Curling Club Live Stream Issues

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mault89

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My curling club is has been using OBS for live streaming our games with 4-6 cameras per stream. We have one stream per sheet (like a lane) and a dedicated computer for each. We are using Lenovo THinkPad T470, Intel Core i5-6300 3.0 Ghz, 16 GB Ram.

1) Sometimes when we start the stream the camera does not refresh and shows a still image not a live image. When I log into the cameras IP control (amcrest) it shows the live image but OBS does not. Toggling visibility on the media source for each RTSP feed corrects it however that is not ideal. The camera shows the same "stuck" image both when streaming and when not streaming.

2) While working previously, occasionally now the feeds will develop a gray pixelation and blur instead of showing the image like seen in the linked stream:

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The image displays correctly in OBS preview when stream is not running.

What causes these issues?
 
See pinned post in this forum on posting OBS log from a Recording and/or Streaming session, ideally from the one you had the issue during

I (and I suspect others) don't know what you mean by "We have one stream per sheet" ??
Are these separate streams, or combined into one? Sounds like each lane has multiple cameras to an old computer.
Those are all wired cameras, right?

Assuming wired cameras with no change in resolution, frame rate, color depth, etc, I suspect Operating System and other updates (drivers, etc) have changed just enough, and/or maybe your OBS Settings, to push those OLD computers into overload. Those or Intel Core 6th gen, lower end of mid-range CPUs at the time, with 14th gen due next month or so
- or maybe an OS update and now a new/or more resource-intensive background processes running?
Microsoft has followed Apple model in turning lots on by default, assuming you have ALL the hardware resource you could want. which is a terrible assumption. The obligation is on the end-user to optimize their computer to meet their needs, especially with under-powered hardware

Or maybe an OBS Studio update (whole version) and a different default setting you weren't expecting (or at least, different default, and the old one worked for you, and the new one doesn't)?

What are you doing for real-time hardware resource monitoring? CPU, GPU, Disk & Network I/O, RAM, etc

Have you tested by dropping the # of cameras connected (sending data to PC, ie power camera off)?
 
Did you find the solution for your problem? I have a similar problem in our Curling arena in Sundsvall Sweden and I think it is the computer that is not powerfull enough. I lowered the output quality and changed the encoding and then it works but the quality is not as good as I would like it to be so I would like to have a confirmation that it is the computer.
 
UlfLindberg said:
Did you find the solution for your problem? I have a similar problem in our Curling arena in Sundsvall Sweden and I think it is the computer that is not powerfull enough. I lowered the output quality and changed the encoding and then it works but the quality is not as good as I would like it to be so I would like to have a confirmation that it is the computer.
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That deserves its own thread vs what is considered hijacking of this one.
And as I mentioned, and is a pinned post in this forum, post an OBS log from a Recording/Streaming session
With that said, an OBS Studio log can gives us some info, but it does NOT provide Operating System level hardware resource (CPU, RAM, GPU, Disk and Network I/O) utilization details (ie, are your reaching throughput thresholds). You need to do such monitoring on your own. but with the log, and your OBS settings, plus a description of you setup (number of cameras, resolution, frame rates, etc) we might be able to help.

Again, post the above to its own support request thread, NOT here
 
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