Question / Help 16.6 wont send anything when streaming

[VorgunTheBeta]

I've recently wanted to stream again, but whenever i do, after maybe a minute or so, it stop sending data.
Hopefully the attached log might shed some light.

 

[RytoEX]

From your log in the other thread:

13:56:17.968: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Stream shutdown timeout reached (30 second(s))
13:56:17.968: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] User stopped the stream
13:56:17.968: Output 'simple_stream': stopping
13:56:17.969: Output 'simple_stream': Total encoded frames: 8626
13:56:17.969: Output 'simple_stream': Total drawn frames: 8618
13:56:17.969: Output 'simple_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 5277 (61.2%)
13:56:17.969: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 97 (1.1%)
13:56:17.969: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Freeing 10969 remaining packets
[...]
14:00:02.124: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Stream shutdown timeout reached (30 second(s))
14:00:02.124: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] User stopped the stream
14:00:02.124: Output 'simple_stream': stopping
14:00:02.124: Output 'simple_stream': Total encoded frames: 8664
14:00:02.124: Output 'simple_stream': Total drawn frames: 8663
14:00:02.124: Output 'simple_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 5664 (65.4%)
14:00:02.124: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 34 (0.4%)
14:00:02.124: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Freeing 11239 remaining packets

From this log after making the requested changes:

15:17:13.942: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] User stopped the stream
15:17:13.942: Output 'adv_stream': stopping
15:17:13.942: Output 'adv_stream': Total encoded frames: 292
15:17:13.942: Output 'adv_stream': Total drawn frames: 293
15:17:13.942: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 11 (3.8%)
[...]
15:19:40.277: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Stream shutdown timeout reached (30 second(s))
15:19:40.277: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] User stopped the stream
15:19:40.278: Output 'adv_stream': stopping
15:19:40.278: Output 'adv_stream': Total encoded frames: 8304
15:19:40.278: Output 'adv_stream': Total drawn frames: 8305
15:19:40.278: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 1318 (15.9%)
15:19:40.278: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 35 (0.4%)
15:19:40.280: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Freeing 10326 remaining packets

That's much better, though your system is still struggling to render at 60 FPS. You may need to reduce the FPS in OBS to 30 to address that issue. Just to confirm, is your GPU slotted correctly and running at full speed? You can confirm its speed with GPU-Z while you have a game running.

You do still seem to have an issue when attempting to stop the stream, but I don't see a huge number of dropped frames. You said in the other thread that the stream drops to 0kb/s. Does this happen on both x264 and NVENC? Can you get a screenshot of the kb/s indicator from OBS when this happens?

 

[VorgunTheBeta]

my GPU is inserted properly, this has happened on both, but ill gladly take pics to show it happening

 

[RytoEX]

Thanks! I'll wait for the new data. How long has this been happening? For a specific period of time, or since a specific OBS Studio update? Is there a version of OBS Studio where this does not happen?

 

[VorgunTheBeta]

http://puu.sh/splbB/2e21d8ad77.jpg using HVENC
http://puu.sh/splwe/8b98b7755c.jpg using x264
its been doing this since 0.16.5, i also tried rolling back to 0.15.4, but still did the same thing.
I've only started to stream since about 2 days ago

 

[RytoEX]

Okay, this seems markedly different from the Quick Sync streaming issue thread you came from, so we can probably rule that out, especially since you said it happens in OBS Studio 0.15.4.

Does the "Dropped Frames" count skyrocket upward when this starts happening? I mean, really fast, like 60 dropped frames per second.

 

[VorgunTheBeta]

thats when i start to drop the frames, its not like 60fps drop, but its enough in such a short time

 

[RytoEX]

If it were 60 dropped frames per second, then it would be all of your frames, but you should still be transmitting audio data, so your bitrate should stay at something above 0. This is just no data streamed at all... But if there's a connection disruption, I'd think OBS would start dropping all frames.

If someone else has seen this before, I could use a lifeline!

 

[VorgunTheBeta]

the strange thing is that it seems to still send something, because twitch is still showing stuff, but this has never happened before to me.