Question / Help Audio loops and repeats endlessly

[fobsternd]

My problem is found within the stream itself where the audio playback seems to play the audio from a particular point in time of the stream in a looping cycle that repeats endlessly. In other words, let's say the stream has elapsed 30 seconds so far from 11:00:00 to 11:00:30. What I would hear then, is probably the audio only from 11:00:00 to 11:00:10. So as the stream continues, (no problem with video playback, relatively smooth, a little bit laggy but that's the least of my concerns right now) I would only hear audio from the first 10 seconds into the stream being played back over and over again. The other issue is that each audio even playback would stack on top of each other... Think of a loop pedal for musicians to record/dub/loop music together. This issue affects audio from my webcam mic to in-game sounds. So you can imagine the horrible mess of audio!

Here are my computer specs:

CPU: AMD FX-4100 quad-core 3.60 GHz
GPU: HIS Radeon HD 6950 256mb 2GB
Ram: 8 GB

Here are my OBS settings:

I think it could be my bitrate speed? Thank you all for your support.

 

[H4ndy]

Do you have your Twitch Dashboard open and your own stream running maybe?

 

[dodgepong]

If you're watching your own stream while streaming, make sure that the stream is muted.

 

[fobsternd]

Oh yes, I am watching my own stream... am I not supposed to do that? How could I monitor if my stream then?

 

[H4ndy]

Mute it. You can monitor audio levels in OBS.
Beside that, OBS give you all information you need about your stream (image is in the preview window, connection status in the lower right corner). Watching your own stream puts a fair additional load on your PC.

If you are worried about image quality, setup aditional local recording during streaming, so you can check everything after a streaming session and make changes accordingly.

 

[fobsternd]

O man, that did the trick -_- I'm so noob. Thank you guys for the help!

Are my OBS settings optimal? I read a lot about drop frame rate thinking I was having an issue with bitrate upload speeds. I didn't know watching my stream on the same computer could be so taxing on my computer. Can someone explain this?

 

[FerretBomb]

You're using way too much bitrate. Non-partnered streams should stay at or under 2000kbps. Which is enough to run a decent 720p@30fps stream on the Veryfast encoder preset. 3500 is significant overkill, and will put a large portion of your potential viewerbase into buffering hell (constantly buffering over and over, instead of smoothly playing back) due to their connection to the Twitch servers.
Also, you appear to have no microphone configured... which is generally a pretty important part of any livestream.

Beyond that, we'd need to see a logfile from a 5+ minute livestream to give feedback on system performance.

 

[fobsternd]

Where do I find the log file?