Question / Help An encoder error occurred while streaming

[ZenWithBen]

Hi there! I was hoping to maybe get some help. My issue started yesterday and out of nowhere every time i switch a scene while streaming it would end my stream, and then it would say stopping recording even though I was not recording, it would give me an error notice that said "an encoder error occurred while streaming" and then obs would freeze up and I would have to close it out using task manger. I never had any problems with OBS until now. This came out of nowhere.

https://obsproject.com/logs/HFbqTPTCHlGNnWu0

 

[R1CH]

Install the CoreAudio encoder, which handles this situation better.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-enable-coreaudio-aac-encoder-windows.220/

 

[ZenWithBen]

Install the CoreAudio encoder, which handles this situation better.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-enable-coreaudio-aac-encoder-windows.220/

Well first off thank you so much! That absolutely worked and I appreciate your help. Second, why did that work? Why did that happen when everything has been working fine? I guess I don't understand why I needed to download that encoder to fix something that was working fine and all of a sudden broke for what reason.

 

[R1CH]

The default encoder was failing because somehow an invalid audio sample was given to it:

12:27:00 PM.019: error:   Input contains (near) NaN/+-Inf
12:27:00 PM.019: [FFmpeg aac encoder: 'Track1'] avcodec_encode_audio2 failed: Invalid argument

The CoreAudio codec seems to handle this case without erroring out the whole encoder. We're not sure yet what causes the NaN issue.

 

[LTGonline]

The default encoder was failing because somehow an invalid audio sample was given to it:

12:27:00 PM.019: error:   Input contains (near) NaN/+-Inf
12:27:00 PM.019: [FFmpeg aac encoder: 'Track1'] avcodec_encode_audio2 failed: Invalid argument

The CoreAudio codec seems to handle this case without erroring out the whole encoder. We're not sure yet what causes the NaN issue.

Hey R1CH, I am running into the same issue mostly when I play assassins creed origins and lego DC supervillains. Same encoder error message. I followed the above and it reflected in my logs but unfortunately, the errors keep coming.

 

[LTGonline]

Hey R1CH, I am running into the same issue mostly when I play assassins creed origins and lego DC supervillains. Same encoder error message. I followed the above and it reflected in my logs but unfortunately, the errors keep coming.

Nevermind, problem solved.

 

[FrettyJay]

Hi there! I was hoping to maybe get some help. My issue started yesterday and out of nowhere every time i switch a scene while streaming it would end my stream, and then it would say stopping recording even though I was not recording, it would give me an error notice that said "an encoder error occurred while streaming" and then obs would freeze up and I would have to close it out using task manger. I never had any problems with OBS until now. This came out of nowhere.

https://obsproject.com/logs/HFbqTPTCHlGNnWu0

Hey I was having the same issue with my laptop but my laptop keeps saying that my charger keeps plugging and unplugging itself, are you having that issue as well?