Question / Help Choppy / Laggy Stream Playback

HaydnAhmed

New Member
I tried to stream TF2 today, and whilst the game itself was played at a decent FPS, the playback was very choppy. Any fix for this?

Example: http://www.twitch.tv/magicalkillacow/b/386974812

Code:
Open Broadcaster Software v0.472b - 64bit ( ^ω^)
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CPU Name: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor
CPU Speed: 3000MHz
Physical Memory:  5887MB Total, 2980MB Free
stepping id: 3, model 5, family 15, type 0, extmodel 8, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 4, total cores 4
monitor 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1280, 1024}
Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7600 
Aero is Disabled
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Adapter 1
  Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9200  
  Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 247005184
  Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 2751062016
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
  Multithreaded optimizations: On
  Base resolution: 1280x720
  Output resolution: 852x480
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Loading up D3D10...
Playback device Default
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Using desktop audio input: Speakers (2- High Definition Audio Device)
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Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (C-Media USB Audio Device   )
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Audio Encoding: AAC
    bitrate: 320
Using Window Capture
Using graphics capture
x264: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast FastShuffle SSEMisalign LZCNT
x264: profile High, level 3.1
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Video Encoding: x264
    fps: 30
    width: 852, height: 480
    preset: veryfast
    CBR: no
    CFR: no
    max bitrate: 2500
    buffer size: 2500
    quality: 7
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Syncing audio to video time
SharedTexCapture hooked
Total frames rendered: 2570, number of frames that lagged: 519 (20.19%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
x264: frame I:17    Avg QP:18.91  size: 36826
x264: frame P:703   Avg QP:25.71  size:  1909
x264: frame B:1812  Avg QP:31.76  size:   119
x264: consecutive B-frames:  4.1%  0.8%  1.4% 93.6%
x264: mb I  I16..4: 40.9% 18.8% 40.3%
x264: mb P  I16..4:  2.6%  2.8%  0.8%  P16..4:  4.0%  1.9%  0.8%  0.0%  0.0%    skip:87.1%
x264: mb B  I16..4:  0.1%  0.0%  0.0%  B16..8:  0.6%  0.2%  0.0%  direct: 0.1%  skip:99.0%  L0:42.0% L1:50.4% BI: 7.6%
x264: 8x8 transform intra:37.4% inter:25.8%
x264: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 47.5% 32.9% 13.5% inter: 0.8% 0.5% 0.1%
x264: i16 v,h,dc,p: 51% 29% 14%  7%
x264: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 12% 33% 29%  3%  4%  3%  5%  3%  7%
x264: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 23% 30% 20%  2%  6%  3%  6%  3%  6%
x264: i8c dc,h,v,p: 60% 24% 15%  2%
x264: Weighted P-Frames: Y:1.7% UV:0.4%
x264: kb/s:146.55
=====Stream End=======================================================================

Profiler results:

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frame - [100%] [avg time: 32.636 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 97.8%] [unaccounted: 2.22%]
| scene->Preprocess - [2.79%] [avg time: 0.911 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
| video encoding and uploading - [95%] [avg time: 31 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 94.9%] [unaccounted: 0.11%]
| | CopyResource - [90.9%] [avg time: 29.658 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | conversion to 4:2:0 - [0.104%] [avg time: 0.034 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | call to encoder - [3.89%] [avg time: 1.268 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | sending stuff out - [0.0123%] [avg time: 0.004 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
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dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
Your graphics card is really old...it was an entry-level card in 2008, and only has 256MB VRAM. You're going to have a hard time running Game Capture very well with that. You might try playing in Windowed/Borderless mode and capturing with Window Capture (with Aero on) or Monitor capture (with Aero off).
 
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