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Subject: Nvidia ShadowPlay
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newt182 24.05.13 - 06:09pm
Not content to let consoles have all the fun, NVIDIA has announced ShadowPlay, an upcoming game capture utility for their freely available GeForce Experience software.ShadowPlay, planned for Summer 2013, constantly works in the background utilizing the H.264 encoder built into every Kepler GPU from NVIDIA to auto-record your last 20 minutes of gameplay. But wait, I hear you saying. FRAPS has recorded my game footage for years. While thats true, the recording process comes with a noticeable hit * +
newt182 24.05.13 - 06:10pm
to performance, something NVIDIA tells me isnt a concern with ShadowPlay. Moreover, FRAPS creates impossibly large video files. Set to comparative quality settings (30fps at 1080p), a 1 minute and 9 second clip of Borderlands 2 results in a 3.6GB file with FRAPS. Using ShadowPlay to record the same length of gameplay yields a file size of 238MB. To break it down even further, ShadowPlays high quality setting a 30Mbps video bitrate and 48Hz 16-bit audio produces a 675MB video without * +
newt182 24.05.13 - 06:10pm
audio, and 708MB with audio. Its a manageable file size, already encoded and ready for sharing. Like GeForce Experience itself, NVIDIA is trying to remove the technology and just let PC gamers play. First and most importantly, there are no hard limits for recording. If you want to record a marathon Conquest match in Battlefield 3, have at it. * +
newt182 24.05.13 - 06:10pm
Next I asked about video sharing: There wont be automatic sharing buttons in the initial release, but this is something were thinking about for version 2, Daniel said. In the meantime, GeForce customers can manually share the video files over whatever medium they choose (Facebook FB -0.43, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) During a recent hands-on demo for NVIDIA SHIELD, I noticed that Twitch.tv came pre-installed. My brain instantly started fantasizing about what ShadowPlay could bring to the table * +
newt182 24.05.13 - 06:10pm
for e-sports, specifically broadcasting and commentary. Daniel said that in the first release only default game audio can be recorded. As for Twitch, what about the option to stream your live gameplay? Not in the first release. This is a great idea for version 2 though! * +
newt182 24.05.13 - 06:10pm
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/05/23/nvidias-shadowplay-brings-effortless-gameplay-recording-to-the-pc-masses/ * +
spartan2 24.05.13 - 06:27pm
PC wins * +
norega 24.05.13 - 07:12pm
I read about this ages ago . Good to see it finally happen . * +
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