**Testing the AMD Live Streaming Software**

I recently had the opportunity to test the AMD live streaming software, which is designed to allow users to broadcast their gameplay and interact with their audience in real-time. I was excited to see how it would perform, especially since there has been a lot of interest from gamers and streamers looking for an alternative to traditional live streaming platforms.

I started by setting up my stream on the live streaming tab, where I could configure the software to work at ultra quality with 8 megabits per second. This is a relatively high bitrate, but I wanted to see how it would perform in comparison to other encoders. As I went to stream over to a test Twitch account, I noticed that there was a significant amount of input latency, which made the game run smoothly but also affected my live stream's performance. I had to turn down the graphics settings on my game to get the stream running at all.

Despite the performance issues, I was pleased with some of the features that AMD has built into their software. It has a built-in OBS interface, which allows users to easily configure and customize their streams. The software also supports overlays, such as the chat and gift windows, which can be useful for interacting with viewers during live broadcasts.

However, there were also some issues that I encountered during my testing. For example, all of the overlays seemed to record into the footage, even when they shouldn't have. This meant that I had to manually turn off the recording features for each overlay, as they would otherwise be saved as part of the final video. Additionally, I noticed that the software was not always reliable in terms of hooking up my games and ensuring a stable connection.

**The Potential Benefits and Drawbacks of AMD Live Streaming Software**

One of the major benefits of AMD's live streaming software is its potential to improve the overall experience for gamers and streamers. With features like built-in OBS support and customizable overlays, it has the potential to make it easier for users to create high-quality streams and interact with their audiences in real-time.

However, there are also some drawbacks to using this software. As I mentioned earlier, the performance issues that I encountered during my testing were a major concern. The high bitrate required to achieve ultra quality may not be suitable for all systems, and the input latency can make it difficult to play games smoothly while streaming live.

Another issue that I noticed was that the software is not always reliable in terms of hooking up my games and ensuring a stable connection. This means that users may experience issues with their streams dropping out or experiencing lag during gameplay. Additionally, the software's reliance on overlays can make it more difficult to customize the stream and add personal touches.

**The Future of AMD Live Streaming Software**

Despite the performance issues and drawbacks, I believe that AMD's live streaming software has a lot of potential for improvement. By addressing these issues and adding more features and functionality, the software could become a major player in the live streaming market.

In particular, I would love to see improvements made to the overlays and recording features, as well as more work done on reducing input latency and improving overall performance. Additionally, it would be great to see more customization options added to the software, allowing users to tailor their streams to fit their individual needs and preferences.

Overall, I think that AMD's live streaming software is a great option for gamers and streamers who are looking for an alternative to traditional platforms. With some improvements and tweaks, I believe it could become a major competitor in the market.

**Conclusion**

I want to thank you all for watching my video on the AMD live streaming software. If you're interested in learning more about this topic or have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments below. Don't forget to like and subscribe if you enjoyed the video, and hit the link to check out my other coverage of the AMD launch.

