Are there any real alternatives to AmaRec on 64-bit? Mainly cause 32-bit OBS sometimes lags for me and I don't want my run to lag out while streaming and having it not be accepted. I know about just using the Cap Cards straight source but it looks really bad just by itself, Thanks!

Edit: Also a way to use AmaRecTV in OBS 64-Bit would be cool. (and I've done a window capture of it, but it doesn't really work for me)

Also not to be rude or anything, but I would prefer if it didn't have a watermark, or could like use seperate codecs to avoid them, kinda like using LAGS on AmaRecTV, Thanks once again!

There's a lot here that I don't understand, so let's start at the basic - the best replacement for Amarec is just capturing straight into OBS (Amarec really is obsolete nowadays). You say that capturing straight into OBS "looks really bad", can you elaborate on that? I can't imagine why capturing straight into OBS would degrade your capture so much while Amarec would keep it looking great.

I don't really know how to describe it, but it just looks really bad to me and I prefer having my streams to be the highest they can be. I think it's mainly the deinterlacing algorithm if I had to guess, but honestly I don't know

Edit: I just re-checked and to me it kinda looks like if the game had motion blur

My best guess there is that it sounds like some resources on your PC are getting maxed out and that’s what causing the capture to look like that at high quality. Do you know if your CPU or anything like that is getting maxed out?

If your PC’s resources are getting maxed out, it’s going to be hard to record on high quality reliably no matter what you do (having a decent PC is kinda required for high quality video recordings). That’s probably why you see what looks like motion blur or get lag spikes on amarec. I bet if you recorded or had the video output resolution set to something like 480p then you would probably not see those same issues (if it did then idk what it could be aside from a weird cap card compatibility or something).

For what it’s worth I once played around with a program called vMix to record the video of a run and piped that into OBS but in all honesty, it never worked great. It would occasionally crash for me and the quality was better and more reliable if I just went straight into OBS with the video source.

I just figured out why it was being weird. AmaRec switched to some random codec, and switching it back to LAGS fixed it, but thanks for the help anyway