Hey everyone,
I generally peek at this group when things are going really well or really bad. They used to go well.
My buddies and I have been doing this weekly sports podcast for five years now. It's evolved from a "Halftime" Hangout when Hangouts first went to live streaming capabilities. The hangout became a podcast where I got a ton of help by peeking in on discussions began by people like Terry Leigh Britton about how to use Hangouts and Voicemeeter.
I had found OBS in that process, but when I found Restream, OBS really became a valuable tool to our show. We started to really diversify our content and blasting it out on Periscope, Facebook, and Youtube. We had a solid show that brought in guests and was on Youtube and iTunes before this, but Restream and OBS made it especially exciting. I felt like I was getting good a making the stuff work finally.
Over the past month, things have gone bad--so back I'm here. I've been talking with Terry and he has had some issues as well with Youtube and OBS. We've both been getting "Bad Stream" description from Youtube.
There are all types of factors involved in this. There have been updates to both OBS and Windows 10 in the past few months. My ISP has been inconsistent. Adding more variables, I had a successful 45 min stream last night using OBS to Youtube without problem.
Tonight, we had our weekly podcast and we ran into problems 10 minutes into our stream. The only additional factor into the settings was that I was running a Google Hangout as I was streaming.
After 10 min, my FPS starting jumping all around. I ended up closing the stream down and setting up a new live event in Youtube using the Quick encoder option. I went old-school Live Google Hangout. I didn't have any lag according to our viewers.
I'm at a loss. Too many variables to decipher what is the culprit. I hadn't question OBS until this point, but I didnt' have problems in the past. I skipped two updates intentionally. Problems are post recent update, but that may really be corollary.
Anyway just wanted to share the experience.
OBS Settings:
Output Stream Simple Mode
2500 bitrate/30fps
1280x720 output
CPU% in OBS never peeked above 15%
#frustrated
Your "bitrate" may be set too low I set mine at least 3500 to 4000 however I am not a pro at this. It has helped because I was dropping frames and causing a lot of lagging. Windows updates has killed me a couple of times, The "anniversary updates" last fall killed my Logictec 920c Camera and I had to go to the webroot to reset two files before reinstalling the camera (Google it)
ReplyDeleteThis time I am still working on it
ReplyDeleteHave you tried going back to the previous version of OBS that you were using before the problems? Would be interesting to see if that made a difference.
ReplyDeleteI have tried higher bitrate without success. It makes sense though because my hardware can handle it. I'm going g to revert to old OBS and give that a shot.
ReplyDeleteIt started with me using OBS Classic, so I'm not so confident that is going to help. Hangouts are 720p, so the additional stream load on your ISP may have induced some throttling - but I know you have killer specs (at least you are paying for killer specs! A few years ago, that didn't matter that I was paying for high quality service - a Printed Circuit Board at the main local hub was spitting spurious static into the system - took them three months to track down. With YouTube's much larger number of equipment items - and I DO suspect this is a YouTube issue - it must be hell to track down!) Anyway - luck of the draw lately - I start my stream 40 minutes early and it seems to stabilize a half hour or so in.
ReplyDeleteJust a thought - you do not by any chance have a computer in the house running Electric Sheep as a screen saver, do you? Once I turned that computer off, the signal went stable. May be just a coincidence... but worth checking.
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