Video tutorial

An easy guide to recording, encoding and ripping videos.

VIDEOMAKING

1. Download OBS. https://obsproject.com/

2. Go to Settings > Output > Recording > Advanced

3. Copy settings. https://ibb.co/80TpRHt Change Preset: Quality to Max Quality if your hardware allows it. Experiment further if wanted.

4. Add Scene and Source: Screen Capture. Use Alt+drag to crop the game window. It's better if you have a second monitor. Which you really should.

5. You can tweak your sound settings to don't get distracted/horny/go insane. I just do it the old fashioned way: mute my headphones.

ENCODING

6. Download ffmpeg: https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ (Get the full version so it has libx265 to encode at H.265).

7. Extract, rename app to "ffmpeg" and move to a safe location. The easiest to locate is on desktop. Mine's on a folder called "Applications".

8. Open "cmd". Type: "cd Desktop/Applications/ffmpeg/bin" (without quotations). This should move you to the executable folder.

7. Now to encode to H.265 type: "ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vcodec libx265 output.mkv" (input.mkv and output.mkv need to be referenced. If you have it on desktop it should be "C://Users/YOUR USERNAME/Desktop/input.mkv").

8. You can add extra commands to the encoding procedure like -crf, -presets, -filters, etc... All the info about what they do can be found here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.265

9. My settings are: "ffmpeg -i C://Users/YOUR USERNAME/Desktop/in.mkv -vcodec libx265 -crf 18 -filter:v "unsharp=lx=3:ly=3" -preset fast C://Users/YOUR USERNAME/Desktop/out.mkv".

10. Be careful with the unsharp masking as it can lead to some bad encodings if abused. Tinker yourself. Look for signs of quality like hair, lightning or smooth movement. I remove -filter:v "unsharp=lx=3:ly=3" with static scenes so they don't break. Try it yourself.

VIDEO RIPPING

11. If you've learned about using ffmpeg then congratulations you've also learned about ripping videos too. Download youtube-dl: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

12. Same deal and command: "cd Desktop/Applications/YOUTUBE-DL FOLDER NAME"

13. To rip videos type: "youtube-dl url". Done. You can use it on youtube, PH, XV and many other websites. The only exceptions are yt membership (need --cookies) and private/deleted videos. Also in some non-recognized websites the videos can be extracted indirectly through this trick (it still worked last time I checked). There's much more to this but for the purpose of getting scenes it's enough.

- Go to the network tab in your browser (in chrome, ctrl + shift + i then click on network)
- Find "index.m3u8" (or just type m3u8 in the field). It's the source video file. Refresh the website if it doesn't appear immediately.
- Use youtube-dl on the link that shows up.