Recording Rides PC

General Discussion
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I want to record my rides and maybe upload them to youtube.

PC: high resolution (ultra resolution made not much difference) / Ryzen 5 2600x / RX 6700 XT / Windows 10 / 2 Monitors (main 2560x1440; 2nd 1920x1080). zwift runs windowed on main. recording with OBS.

Basicly I want to have a “clean” video output file.

After serveral tries I am not happy with the output and somebody might point me in the right direction.
OBS:
outputmode advanced - recording - format mkv - encoder x264 - rate control CBR - bitrate 8000 (9000 is not much better)
Video: Base 2560x1440 - Output 1920x1080 - Downscale bicubic 16 samples - common fps values 60 - auto remux to mp4
the w/kg on the right side (riders nearby overview) is sometimes pixeled.
mp4 output file is about 350MB for 5 minutes.

Any settings suggestions?
Is there a better way to record full rides (30-60 minutes) on zwift?

thanks

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What video card do you have?

I use OBS Studio. The hardware encoding improves performance, Zwift doesn’t make heavy use of the video card so anything that will do hardware encoding will help.

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OBS seems to work for me on similar settings

I have outmode still set to simple and a Video bitrate of 6000 you might want to try Lanczos downscale to see if it makes a difference. Does OBS while recording show any frames missed or skipped?

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Gpu: 6700xt

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frames are perfect. Only the video quality is lackluster. On a 6000 bitrate, the w/kg numbers on the nearby riders list are not clear enough. I will try the Lanczos downscale.

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somehow that made a huge difference.
the numbers are extremly sharp now.
thanks.
output was 68MB for 90 sec.@6000

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Great to hear.