In conclusion, I believe that AMD's live streaming software has a lot of potential for improvement, but with some tweaks and fixes, it could become a major player in the market.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I know I know I've made a lot of videos about the new AMD Navi GPUs and part of that is essentially over compensation for not having been able to make pretty much any videos about AMD GPUs at all for the past ten years and not having had access to them and since I had limited access to these Navi GPUs for the time being I wanted to you know squeeze as much as I could out of it so hopefully that makes sense but today I wanted to do a little bit of a deep dive in on AMD real life which is AMD's screen recording game capture and live streaming software built into or you know that comes with their graphics cards that allows you to use their built-in video encoders for both h.264 and HEV C which is interesting because they're paying for a license for thee for that HEV C capability or negotiating the Patton with the Patton people somehow and show what the setup process is what the features are and talk a little bit about my performance concerns without trying to harp too much on it cuz I've already talked about it quite a bit but first let's pay some bills the mud mic Wireless can boldly go where no mic has gone before this microphone can attach to any headphones requires no additional wires features very low latency a dual capsule microphone 12 hour battery life and LED indicators on the receiver so you know when you're muted and or when the battery is running low and you can basically run your entire house without ever losing a signal what more could you ask for learn more by clicking the link in the video description so I will say to start out that if you're going to set up AMD re-live you ideally need to run the Express installer whenever you install your graphics card drivers I kept doing the custom installer and I'd even tell it to install real live during that process and it just wouldn't install it and then installing it made it not work and I did some research to NASA round apparently this is just a known issue and always has mental as well as are most of the bugs that I have encountered with this software and nothing has been done about it so hopefully with their renewed interest in fixing all of this stuff which again I'm trying not to harp on too much hopefully this gets cleaned up but you will have the best experience using the Express installer in the graphics card driver having that installed AMD re-live and in my most recent driver install I did that and realized still wasn't installed but installing it did make it work once installed you can go to the AMD driver control panel here the Radeon software and go ahead and click on the real-life two tab and click enable real I've once you turn on real live you have all sorts of different options you can change here including save location for where you actually save your recordings to I recommend especially if you're doing the higher bitrate using a faster hard drive or a solid-state drive that way you can you know make sure nothing is impacting your recording speed you can turn on whether you wanted to record your desktop or just games that it hooks some games like were split gate arena warfare require you to enable desktop recording anyway because it can't hook the game there's a lot of weirdness with the game hooking and then you have options for your hotkeys for turning on the recording toolbar you're recording hotkeys your instant replay hotkeys you can save instant gifts with the high keys which they're trolling with that shortcut because that it's ctrl shift J as if they're calling it jiff I see I see that troll and then something for in-game replays which I honestly haven't tried to do some looking and I haven't figured out what that is but you've got hot keys for everything toggling your camera toggling your microphone taking a screenshot toggling specific region recording you can use this as an all-encompassing game and screen recorder if you get it set up when working well enough and that's pretty cool then you can choose which microphone input or line in and put it captures whether or not it records your microphone and then once you enable your microphone you're given options for volume levels boost things like that I just had a basic gaming headset plugged into the green and pink input jacks on the motherboard and I only had to control the volume slider or not use any microphone boost or anything like that there is some options for dean vr streaming i didn't mess with that because there's a lot to do with that that like that could be its own video so i just skipped that tab pretty much and then you have life's streaming and recording tabs now if you are recording I recommend cranking that bitrate all the way up to 100 megabit per second it's great that they give you the option to crank it up and i also recommend using the HEV c encoding type instead of AVC because this is actually a lot better quality and a lot better performing on these graphics cards on pretty much any AMD graphics card and will give you the best result and you always want to start out with highest quality possible-- and compress later for youtube so crank up the bitrate don't try to use anything super a little bit right because their encoders don't hold up super well for that but for live streaming it will be using the AVC encoder anyway because that is required unfortunately also in the recording tab you have an option of choosing resolution either like a down scaled resolution from your screen resolution so all the way down to like 360p or to just hook whatever your game is running at which usually works the best unless you forget to relaunch your game after changing game resolution you can change your recording frame rates your audio bitrate again crank that up to 320 kilobit per second and whether or not you want your microphone is recorded to a separate audio track which will just save out a dot m for a audio file separately with your video files so you can edit it and sync it up later it doesn't do multiple audio tracks in the same file so you could could run