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Helmic:
XSplit?  You guys are being silly.  Don't waste money on that bloated piece of shit, get Open Broadcaster Software.  It runs MUCH faster (0-5 FPS drop) if you don't have a dedicated video capture card or a separate computer to do your streaming for you, has many of the same features and a similar (but less cluttered) layout, it's open source, and best of all it's completely free.

http://obsproject.com/

Should be pretty self-explanatory if you've ever used XSplit, though there's tutorials out there if you're completely new to streaming.  Finding a good bitrate for your actual upload is a bit of a chore but the defaults work for most people at 720p.

It's actually a little funny because there was a big uproar in the XSplit forums when OBS came out and basically kicked XSplit's ass, you could see the devs trying their best to bullshit you about the side-by-side comparisonss.  Lots of doublespeak trying to con you into believing that you're just imagining the framerate difference or that you've set up XSplit wrong somehow or that framerate doesn't mattter.

Since you're wanting to upload to Youtube rather than stream live though, I recommend setting OBS to record locally.  It's still WAY faster than Fraps at the moment and there's no watermarks.

Qwerty Kun:
Fair points but at this moment I still believe that xsplit has the edge. I have tried both and while I do strongly recommend OBS as a free alternative I still believe that Xsplit, at this point, has some advanced functionality that OBS lacks.

Various screen capture and skype integration functions are lacking, advanced plugins for on screen drawing (as just one example) is also not there. ATM my money is still with Xsplit for live streaming however I will agree with you on sunderlands needs.

Sunderland I actually now recommend OBS if you only want to record locally. (also has a really good and small filesize in comparison to Fraps)

N-Sunderland:
Thanks for your replies, guys. I think I'll check OBS out first. If that doesn't work for me, I'll see about XSplit. And thanks for the offer, Qwerty, that's really generous.

Captain Phil:
I may have to check this out myself too. Would be nice to get some game footage to show my friends and try to get them in on the action.

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