Question / Help Audio Popping and Cracking

Paul-2018

New Member
I'm doing a live YouTube stream of a video camera though an Aver Media capture device but
the audio comes from a standalone microphone which is plugged into the MIC input of the computer.

The issue doesn't happen all the time, sometimes the audio is OK, sometimes like the sample above,
happens regardless of the volume level, with or without drums playing, sometimes happens when
someone is just speaking.

  • There is no gain on the MIC input, same thing happens with the AUX input (Realtek sound-card).
  • Tried lowering the audio bit-rate to 128Kbps, didn't help.
  • The video bit-rate is 3500 Kbps, the stream health indicator remains green the
    entire time which supposedly means that the Internet is enough (we have a 10 MB upload speed).
  • I'm using the CUDA encoder together with a Xeon 8 core, CPU usage during streaming
    is between 5 and 10% only, the cpu usage never goes past 15%, audio issues happen
    regardless of the computer being used at the given time.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
 
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Paul-2018

New Member
In order to fix the issue I had to buy an usb audio interface and connect the mic to the interface instead of directly to the computer.
 
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