into some sync issues at certain points but for the most part it should be fine and it's great that they give you this option and make it really easy to access and then you can choose audio channels for me it's automatic or stereo but theoretically if you had a virtual surround sound or a surround sound set up it would actually let you record that which is kind of cool let me have the ability to toggle instant replay which is a feature of elgato capture cards and nvidia shadowplay that's actually part of the shadow recording possibility this software has it too you get to choose how long either in duration or size because it gives you both of that information you want your replay to be i usually leave it around five minutes and then what the actual buffer records to be that disk storage which is going to be slower to form final file and more prone to some issues of the recording just not saving which is something I run into sometimes or it can buffer to ram which is what OBS instant replay actually does and this is a lot faster and snappier but keep in mind that estimated replay size is always going to be writing to your system ram and so you need that system ram always available or you're gonna run into some issues so choose that wisely especially on systems with low ram and then you have the ability to turn on an instant gift creator which I can't I think it bases the frame it seems to always be like 10 or 15 frames per second so that's not always great but you do get quality settings high medium low of course even on the medium setting the you know duration of it you can change that here as well the 15-second duration even at medium quality is a big enough file in most cases to be too big to embed in something like discord but you can tweak that to your desire so you can use instant replay to record like a full game session or a killing spree that you had and then instant gif to record the last 5 or 10 seconds for just a quick funny moment to embed in a website or something up to you and then the in-game replays I believe this needs to be supported by specific games for example over on the Nvidia side player unknowns battlegrounds plug pub Jeep club G pub G supports shadow play g-force instant replays and so it's probably a similar feature to that where there's a select set of custom supported games and you have to run with that I just keep it off because I couldn't figure it out and it was another hotkey that could cause problems here now I really like that all of these menus are available and customizable and easy to access and easy to go through in terms of like comparing to Nvidia shadowplay these this menu system at least in this view is significantly more impressive and more useful than what Nvidia provides for their shadow play software for the GeForce experience having it in this style of menu and not just the overlay is way more convenient for me and way more easy to tweak little details for a power user like me however they do have a little overlay toolbar that's supposed to appear or like shadow plays overlay however virtually never can I get it to actually appear overtop of a game which is the point because it's not only used for real live it's also used for wot man and the other graphics card control software to tweak it while you're game and I can't get it to draw overtop of a game at all I have to go back to the desktop to use it so at that point it's pretty much pointless but the main Radeon Settings window is really awesome for this next to the recording tab you do have a scene tab which is allowing you to set up something basically like OBS where you can customize where things are located what things are shown at your webcam unfortunately I plugged in a Logitech c920 and the result I got from it is really high-quality like you're looking at it now the result from it is really nice but you have no control over the aspect ratio or resolution it gives you a little controller to like adjust the crop and the size of the webcam but it stays in the default resolution of the camera which is typically with these webcams 640 by 360 or something which again looks really great in this instance and I am actually pretty blown away with how this looks although it defaults to an 80 percent opacity turn that back up that's weird but it doesn't give you customization and I tried to install the Logitech collage recapture software as a workaround cuz that basically broadcasts the camera as a virtual camera with its own settings applied but the Radeon setting software still only picked up the camera itself not the virtual camera so I can't really figure out a workaround for this at the moment you can customize whether there's browser sources your live stream chat from your live stream source you can supposedly add images and gifts I tried adding a couple gifts and they did not show up on the screen or the recording so don't know what's happening there and you can add quite a bit and I had a really good time messing with this and using it until I actually went to live stream over on the live streaming tab set it up for ultra quality at 8 megabits per second since their encoder is not super great as I've shown in previous videos hint-hint and streamed it over to a test twitch account and oh boy that was not a pleasant experience I was testing with battalion 1944 and suddenly there was a ton of input latency and the game was running like crap and the stream was running like crap I turned the game on to the lowest settings and the stream performance picked up a little bit quality was still terrible for an 8 megabit per second stream at certain points but the potential is there like there's some really cool stuff all built in like it has basically OBS built in but it is basically OBS using all of these overlays and drawing overtop the screen and things like that that is a significant amount of GPU load what your game will also compete with and you'll have a lot of issues with performance going back and forth here another issue is that while it is a good point for a lot of people who have asked me for how to get your twitch at over top of your game plate when you're live streaming with OBS and things like that because they only have