Kai Darkness
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Ok guys, so I've seen a few posts on the tinterweb about this but no official answer and solution so thought I'd take the time to sign up here.
So as far as I can tell with OBS running and streaming it will cause the audio and video to "lag" when the audio device becomes unsynched with the encoding video.
In the logs I find: 22:56:17: Audio timestamp for device 'Microphone (Razer Seiren)' was behind target timestamp by 1840
This not only causes the microphone to stop working for 1-2 (sometimes longer) seconds but also my own PC's audio to stop for ~1 second. While I can bear with it, sadly viewers struggle.
As is evident from above it's an expensive and good quality microphone but this doesn't appear to be microphone specific (I recreated issue on my Astro gaming headset mic and google searches provide lots of different hardware with the same issue).
Some people suggested increasing the Scene Buffering Time (milliseconds). By default it was set to 800. I increased to 1000 and viewers found that my audio then got AHEAD of my video! Rather ironic.
So, at a hardware level is it because the CPU is being slowed down in times of low stress? I've played with some of the power settings in the BIOS to no avail. I can upload full logs and system spec if required but it appears that this isn't a problem specific to me.
I hope someone can help.
Kind Regards and thank you for your advice in advance.
So as far as I can tell with OBS running and streaming it will cause the audio and video to "lag" when the audio device becomes unsynched with the encoding video.
In the logs I find: 22:56:17: Audio timestamp for device 'Microphone (Razer Seiren)' was behind target timestamp by 1840
This not only causes the microphone to stop working for 1-2 (sometimes longer) seconds but also my own PC's audio to stop for ~1 second. While I can bear with it, sadly viewers struggle.
As is evident from above it's an expensive and good quality microphone but this doesn't appear to be microphone specific (I recreated issue on my Astro gaming headset mic and google searches provide lots of different hardware with the same issue).
Some people suggested increasing the Scene Buffering Time (milliseconds). By default it was set to 800. I increased to 1000 and viewers found that my audio then got AHEAD of my video! Rather ironic.
So, at a hardware level is it because the CPU is being slowed down in times of low stress? I've played with some of the power settings in the BIOS to no avail. I can upload full logs and system spec if required but it appears that this isn't a problem specific to me.
I hope someone can help.
Kind Regards and thank you for your advice in advance.
