord as I got everything but a USB cable from the box, but I don't think it should make that big of a difference as the original cable would be the same, no?
For the most part it works fine when it wants to cooperate and I get an alright stream, you can see an example from this Friday (aside from my awful Halo skillz, give me a break!) here (skip ahead, it takes a bit to get into an actual match), complete with my no audio issues. I don't have the best internet, so I'm very happy with the quality as it is now (I broadcast with a bitrate of 1100). Lots of settings don't make much sense to me, I've done limited research on things when I've gone through the settings, for example I figured out that deinterlacing (specifically Optimized) fixes the lines that run through the image when movement/motion is happening, a problem I was having at the start of December. This stuff is probably basic knowledge for most people, but coming into all these things is pretty confusing and disorienting for me. All my settings are in a (30 second long lol) gif here, I get a weird error when I try to "read" from my PVR.
Another thing is that this red light is always on, when streaming. It's always off if I'm just using the PVR for passthrough.
Any recommendations for streaming better would be appreciated, most guides I've found have been pretty dated and only cover really old builds of XSplit which are completely different and paywall-less. I'd be happy to answer any questions people have about the problems, and if anyone else has streaming questions you might as well ask here, I suppose.