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  1. I want to capture some streams of some old 4x3 content. I guess it is 640x480. I do not want to blow it up to full screen. I would like to capture just the browsers playback window using OBS Studios region capture. I want to use Firefox or I could use the MS browser. I have noticed before, that when you change bit rate or resolution, the browsers window does not change size. How do I size the browsers playback window to match the incoming stream size?
    Also, is there any way to detect what FPS the video is streaming at?

    Sorry: Wrong forum - I thought I was in the downloading forum
    Last edited by ChasVideo; 25th Jul 2019 at 06:06.
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    You do not.

    A browser's window is just that - a window. It can be resized but it does not affect what is inside it.

    To do what you want you select Region (or whatever it is called - I am not familiar with that program) and move the crop bars to the edges of the playback then that is all you will capture.
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  3. Maybe you can just download the stream instead of screen capture. Try youtube-dl.
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    This is quite easy if you have a dual monitor setup, but probably works with a single, too. Set OBS to capture a 640x480 space on the other monitor. Then carefully position the browser window to exactly fill that space with the video.

    I'd also recommend capturing at 29.97 or 30fps at a very high bit rate using the "slowest" encoder speed that your system will tolerate without dropping frames. Then re-encode the recording with high quality to reduce the size while also decimating frames if needed.
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  5. Originally Posted by SaurusX View Post
    This is quite easy if you have a dual monitor setup, but probably works with a single, too. Set OBS to capture a 640x480 space on the other monitor. Then carefully position the browser window to exactly fill that space with the video.

    I'd also recommend capturing at 29.97 or 30fps at a very high bit rate using the "slowest" encoder speed that your system will tolerate without dropping frames. Then re-encode the recording with high quality to reduce the size while also decimating frames if needed.
    I don't think the OP's problem is matching the capture frame size to the browser's video widow size, it's matching the browser video window size to the incoming video frame size to get 1:1 mapping of the incoming video to the window:

    Originally Posted by ChasVideo View Post
    How do I size the browsers playback window to match the incoming stream size?
    It's very common for those not to match because the person authoring the page is concerned about the page layout, not perfectly matching the video frame to the window. For example at:

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/07/weve-got-our-first-peek-at-s4-of-the-expanse-an...e-december-13/

    The video's window size is 800x449 but the video playing in it is 854x480.

    In some cases you can change the browser's overall window size because the video windows scales with the browser. But in many cases the page doesn't scale with the browser. In cases like that you can sometimes edit the page source while in the browser. Or save the page locally, edit it, then, play it from there. But that can be quite complicated and may not work. It's better and easier to download the video directly from the source.

    Of course, with this particular video the source is at youtube.com:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNIim3xqsEU

    You can just download the video directly from there with youtube-dl. You can use

    Code:
    >youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNIim3xqsEU
    to get list of available streams:

    Code:
    [youtube] kNIim3xqsEU: Downloading webpage
    [youtube] kNIim3xqsEU: Downloading video info webpage
    [info] Available formats for kNIim3xqsEU:
    format code  extension  resolution note
    249          webm       audio only DASH audio   52k , opus @ 50k, 377.23KiB
    250          webm       audio only DASH audio   68k , opus @ 70k, 495.87KiB
    171          webm       audio only DASH audio  127k , vorbis@128k, 897.44KiB
    140          m4a        audio only DASH audio  130k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k, 1.01MiB
    251          webm       audio only DASH audio  133k , opus @160k, 977.46KiB
    278          webm       256x144    144p   95k , webm container, vp9, 24fps, video only, 621.80KiB
    160          mp4        256x144    144p  108k , avc1.4d400c, 24fps, video only, 645.12KiB
    242          webm       426x240    240p  195k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.02MiB
    133          mp4        426x240    240p  245k , avc1.4d4015, 24fps, video only, 1.40MiB
    243          webm       640x360    360p  356k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.58MiB
    134          mp4        640x360    360p  500k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 2.58MiB
    244          webm       854x480    480p  623k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 2.54MiB
    135          mp4        854x480    480p 1052k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 4.92MiB
    247          webm       1280x720   720p 1199k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 4.45MiB
    136          mp4        1280x720   720p 1981k , avc1.4d401f, 24fps, video only, 9.14MiB
    248          webm       1920x1080  1080p 2078k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 7.35MiB
    137          mp4        1920x1080  1080p 3755k , avc1.640028, 24fps, video only, 16.83MiB
    18           mp4        640x360    medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k, 3.46MiB
    43           webm       640x360    medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k, 5.39MiB
    22           mp4        1280x720   hd720 , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (best)
    Then download the one(s) you want:

    Code:
    >youtube-dl -f 135+140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNIim3xqsEU
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  6. First: Sorry for posting in the wrong forum. I thought I was in Video Streaming Downloading. Thanks for the replies.

    I cannot use a YouTube down loader, they do not work on this site. I have had very good luck with Video DownloadHelper. I have used it for years. But this site knows how to block it. Anything better than VDH?
    I like jagabos idea. I never thought about moving the browser to align with the OBS window. Then I will know if the browsers window size is correct. I do not see a way to resize the window that opens up to stream the video. If I need to, I will have to try playing with the page source as suggested. Beyond that I will not attempt. I have to find the post that explains how to set a region with OBS Studio.
    Another idea I have is to set my desktop at 2x of 640x480 = 1280x960, since I can't go below 800x600 on my system. That will limit the scaling to a straight 2x which should not be too bad. I want to edit these videos so I will let the editor resize to 1080P and set all the options to best quality.

    I have tried but I do not see a way to set up OBS Studio to have a 640x480 window.
    Last edited by ChasVideo; 25th Jul 2019 at 07:22.
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  7. Originally Posted by ChasVideo View Post
    I have tried but I do not see a way to set up OBS Studio to have a 640x480 window.
    Add the crop/pad filter. Turn off "Relative". Set the X, Y, Width, Height values.
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