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I have Compaq Presario CQ56-172SR Laptop and Camera Trust Trino HD 18679(720p)

When i stream video to one site (for example twitchtv) will best quality everything is normal.

But when i stream to two sites i get my processor to 100% and its start lagging/freezing.

i use Splitcam and Manycams for the camera virtualization. use latest flash player and google chrome. OS - Win XP x64

So i wanted to ask is there any Camera virtualization software which uses less processing power or is there different solution/tricks when streming to two sites. i thought about increasing virtual memory? will this help? Any suggestions?

Hennes
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Encoding video is a very CPU intensive process (not memory intensive, so changing memory will not help). Your computer is running relatively slow processor (2.0Ghz Celeron), so its not surprising that it can only handle one stream at a time, especially if you're using HD video.

To fix the problem you could look into external hardware to encode your video, or into a more powerful computer. Another option would be to decrease the quality of the video (maybe drop down to just 480p instead of 720p).

Update:

After thinking about your problem for a sec, what you really want to do is have a single application encode the video, and then stream the encoded video to two different streaming services. This should be possible if your machine is able to stream to one without problems. I'm not familiar with how streaming websites accept streaming data, so I can't help you with implementing it, but something like VLC which can output to multiple sources might do the trick.

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