> [!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](https://obsproject.com/de) or use the [Steam version](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1905180/OBS_Studio/)
   - > 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](#obs-encoding-options)
   * [The Recording Settings](#obs-recording-options)
   * [The Audio Settings](#obs-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`.
        ```json
        {
            "ip": "{your ip}",
            "port": "{your port}",
            "pw": "{your password}",
            "timeout": 1
        }
        ```
4. First Recording
    - Open LPRT & OBS
    - Go to the recording page
    - ![like-this](img/connect%20to%20obs.PNG)
    - Select a lets play(Nothings shows up? No problem.)
    - ![like-this](img/select_lp.PNG)
    - Press the connect button
    - ![like-this](img/obs%20connected.PNG)
    - 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](https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-old.html)
   -    > 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.
    - !["like-this"](img/audacity%20to%20settings.PNG)
    - Go to Edit > Settings
    - !["like-this"](img/audacity%20settings%20to%20modules.PNG)
    - 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](https://lame.buanzo.org/)
    -    > Currently only FFMPEG-Audacity 2.2.2 is supported.
    - Go to Edit > Settings
    - !["like-this"](img/audacity%20to%20settings.PNG)
    - Goto Libraries > search
    - !["like-this"](img/audacity%20ffmpeg.PNG)
    - 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!