one monitor for one monitor people that kind of thing is really cool but it also means that there's a frame buffer drawn over top of your game which will always increase input latency so that's a concern as well performance when you're just doing gameplay for live streaming should be fine but just gameplay live streams are pretty boring so pick your poison one major complaint that I have and sometimes this is an issue although usually only with desktop capture with shadow play as well is that all of the overlays record into the footage the now recording overlay the saved instant replay overlay the stopping recording overlay the little hey on capturing your game and here's how long I've been recording timer hotkey I had to turn all of those off because they kept recording in the actual gameplay recording which it's not supposed to do and I'm pretty sure like it's actually not supposed to do that and something's broken but again this is one of those things driving diving through forums and reddit post this has been an issue for years and no one's fixed it no one's even I don't think looked at the software for quite some time and so I am making these videos to kind of just get the attention out there because it seems like no one's talking about it I've I've always had people asking me like hey can you make some tutorials on using AMD stuff for streaming because no one else is and every time I try to dig into it everyone's like no it's not worth it just use x264 and I'm just like why is this acceptable and now that I'm diving in further I'm also asking why is this acceptable so I'm really hoping actually direct diving attention to it instead of just ignoring it which is what we've all done for a few years now will help get this stuff fixed because there is a lot of potential here and I can see myself wanting to use this as an option for streaming and recording games and just for recording gameplay it's really good other than the overlays being recorded and other than the inconsistency of it actually hooking your games and you never know if it's actually working because the two Larr doesn't pop up you know there's some issues there and certain hotkeys for this saving recording I tried to change it to match my my shadow play hotkeys and then it stopped working so there's some hiccups but there's a lot of potential hearing quite a lot of settings you can dive into to really tweak your live-streaming your recording with the software so I'm putting this out there as a guide on how to use it so that way you can fine tune it if you balance your game performance and your stream settings and things like that to really get the most out of it and hope that they find a way to fix it up because there is quite a lot of potential here but it's got some performance problems thanks so much for watching and hit the like button if you enjoyed if you're curious about what I have to say about the encoder as of early july 2019 and all of my other coverage of the AMD launch go check out the links in the video description and on your screen and yada yada yada hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more tech education I'm Eva Sox here to make tech easier and more fun I'll see you next timeso I know I know I've made a lot of videos about the new AMD Navi GPUs and part of that is essentially over compensation for not having been able to make pretty much any videos about AMD GPUs at all for the past ten years and not having had access to them and since I had limited access to these Navi GPUs for the time being I wanted to you know squeeze as much as I could out of it so hopefully that makes sense but today I wanted to do a little bit of a deep dive in on AMD real life which is AMD's screen recording game capture and live streaming software built into or you know that comes with their graphics cards that allows you to use their built-in video encoders for both h.264 and HEV C which is interesting because they're paying for a license for thee for that HEV C capability or negotiating the Patton with the Patton people somehow and show what the setup process is what the features are and talk a little bit about my performance concerns without trying to harp too much on it cuz I've already talked about it quite a bit but first let's pay some bills the mud mic Wireless can boldly go where no mic has gone before this microphone can attach to any headphones requires no additional wires features very low latency a dual capsule microphone 12 hour battery life and LED indicators on the receiver so you know when you're muted and or when the battery is running low and you can basically run your entire house without ever losing a signal what more could you ask for learn more by clicking the link in the video description so I will say to start out that if you're going to set up AMD re-live you ideally need to run the Express installer whenever you install your graphics card drivers I kept doing the custom installer and I'd even tell it to install real live during that process and it just wouldn't install it and then installing it made it not work and I did some research to NASA round apparently this is just a known issue and always has mental as well as are most of the bugs that I have encountered with this software and nothing has been done about it so hopefully with their renewed interest in fixing all of this stuff which again I'm trying not to harp on too much hopefully this gets cleaned up but you will have the best experience using the Express installer in the graphics card driver having that installed AMD re-live and in my most recent driver install I did that and realized still wasn't installed but installing it did make it work once installed you can go to the AMD driver control panel here the Radeon software and go ahead and click on the real-life two tab and click enable real I've once you turn on real live you have all sorts of different options you can change here including save location for where you actually save your recordings to I recommend especially if you're doing the higher bitrate using a faster hard drive or a solid-state drive that way you can you know make sure nothing is impacting your recording speed you can turn on whether you wanted