Question / Help Does a stream delay help the quality of the stream

[Roids0777]

I had someone tell me last night that setting a 30 second stream delay will help the quality of the live stream. Is that true? I don't see how it could be because it's still processing the stream at the same speed just waiting to send it out.

 

[dping]

I had someone tell me last night that setting a 30 second stream delay will help the quality of the live stream. Is that true? I don't see how it could be because it's still processing the stream at the same speed just waiting to send it out.

post a link to your logfile

 

[Fantus_Longhorn]

I'm not sure a log file is relevant for this query.

You're right, it would make no difference. You'd need to encode at exactly the same rate to keep the delay at the same length, it would just wait longer before sending the stream.

 

[Roids0777]

I figured I just wanted a second source of information. Thank you.

 

[dping]

I figured I just wanted a second source of information. Thank you.

I see, I thought you knew something I didn't and I wanted to see evidence of it working better with a delay :P No, that typically isn't true. I can imagine in some rare situations it "could" but it would not help quality in any way. the connection to twitch takes what OBS gives at that moment so if 30 seconds is delayed stream is new to twitch once OBS starts to send to twitch. This is also why when disconnecting there is that same delay because OBS is still sending when you press stop.