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Someone Casted My Game?

Remember that one game I had with RevFaYDe? Well, someone on YouTube casted that game! :D Check it out!

YouTube or TwitchTV?

Okay, so I'm choosing between my YouTube or TwitchTV to show my ladder games here. Right now, I uploaded a 22-minutes long ZvP game on YouTube, and it takes about an hour to do it. In addition, I had to use Windows Movie Maker to change the video file to .wmv format so that the file size is about 200 MB before uploading it to YouTube; this took about 20 minutes or so. This is taking way too long. So from now on, I'm going to use TwitchTV videos to show my ladder games since they come out a lot faster.

Here's the game that I was talking about earlier:



I won't spoil you too much here. But let's say it's one of those long ZvP macro game where you see a lot of stalkers, colossi, roaches, hydralisks, some infestors, corruptors, broodlords, spine crawlers, and mothership. :)

I finally bought Dxtory!

Hurray! I finally got myself a full version of Dxtory! :D I really love this software after testing its trial version for hours since a few days ago; I can use it for both recording videos and for streaming. It's so more useful than Fraps. I guess getting Dxtory for myself is like my Christmas / New Year present for me. :) I plan to stream and record my ladder games more and upload them to YouTube in the coming days! :D

Here's some eye candy for you:

Last Streaming Test for the Night

Well, I'm done for tonight tweaking settings on XSplit and Dxtory. Here's my final result, probably the best quality so far:


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Good night.

Comparing XSplit Scenes with and without Dxtory Video Output

I tested streaming SC2 using XSplit scenes with and without Dxtory Video Output, and I have to say that the difference in quality is very minimal, but it is noticeable in full-screen; I think I can see some blurred pixels in normal XSplit scene. Here's my TwitchTV video comparing the two scenes:


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Basically what I did was I periodically switched XSplit scenes while I was playing SC2 by myself. And I think the main difference between the two scenes is the color saturation. I think the normal XSplit scene has more yellow-green color saturation; I'm not really sure. And for both of these scenes, I haven't noticed much difference in lag while I was playing SC2. It's odd but interesting. But there's lag in the streaming video output though.

Testing Dxtory Trial Version with XSplit

So, I'm spending most of my time nowadays trying to find the best stream quality using Dxtory Trial Version and XSplit Broadcaster. The best result I've had so far is the following video from my TwitchTV channel:


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Neat, isn't it? :D Basically all I did was to leave my resolution in Dxtory as my desktop resolution (1280x720) with 30 FPS, and change XSplit resolution to something small but 16:9 ratio (640x360). I think I'm gonna keep testing to reduce even less lag! :)