I broadcast our church service to Facebook Live and constantly have issues with it disconnecting and reconnecting. I believe the problem is at the computer with what I'm seeing. The system is receiving both audio and video just fine and records perfectly. It is hard wired to the internet and our speed is supposed to be 10mbps, I'll be checking this, so sending the signal out should not be a problem. I assume that Facebook does not have an issue with receiving the signal. I think there has only been one Sunday in the months we've been doing this that we streamed with no issues. I think this only leaves the computer hardware/software and its ability to process and send the signal out. I also watch the broadcast on my phone so I can see what others are seeing. What I've noticed most Sundays is that during the service OBS will start dropping frames which starts to cause freezing and skips in the stream. If this gets too bad the stream will disconnect and then it takes 5 to 10 seconds for it to automatically reconnect and keep going. Most Sundays it will do this once or twice and we'll lose maybe 30 seconds of the service. Some Sundays it does this multiple times. I also watch the CPU usage which shows up on OBS and it is usually in the 20's to 30's, sometimes in the 40's or 50's so it does not appear to be chugging on something else in the background.
The laptop we are using is a Lenova AMD ryzen3 3200U 8MB RAM. The video input is from an Aver PZT camera and audio is a Yamaha 24 channel mixer.
Is the laptop strong enough? Could it be something in the OBS settings?
The laptop we are using is a Lenova AMD ryzen3 3200U 8MB RAM. The video input is from an Aver PZT camera and audio is a Yamaha 24 channel mixer.
Is the laptop strong enough? Could it be something in the OBS settings?