Setup

Important

All of the programs are needed to make LPRT fully function!

Setup

Installing LPRT

Pretty simple just unpack the .zip or .7z file into a folder of your choice.

First Startup

Open lprt.exe

Connecting LPRT to OBS

1. Installation

   • Download & Install OBS like you do it with any other program. Get it from the OBS Website or use the Steam version

   • OBS Version 30 or greater recommended.

2. Set your OBS Settings

   • Go to Settings
   • Go to Output & set the Output Mode to Advanced
   • The Encoder Settings
   • The Recording Settings
   • The Audio Settings

3. Enable the OBS Webserver

   • Open OBS
   • Click on the tools dropdown
   • Click on Websocket Server-Settings
   • Activate Websocket Server
   • Activate authentification!
   • Generate a new password
   • Click on show Connection information
   • Update the OBS Settings in LPRT
   • You can change the settings manually by copy the ip, port & password into {ROOT}/obs_settings.json.

     {
         "ip": "{your ip}",
         "port": "{your port}",
         "pw": "{your password}",
         "timeout": 1
     }

4. First Recording

   • Open LPRT & OBS
   • Go to the recording page
   • 
   • Select a lets play(Nothings shows up? No problem.)
   • 
   • Press the connect button
   • 
   • Start Recording in OBS
   • You see your recording time & LPRT will create data for further automation.

OBS Audio Settings

setting	value
Track 1 - Audio Bitrate	192
Track 1 - Name	Mic
Track 2 - Audio Bitrate	192
Track 2 - Name	Desktop
Track 3 - Audio Bitrate	64
Track 3 - Name	Sync

Note

You need at least 2 Tracks for LPRT Automation otherwise some features might not work as expected! Track 1 must be the MIC sound & Track 2 must be the DESKTOP sound!

OBS Recording Options

The are my settings for recording. Feel free to choose your own, if it works!

setting	value
Recording Path	In my case it is C:/Users/{username}/Videos
Generate File Name without Space	False
Recording Format	MPEG-4 (.mp4)
Video Encoder	In my case it is NVIDIA NVENC H.264. You will record via CPU? Then select x264
Audio Encoder	FFmpeg AAC
Audio Track	At minimum 1 & 2. If you want to have a sync track, select: 1, 2 & 3
Rescale Output	Disabled
Custom Muxer Settings	Empty
Automatic File Splitting	False

Note

In case of BSOD's use MKV as Recording Format! You need to remux the Videos manually, only MP4(H264) is supported by LPRT!

Note

Only AAC/AC3(AC3 is audacity export only) is supported as audio format!

OBS Encoding Options

The are my settings for recording. Feel free to choose your own, if it works!

setting	value
Rate Control	CBR
Bitrate	10000kbps
Keyframe Interval	0s
Preset	P5:Slow
Tuning	High Quality
Multipass Mode	Two Passes(Quarter Resolution)
Profile	high
Look ahead	True
Pycho Visual Tuning	True
GPU	the id of your gpu, normally 0
B-Frames	2

Connecting to Audacity

1. Installation - Audacity itself
   • Download & Install Audacity like you do it with any other program. (You need to remember the audacity filepath!)
   • Get the 3.0.0 Audacity version from here

   • Currently only Audacity 3.0.0 is supported.

     Other versions might not work as expected!

2. First startup
   • On the first startup you need to enable the modpipe.
   • 
   • Go to Edit > Settings
   • 
   • Go to Module & enable mod-script-pipe
   • Restart Audacity for the next step
3. Installation - FFMPEG for Audacity
   • Download the 2.2.2 version from here

   • Currently only FFMPEG-Audacity 2.2.2 is supported.

   • Go to Edit > Settings
   • 
   • Goto Libraries > search
   • 
   • A filedialog open up.
   • Select the avformat-55.dll normally located in C:\Program Files\FFmpeg For Audacity\. (Only if Audacity does this not automatically)
   • Restart Audacity

FFMPEG Installation

FFMPEG downloads & install automatically

Warning

The files are from a third-party website!

Libpng Installation

Libpng16-16.dll unpacks automatically on app start!