hedgehog90
New Member
I tried OBS Studio last night for a live-stream the first time instead of X-Split.
My upload speed consistently shows as being at about 3000kbps, but I guess it's not a true indicator of my stable upload rate.
No matter what bitrate I streamed at, I experienced huge amounts of dropped frames due to the network (according to Stats).
It came and went in waves, my stream would be perfect for several minutes, and then I'd get a flurry of 5 second periods of low framerate (I assume OBS Studio was dropping all the non-key frames, effectively quartering the frame-rate).
As the night went on and we entered peak internet usage times (9-10pm), the amount of dropped frames increased, to the point where around of a third of frames were being dropped.
I kept lowering my encode VBR too, so at this point I was at 500kbps. It seemed to make no difference how much I reduced it, as long as it wasn't over 2,500kbps.
From 11pm - 12:30am there was a significant decrease in dropped frames.
It would all seem to indicate that local internet usage in my area is affecting my connection.
However, I had never experienced this issue with X-Split, or rather, not in the same way.
In X-Split, I had a different problem - my stream quality was terrible and I could never work out why, I never experienced dropped frames but I think it handled my unstable connection differently, instead of dropping frames I think it reduced the quality to fit the periods of strangled bandwidth, but my avg video quality was sooooooooo much better when I tried OBS Studio.
Does any of this sound familiar? If anyone else has had a similar experience I'd like to know what I could try to improve matters.
Also, is there an app for monitoring connection stability and/or packet loss that might help me diagnose the issue further? (not a basic upload speed test)
For instance, if I can prove it's packet loss / a network fault I might be able to sort it out with my ISP.
My upload speed consistently shows as being at about 3000kbps, but I guess it's not a true indicator of my stable upload rate.
No matter what bitrate I streamed at, I experienced huge amounts of dropped frames due to the network (according to Stats).
It came and went in waves, my stream would be perfect for several minutes, and then I'd get a flurry of 5 second periods of low framerate (I assume OBS Studio was dropping all the non-key frames, effectively quartering the frame-rate).
As the night went on and we entered peak internet usage times (9-10pm), the amount of dropped frames increased, to the point where around of a third of frames were being dropped.
I kept lowering my encode VBR too, so at this point I was at 500kbps. It seemed to make no difference how much I reduced it, as long as it wasn't over 2,500kbps.
From 11pm - 12:30am there was a significant decrease in dropped frames.
It would all seem to indicate that local internet usage in my area is affecting my connection.
However, I had never experienced this issue with X-Split, or rather, not in the same way.
In X-Split, I had a different problem - my stream quality was terrible and I could never work out why, I never experienced dropped frames but I think it handled my unstable connection differently, instead of dropping frames I think it reduced the quality to fit the periods of strangled bandwidth, but my avg video quality was sooooooooo much better when I tried OBS Studio.
Does any of this sound familiar? If anyone else has had a similar experience I'd like to know what I could try to improve matters.
Also, is there an app for monitoring connection stability and/or packet loss that might help me diagnose the issue further? (not a basic upload speed test)
For instance, if I can prove it's packet loss / a network fault I might be able to sort it out with my ISP.
