Help with Casting!

Hey i recently got a pretty good comptuer and decided id like to give casating a shot. I figured this was a pretty good place to look for some help.

I downloaded xsplit and can get a cast up with meh quality and some weird sound feedback. could somebody who knows what theyre doing watch my cast and tell me things i could do to make it better?

Please and thank you

justin.tv/ohno21212

Also how do i cast full screen games? is there a way?

You can't cast fullscreen games. You have to cast windowed games. Some games have a windowed no-border which is fantastic; but most games will not and you'll have to capture either the whole window with the border, or just capture the game part of the screen.

is there any special way to launch games in windowed mode? do some games not allow me to cast in windowed mode?

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Go into the settings and say run in window.

Currently you can't cast full screen using Xsplit. If you want full screen you need to go with another setup such as Adobe Flash Media Encoder + a camera of your choice. As far as cameras go I'd suggest SCFH or VHScrCap. Doing it this way is a bit more complicated so you'll have to google some guides and be ready for lots of trial and error if you want to go that route.

We would need some details about your computer and internet connection to help fine tune, but based on this http://www.justin.tv/ohno21212/b/286181353 it looks good.
Let us know your Operating System, memory, processor, Video Card, and upload speed. Use speedtest.net for upload speed.

As for audio, I have struggled with it a long time, and I still have trouble sometimes, but maybe I can help. What kind of audio setup do you have?

Operating system: Windows 7 64 Bit
Memory: 1 Terrabyte 900 Gigs left
Processor: AMD pehnom II Quad-Core processor (3.0 GHZ)
8GB Ram
AMD Radeon HD 5450 Graphics card

speedtest.net results: http://www.speedtest.net/result/1306151731.png

as for the audio thing, what do you need me to share?

If you have dual screens you might be able to cast full screen games but it's a shot in the dark. It's pretty random for when it works for me.

what casting setup do you use anyway tom?

For audio I mean are you using a headset with a mic or is the mic separate? Is it a USB headset/mic? Or is it a 3.5mm, 1/4 or 1/8 connection like this

Its a head set with a mic and it looks like its a 1/4 connection

more help please?

the video quality seems fine its just the sound has that weird humming and I cant seem to find any info on it

To run a game in windowed mode, you may need to do a few hacks/work arounds. I know I had to do them for GTA4 and stuff like some Steam games. For most Steam games that do not allow Windowed mode, you can go into the properties of that game and "Set Launch Options" and be able to add in "-windowed" in there and sometimes that helps.

ok thanks! now i just need to work on the soudn issue hehe

To fix the audio issue open Xsplit and go to the Broadcast > Edit (The channel your using to cast). And try to set your audio encoding settings to

Format: 44.100 KHz 16 bit stereo
Bitrate: 320000
Codec: MP3

Sorry I took forever to respond. My memory can be terrible when it comes to forums ><; Did increasing the audio bitrate fix the issue?

If not there are only a few other problems it can be. There are a couple issues with the 1/4, 1/8, 3.5mm type connectors. The signal sent to the computer is an analog signal, so the humming you hear could be electrical interference caused by something like bad/dirty contacts, battery/voltage issues in your system, or a poor sound card.

A computer only understands digital signals while the audio to/from a headset is an analog signal. With this connection your sound card does the converting from analog to digital and back, that means the signal is easily distorted before actually getting to the sound card.

A 100% USB(not the converter type) headset may fix the issue for you. This is because the headset does the conversion from analog/digital within itself, so the signal that goes to/from the computer is already a clean digital signal.

I don't mean USB is better than the traditional connections, but most of the time it is entirely based on the individual person's computer which type is better.

tl;dr buy a 100% USB (not a converter type) headset and try it out, if no improvement, you can just return it!

Hey i changed the bit rates. Also i dont think the headset will help because i tried unplugging the headset and casting and i still got the sound.

I come back and tell you guys how it turned out

Sucess! now the only backround noise is the bit of white noise humming frmo my mic (most likely the air conditioner... should i turn down my mic sensitivity to fix this, or just turn down the volume of my mic?

Yeah putting silence on didnt seem to help, any ideas on getting rid of the backround noise. Its very managable though if i cant get rid of it