Question / Help DDOS issue. Is there a way to increase delay on OBS? If so, how?

[RagesEntity]

Have some insane people DDOSing and harassing me for around 2 years now. Increasing the delay on my stream would help a lot but 30 minutes of delay seems to be the max on OBS. Can this be increased somehow? Let me know, thank you!

 

[FerretBomb]

If you need more than 30 minutes of delay, just make a local recording and upload it to YouTube instead.

Alternately, be a bit more careful with and aware of what information you show on-stream, like your IP address. They can't just grab your IP from a stream to a given streaming platform. They can't DDOS you without your IP. If they're getting it via some means other than your livestreamed video, adding a delay will not prevent it from happening.

 

[RagesEntity]

It's not that they're DDOSing me they are ddosing the servers of the game I play on. Say I stream with no delay. I join a game - server get's DDOS'd.

I join a game with 30 minutes delay. I join a game - 30 minutes later the game is DDOS'd.

I was hoping to increase it to 1 hour or so or 1.5 hours as games rarely run that long.

So delay helps a lot if I've already finished a game by the time they want to DDOS the server. So there is not an option for more than 30 minutes of delay on OBS?

 

[FerretBomb]

There is not, no. Have you considered hiding the name/information of the server you're playing on? Perhaps with a strategically placed graphic or overlay? If they're finding the server you're playing on by searching for your in-game name or similar, a delay won't stop them from doing that anyway.

 

[RagesEntity]

Sadly that's not the case. The game is Heroes of Newerth (a dead game) and it's a very small community. So they just hunt whichever server I am on through and then overload it with spam. The couple admins left said they couldn't do much about it overall sadly. And no sadly no graphic will work to block it. Hence why I was hoping there was some option of more than 30 minutes delay as delay seems to help a lot since they don't get to DDOS real time and have fun with that.

 

[FerretBomb]

The problem is, if they know that you're streaming, they can do the same thing already. With a half-hour delay, you aren't going to be able to interact with chat anyway. It really sounds like you should just record, then upload the recorded video.

Ah, HoN. I gave them money at one point.
But when the Devs jumped in on being outright toxic to their top players, you knew the game was going down fast.

But yeah, no. 30 minutes is the maximum stream delay in OBS, and there's no way to extend it further. Sorry, man!

 

[RagesEntity]

Np thanks a lot though it's good to get confirmation on what I can and can't do so I'm not scratching my head. lol
Thank you!

 

[TryHD]

you can increase the delay as much as you want, just record your stuff and stream it with ffmpeg later.
you can do that with that command

ffmpeg -re -i yourrecording.flv -c copy -f flv rtmp://live.twitch.tv/app/<stream key>