Question / Help Audio Bitrate capped at 160.

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AntonKnee

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Hi I use obs for recording and recently I found out that you can change your audio bitrate and that it improves the quality of the audio. Anyways when I tried to adjust it the highest option is 320. I have looked on youtube and the forum and not found any solutions.
 

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koala

koala

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Go to Settings->Output->Streaming and uncheck "Enforce streaming service encoder settings". Audio track 0 is fixed to 160 if this is enabled, since track 0 is the default streaming track.
 
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cedarrapidsboy

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Thank you for posting this. It solved my problem. Audio bitrate was capped at 160 Kbps even though I had it configured for 5.1 output and 480 Kbps on the Audio page and Output->Audio tab, respectively.

Is this a known bug (I cannot find it in the tracker)? It seems like a bug since this affects local recordings while the option is on the streaming interface. The surround sound guidance does not mention it, though it does mention increasing the bitrate.
 
koala

koala

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It's no bug, it's the consequence of the duality of streaming and recording. OBS doesn't know if you intend to stream only or record only or both. So it has to prepare for both.One track goes out for streaming, so OBS has to prepare this track within the constraints of the streaming service. If you record this track as well for recording, you inherit these constraints.

You can always choose the track that is affected by streaming (in the output->streaming tab), it does not need to be track 1. And you can always choose the tracks that are written to your recordings (in the output->recording tab), does not need to include the track chosen for streaming.
 
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cedarrapidsboy

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koala said:
It's no bug, it's the consequence of the duality of streaming and recording. OBS doesn't know if you intend to stream only or record only or both. So it has to prepare for both.One track goes out for streaming, so OBS has to prepare this track within the constraints of the streaming service. If you record this track as well for recording, you inherit these constraints.

You can always choose the track that is affected by streaming (in the output->streaming tab), it does not need to be track 1. And you can always choose the tracks that are written to your recordings (in the output->recording tab), does not need to include the track chosen for streaming.
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Thanks for that context. I of course never considered the use case of simultaneously streaming and local recording. This helps!
 
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immigration expert

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i have the same problem, but i don't seem to understand the answers provided in the forum. go setting , then streaming and do what? ucheck enforce. my obs doesnot say that. please help
 
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immigration expert

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cedarrapidsboy said:
Thank you for posting this. It solved my problem. Audio bitrate was capped at 160 Kbps even though I had it configured for 5.1 output and 480 Kbps on the Audio page and Output->Audio tab, respectively.

Is this a known bug (I cannot find it in the tracker)? It seems like a bug since this affects local recordings while the option is on the streaming interface. The surround sound guidance does not mention it, though it does mention increasing the bitrate.
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can you help me so my problem as well. when i tried to increase it 320 it say it will be set to 160 because it is the limit set. i don't see the reason. please help
 
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