[Tips]Using the x264vfw External Codec  

[Tips]Using the x264vfw External Codec

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Ocam supports external codec (VFW) and how to use the x264 codec.

The x264 codec can be downloaded from the following site.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/

Go to the site and click the download button.


The download starts automatically.


The installation screen is as follows only.


Agree to the terms.

 
Specify the installation path.

 
The installation is complete.

 
Click Done.

 
After installing the codec, you must re-run Ocam to see it in the external codec list.

After re-launching Ocam, click the codec button in the ocam main window and click the external codec menu.

 



Check the box to Use an external codec.

 


Select x264vfw-H264 / MPEG-4 AVC codec from the list.

 

Click on the Settings button to see the detailed settings in the codec.

 
The codec setting window will appear as shown below. Currently, we need to record the screen in real time rather than the normal video encoding, so select Ultrafast in Preset, check the Zero Latency checkbox and set the encoding to be the fastest, and press the OK button.

(This setting method is useful for real time recording and you can set it according to the situation.)

 
If you record like this, the recording is done using x264 codec.

* For game recording, if the game you want to record is 64-bit, you must also install the 64-bit version of x264vfw (by default, unless you touch the option during x264vfw installation), x264vfw-Configure x264vfw64 from the Start menu. Run it and set it up as described above.

* Keep / Accept only YUV 4: 2: 0, Keep / Accept only YUV 4: 2: 2, Keep / Accept only YUV 4: 4: 4 are not supported for x264vfw setting and recording will fail when using this setting.


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  2. [HOWTO]Record your screen
  3. [HOWTO]Record only sound
  4. [HOWTO]Capture screen
  5. [HOWTO]Resizing the recording area
  6. [HOWTO]Setting codec-selecting video codec
  7. [HOWTO]Setting Codec-Selecting Video External Codec (VFW)
  8. [HOWTO]Setting codec-Setting audio quality of audio codec
  9. [HOWTO]Record microphone and system sounds
  10. [HOWTO]Game recording
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  13. [HOWTO]Setting up oCam - Record - Resize
  14. [HOWTO]Setting up oCam - Sound
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  32. [Tips]How to improve the recording quality and sound quality of oCam
  33. [Tips]How to make recorded video recoverable even if app is forcibly terminated during recording
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[Tips]How to improve the recording quality and sound quality of oCam

To record losslessly, refer to the link below.

http://cafe.naver.com/ohsoft/619

How to improve recording quality

oCam is basically

I am using the MPEG-4 video codec.

The MPEG-4 codec, which is basically a codec, shows a moderate quality due to the codec characteristics, but it is suitable for recording on low and medium-sized computers, and has a good software compatibility (playable in some video players) without using a hardware encoder. It is set by default.

If you have an NVIDIA graphics card (GTX Desktop 600 or higher or GTX 650M or higher for a laptop) or have high CPU performance, you can use NVENC H.264 encoder or Open H.264 encoder to record video quality. There is.

Click the Codec button in the Ocam main window as shown below and select Nvidia NVENC H.264 (if your graphics card does not support it, it will fail with an error if you start recording.) Or Open H.264 codec to record. Do it.

 

For the Open H.264 codec, the best video quality is obtained when the Recording-Normal-Quality is set to Very High in the following settings. (For NVIDIA NVENC H.264 codec, the following settings are not affected. You can change the settings in Codec-Hardware Encoder Settings in the Ocam main window.)

 
* In case of Open H.264 codec, the picture quality is good when the quality is set to very high, but it consumes a lot of CPU, so it may drop a lot of frames when recording a game, so we recommend using MPEG-4 codec if performance is not supported. .

* Since Nvidia NVENC codec is a hardware encoder, there is almost no frame drop than any built-in codec of OCAM for game recording, and it has the best recording performance, so it is best to use NVENC codec if the graphics card supports it.

* Using Nvidia NVENC codec, some games use a lot of GPU memory, but it also uses a lot of GPU memory for encoding, so recording may fail if there is not enough GPU memory.

* In the picture above, MP4 container is used. It can be used in MKV, M4A, MOV, and AVI containers.

 

 

How to improve sound quality

oCam is basically

I am using AAC audio codec (192 kbps).

To change the sample code or bit rate of an audio codec, click the Codec button in Ocam's main window, then click Set Audio Codec.

 
Then the following window will appear.

 
As shown in the figure above, the supported audio codecs support AAC, MP3, MP2, WMA, and Flac.

I personally recommend using the most widely used and compatible AAC codec.

You can improve the sound quality by changing the bit rate or sample rate.

For AAC codec, the supported bitrate is up to 512kbps and the sample rate is up to 96000khz.

You can use Flac codec to record losslessly, but recording file size can be large.

To change the audio codec you want to record, click the codec button of Ocam and select the container you want (for example, if you use mkv). Then select the codec with the audio codec you want in the container.


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