to record your desktop or just games that it hooks some games like were split gate arena warfare require you to enable desktop recording anyway because it can't hook the game there's a lot of weirdness with the game hooking and then you have options for your hotkeys for turning on the recording toolbar you're recording hotkeys your instant replay hotkeys you can save instant gifts with the high keys which they're trolling with that shortcut because that it's ctrl shift J as if they're calling it jiff I see I see that troll and then something for in-game replays which I honestly haven't tried to do some looking and I haven't figured out what that is but you've got hot keys for everything toggling your camera toggling your microphone taking a screenshot toggling specific region recording you can use this as an all-encompassing game and screen recorder if you get it set up when working well enough and that's pretty cool then you can choose which microphone input or line in and put it captures whether or not it records your microphone and then once you enable your microphone you're given options for volume levels boost things like that I just had a basic gaming headset plugged into the green and pink input jacks on the motherboard and I only had to control the volume slider or not use any microphone boost or anything like that there is some options for dean vr streaming i didn't mess with that because there's a lot to do with that that like that could be its own video so i just skipped that tab pretty much and then you have life's streaming and recording tabs now if you are recording I recommend cranking that bitrate all the way up to 100 megabit per second it's great that they give you the option to crank it up and i also recommend using the HEV c encoding type instead of AVC because this is actually a lot better quality and a lot better performing on these graphics cards on pretty much any AMD graphics card and will give you the best result and you always want to start out with highest quality possible-- and compress later for youtube so crank up the bitrate don't try to use anything super a little bit right because their encoders don't hold up super well for that but for live streaming it will be using the AVC encoder anyway because that is required unfortunately also in the recording tab you have an option of choosing resolution either like a down scaled resolution from your screen resolution so all the way down to like 360p or to just hook whatever your game is running at which usually works the best unless you forget to relaunch your game after changing game resolution you can change your recording frame rates your audio bitrate again crank that up to 320 kilobit per second and whether or not you want your microphone is recorded to a separate audio track which will just save out a dot m for a audio file separately with your video files so you can edit it and sync it up later it doesn't do multiple audio tracks in the same file so you could could run into some sync issues at certain points but for the most part it should be fine and it's great that they give you this option and make it really easy to access and then you can choose audio channels for me it's automatic or stereo but theoretically if you had a virtual surround sound or a surround sound set up it would actually let you record that which is kind of cool let me have the ability to toggle instant replay which is a feature of elgato capture cards and nvidia shadowplay that's actually part of the shadow recording possibility this software has it too you get to choose how long either in duration or size because it gives you both of that information you want your replay to be i usually leave it around five minutes and then what the actual buffer records to be that disk storage which is going to be slower to form final file and more prone to some issues of the recording just not saving which is something I run into sometimes or it can buffer to ram which is what OBS instant replay actually does and this is a lot faster and snappier but keep in mind that estimated replay size is always going to be writing to your system ram and so you need that system ram always available or you're gonna run into some issues so choose that wisely especially on systems with low ram and then you have the ability to turn on an instant gift creator which I can't I think it bases the frame it seems to always be like 10 or 15 frames per second so that's not always great but you do get quality settings high medium low of course even on the medium setting the you know duration of it you can change that here as well the 15-second duration even at medium quality is a big enough file in most cases to be too big to embed in something like discord but you can tweak that to your desire so you can use instant replay to record like a full game session or a killing spree that you had and then instant gif to record the last 5 or 10 seconds for just a quick funny moment to embed in a website or something up to you and then the in-game replays I believe this needs to be supported by specific games for example over on the Nvidia side player unknowns battlegrounds plug pub Jeep club G pub G supports shadow play g-force instant replays and so it's probably a similar feature to that where there's a select set of custom supported games and you have to run with that I just keep it off because I couldn't figure it out and it was another hotkey that could cause problems here now I really like that all of these menus are available and customizable and easy to access and easy to go through in terms of like comparing to Nvidia shadowplay these this menu system at least in this view is significantly more impressive and more useful than what Nvidia provides for their shadow play software for the GeForce experience having it in this style of menu and not just the overlay is way more convenient for me and way more easy to tweak little details for a power user like me however they do have a little overlay toolbar that's supposed to appear or like shadow plays overlay however virtually never can I get it to actually appear overtop of a game which is the point because it's not only used for real live it's also used for wot