Advice about handling timers for console runs?
7 years ago
New South Wales, Australia

Complete newbie to this sort of thing and I'm just curious as to what would be the best way to handle Livesplit with OBS and an external capture card to get the footage from a console while maintaining proper split timing and frame rate?

Specifically as I would like to run a few PS2 titles (or PS2 titles via PSN classics on a PS3) that have the Real-Time Attack rule accompanying an emulator ban, but I'm not sure as to how to go about this properly as I haven't used Livesplit before.

If anyone could give me any advice on this, I'd really appreciate the input, thank you very much!

Vienna, Austria

I don't get the question. Just throw them together in OBS and split on what you see on your side.

New South Wales, Australia

I've seen a few posts elsewhere about there being problems with recording from some consoles with frame rates being off in things (to make up for the difference between the speed of the console and what it's being recorded at) so that's what I was wondering on trying to avoid that when recording and/or streaming - as I haven't used something like Livesplit before so I just wanted to make sure I had everything down before I start setting stuff up so I can try and avoid any problems.

(Edit: Sorry, I'm really tired so I'm probably not making any sense at the moment).

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Antarctica

Oh I get what you're asking.

You're asking what to do if your capture card has some delay (like some HD cap cards do) and you want to know how to make it so that when you split in Livesplit it doesn't look like you're splitting a second or two early, right?

I don't use Livesplit (Wsplit for life) but there should be a setting somewhere in there that mentions "split delay" or something like that. What you can do is record a test video of you splitting at certain points and see what the delay is between when you split and when the cap card catches up to it. If it's like 1.5 seconds, set that "split delay" or w/e the setting is called to 1.5. Then, Livesplit will delay the split by that much time. So if you split at say 27m25s it won't actually split until 27m26.5s.

Hopefully that's what you're looking for (and hopefully someone who uses Livesplit can comment on the actual setting you're looking for)

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