When comparing Mishira vs ShadowPlay, the Slant community recommends ShadowPlay for most people. In the question“What are the best software tools for live streaming?” ShadowPlay is ranked 5th while Mishira is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose ShadowPlay is:
If you want to record 1080p 60fps, this will get you there. If you were having performance issues using CPU encoding before, Shadowplay will most likely work 10x better that you swear that it doesn't appear to be recording at all.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free and open source
Mishira is licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub.
Pro Good audio mixer
Pro Lightweight resource usage
Pro Simultaneous broadcast and record
Mishira allows streaming to multiple services at the same time alongside recording to different files each with separate settings.
Pro GPU accelerated encoding
If you want to record 1080p 60fps, this will get you there. If you were having performance issues using CPU encoding before, Shadowplay will most likely work 10x better that you swear that it doesn't appear to be recording at all.
Pro Allow recording video after the fact
ShadowPlay can set up a recording buffer and only save to a local file if needed.
Cons
Con No longer being developed
Last update was in 2014,
Con In Alpha
Con Doesn't work on Windows XP
Con Windows only
Con Nvidia cards only
Only works with Nvidia cards, so those with AMD cards will not be able to use this app.