Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Hey everyone

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

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Win10 April Update - Must Change Camera and Microphone Privacy

Win10 April Update - Must Change Camera and Microphone Privacy
I did not do a show today because I didn't know OBS would need this.

With the new update, if you have EVER turned off access to the microphone and/or camera by ANY app in Privacy Settings, you will find after the update that access is turned off entirely to both by all apps.

The fix is easy - in settings search out "Camera privacy" and "Microphone privacy" and turn on the very obvious switch. However I was caught by surprise by this, and could not broadcast today's show since I could not get audio from Voicemeeter into OBS to do the stream.

This was all I needed to know! Hope it helps!

Terry

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Terry Leigh Britton hi Terry! Sorry to post this ? in this forum but couldn't figure out how to DM you on here.

Terry Leigh Britton hi Terry! Sorry to post this ? in this forum but couldn't figure out how to DM you on here.

Do you know how to fix this Win 10 Mapping a Drive/Network Credentials Glitch? I get either Windows cannot access the "Drive" or Enter Credentials which never works...........I mapped thousands of drive on Win7, yet Win10 which is SUPPOSEDLY more advanced will not work. CAn you help?

Friday, December 8, 2017

So, I am trying to setup my Behringer USB audio interface.


So, I am trying to setup my Behringer USB audio interface. I went into my audio preferences and selected what I THOUGHT is my audio board.(As you see in the picture) Well, doing a test recording, OBS crashed when I pressed stop. It would not open at all!!! I tried restarting and everything. I then realized that that setting must have been what crashed it. I turned it back to “Built-In Audio Analog Stereo” which automatically reverted to my webcam mic!

SO?! What actually is my audio board(Which works fine in Audacity BTW) and how can I get it to work in OBS?! I’m on Fedora 26 MATE Spin.

Thanks so much guys!!!

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Someone has a good starting point in setting up a steam with YouTube using OBS at Linux?

Someone has a good starting point in setting up a steam with YouTube using OBS at Linux? My kbps is very small sometimes, even with a 15mbps connection. My box is a core i7 notebook with 8GB Ram, using ArchLinux

Monday, November 6, 2017

Hey guys, having a bit of a problem.

Hey guys, having a bit of a problem. When I finish recording my audio sounds hi pitched like Alvin the chipmunk and it's very skippy. I have been using OBS for a while and never had this problem. It randomly started doing it

Thursday, May 25, 2017

OBS is on v19.

OBS is on v19.
It can't still be used as 'webcam filter' (Virtual Webcam) as ManyCam or programs like that, or is just me who can't figure how to set it up properly?
After all it can be used to stream, why not as VC?

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Hey All it has been a while, life kept getting in the way =)

Hey All it has been a while, life kept getting in the way =)

Anyway, I have an off the wall request for help. I bought a decent video cam that stated it worked with windows as a webcam. Then when it arrives and I start looking into using it as a webcam it turns out it needs to be used on Windows XP operating system to work that way. And this camera is a current active and supported device by manufacturer. (Not a legacy device)

So, I was wondering if someone knew where a generic app or program that might allow the connection with Win 10 as the manufacturer is not offering a modern solution on a modern product.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Terry Leigh Britton watched your youtube on obs and stress on cpu.

Terry Leigh Britton watched your youtube on obs and stress on cpu. very good. I am trying to stream into facebok live and periscope simultaneously. Been successful with this but pushing the envelope when I do two people from various locations using desktop (my guest and me). I am looking for ways to reduce the load on computer so reducing screen size, resolution, fps very helpful. Any other thoughts are appreciated. Also, if anybody here has time and would like to test the two-party stream into facebook and periscope, please get with me. I am very close to success but not quite there yet. Thanks.