Question / Help Choppy BrowserSource | SOLVED (kinda)

muazamkamal

muazamkamal

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I didn't know when it started, but I just noticed it from my last stream. BrowserSource plays my StreamLabs (and others) alerts with a (presumably) low framerates, resulting in a choppy playback. I did check the original link/source and it is displaying fine. I even test the alert with both my Chrome browser and OBS SourceBrowser side by side and it is definitely choppy. Aside from that, everything else is running smoothly (as for as I know). You can see the clip linked below that the little animation popped out from the top left is choppy, and everything else is fine. Thank you in advance and any help is much appreciated.

Edit 1: I forgot to mention, I did try adding --disable-gpu, and even a clean reinstall of OBS. But it still persists.
Edit 2: Added a comparison video below.
Edit 3: Added a new live comparison recording, using BrowserSource and Window Capture. As well as new log to follow it.

Here are some links:-
Example clip
Comparison video
Live Comparison
Log
New Log (for the live comparison)
 
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I see the stutter/lag of that animation in the original video and I can see the difference in the comparison video.
But I got no Idea what causes ist.
Maybe it's a GPU or CPU bottleneck (which I see many people run into, because they don't limiting ingame fps).
The log shows no stream or recording, so it's hard to tell, if you GPU or the CPU is too busy.
 
BK-Morpheus said:
I see the stutter/lag of that animation in the original video and I can see the difference in the comparison video.
But I got no Idea what causes ist.
Maybe it's a GPU or CPU bottleneck (which I see many people run into, because they don't limiting ingame fps).
The log shows no stream or recording, so it's hard to tell, if you GPU or the CPU is too busy.
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My bad on that log part, because I reinstall OBS and try the BrowserSource then copy the log without recording anything. I was thinking about bottlenecks too, but aside from the BrowserSource, everything is buttery smooth. So I recorded and get the log, capturing the same thing using BrowserSource and Window Capture. You can find the link in the original post.

Edit: Forgot to mention. I did not limit my ingame FPS. But I do limit my capture FPS in OBS.
 
Welp, I'm moving to StreamLabs OBS. Although there are more (other) problems, being a beta program, at least the BrowserSource problem I'm having, (stated in the original post) is absent. Marking this as solved, kinda...
 
Osiris said:
They use the exact same Browser Source, so I doubt it's a problem with the browser source directly.
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I'm just a user, I don't really understand much from reading the log files. But what I know is that StreamLabs OBS doesn't have the BrowserSource issue that OBS have. Maybe something to do with the fact that StreamLabs OBS is running off of Electron Framework (IIRC). Maybe it's my own OBS acting up. Maybe, I don't know. But since nobody has any clue as to why this is happening, nor other people reported to have the same issue, I figured I should just close the thread. Much thanks and appreciation to those who replied.
 
I just found that for me enabling browser source optimization in advanced settings fixed the problem for me. I hope this helps!
 
T3g4n said:
I just found that for me enabling browser source optimization in advanced settings fixed the problem for me. I hope this helps!
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This is really weird for me I turned this setting off and restarted obs and ran it as admin and this fixed the lag for me...
 
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