man and the other graphics card control software to tweak it while you're game and I can't get it to draw overtop of a game at all I have to go back to the desktop to use it so at that point it's pretty much pointless but the main Radeon Settings window is really awesome for this next to the recording tab you do have a scene tab which is allowing you to set up something basically like OBS where you can customize where things are located what things are shown at your webcam unfortunately I plugged in a Logitech c920 and the result I got from it is really high-quality like you're looking at it now the result from it is really nice but you have no control over the aspect ratio or resolution it gives you a little controller to like adjust the crop and the size of the webcam but it stays in the default resolution of the camera which is typically with these webcams 640 by 360 or something which again looks really great in this instance and I am actually pretty blown away with how this looks although it defaults to an 80 percent opacity turn that back up that's weird but it doesn't give you customization and I tried to install the Logitech collage recapture software as a workaround cuz that basically broadcasts the camera as a virtual camera with its own settings applied but the Radeon setting software still only picked up the camera itself not the virtual camera so I can't really figure out a workaround for this at the moment you can customize whether there's browser sources your live stream chat from your live stream source you can supposedly add images and gifts I tried adding a couple gifts and they did not show up on the screen or the recording so don't know what's happening there and you can add quite a bit and I had a really good time messing with this and using it until I actually went to live stream over on the live streaming tab set it up for ultra quality at 8 megabits per second since their encoder is not super great as I've shown in previous videos hint-hint and streamed it over to a test twitch account and oh boy that was not a pleasant experience I was testing with battalion 1944 and suddenly there was a ton of input latency and the game was running like crap and the stream was running like crap I turned the game on to the lowest settings and the stream performance picked up a little bit quality was still terrible for an 8 megabit per second stream at certain points but the potential is there like there's some really cool stuff all built in like it has basically OBS built in but it is basically OBS using all of these overlays and drawing overtop the screen and things like that that is a significant amount of GPU load what your game will also compete with and you'll have a lot of issues with performance going back and forth here another issue is that while it is a good point for a lot of people who have asked me for how to get your twitch at over top of your game plate when you're live streaming with OBS and things like that because they only have one monitor for one monitor people that kind of thing is really cool but it also means that there's a frame buffer drawn over top of your game which will always increase input latency so that's a concern as well performance when you're just doing gameplay for live streaming should be fine but just gameplay live streams are pretty boring so pick your poison one major complaint that I have and sometimes this is an issue although usually only with desktop capture with shadow play as well is that all of the overlays record into the footage the now recording overlay the saved instant replay overlay the stopping recording overlay the little hey on capturing your game and here's how long I've been recording timer hotkey I had to turn all of those off because they kept recording in the actual gameplay recording which it's not supposed to do and I'm pretty sure like it's actually not supposed to do that and something's broken but again this is one of those things driving diving through forums and reddit post this has been an issue for years and no one's fixed it no one's even I don't think looked at the software for quite some time and so I am making these videos to kind of just get the attention out there because it seems like no one's talking about it I've I've always had people asking me like hey can you make some tutorials on using AMD stuff for streaming because no one else is and every time I try to dig into it everyone's like no it's not worth it just use x264 and I'm just like why is this acceptable and now that I'm diving in further I'm also asking why is this acceptable so I'm really hoping actually direct diving attention to it instead of just ignoring it which is what we've all done for a few years now will help get this stuff fixed because there is a lot of potential here and I can see myself wanting to use this as an option for streaming and recording games and just for recording gameplay it's really good other than the overlays being recorded and other than the inconsistency of it actually hooking your games and you never know if it's actually working because the two Larr doesn't pop up you know there's some issues there and certain hotkeys for this saving recording I tried to change it to match my my shadow play hotkeys and then it stopped working so there's some hiccups but there's a lot of potential hearing quite a lot of settings you can dive into to really tweak your live-streaming your recording with the software so I'm putting this out there as a guide on how to use it so that way you can fine tune it if you balance your game performance and your stream settings and things like that to really get the most out of it and hope that they find a way to fix it up because there is quite a lot of potential here but it's got some performance problems thanks so much for watching and hit the like button if you enjoyed if you're curious about what I have to say about the encoder as of early july 2019 and all of my other coverage of the AMD launch go check out the links in the video description and on your screen and yada yada yada hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more tech education I'm Eva Sox here to make tech easier and more fun I'll see you next time\n"