Dropped Frames... OBS or YouTube | NOT INTERNET RELATED

[Snoozyy]

TLDR; Dropped frames, not an internet issue, only with YouTube.


For the better part of over a month now, I've been dealing with dropped frames. This issue only occurs with YouTube, and I've confirmed this by streaming to Twitch and Kick. 0 dropped frames, 0 bitrate drops, 100% smoothness.

RTMP: When streaming under RTMP, the bitrate drops like crazy, and the dropped frames follow along as well as color changes to red.

HLS: When streaming under HLS, the bitrate will drop to 0, stabilize back out to 8000 (what I have it set at), jump up to something extremely high, back down to 8000, and drop down to 0 again. Remains in the green the entire time. (On one stream, at 31 minutes in, I'm at 20,000 dropped frames, similar with another stream at 11k dropped frames.

I've done everything, calling my ISP, restarting my modem, restarting the router, removing all network drivers from my PC and reinstalling, trying it on a separate laptop, and the problem just continues. I've tried SLOBS, the same problem, removing every single file about OBS and reinstalling, same problem.

I've noticed that while scrolling on other forums, other users have had the same issue beginning in late 2024, just as I have which leads me to the question, has anyone found a fix, or is this a YouTube issue, that will take a long time to be fixed with the rate that YouTube moves. I am truly desperate at this point, as viewers are noticing the problem and it's ruining major points of a stream.

LOG: https://obsproject.com/logs/Qs8E8Jwdw03br2Uw

 

[prgmitchell]

Your title says "NOT INTERNET RELATED" but unfortunately this is not the case, it is an issue between you/your ISP/Youtube. You'll want to get back on the phone with your ISP and try to have them escalate a bit further down the support line but this wouldn't be something we could solve.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

most likely unrelated... but you have audio devices with mismatched sampling rates... which is not advisable

20:13:59.672: audio settings reset:​

20:13:59.672: samples per sec: 48000​

....​

20:14:00.992: WASAPI: Device 'Audience Mix (BEACN Mix Create)' [96000 Hz] initialized (source: Mic/Aux)​

Basic scientific method/troubleshooting:
- Have you tested with your computer at another location/ISP?
- Have you tested with your a clean computer OS and OBS Studio?
- Have you tested with a clean OBS Studio, in portable mode, with ABSOLUTELY no plugins (especially not that PoS streamlabs/streamelements) and with no filters/effects, etc.

In years prior, there were cases reported in this forum with either a bad streamelements plugin (or a mis-config?) that caused network traffic issues (DNS request flood/timeouts? don't recall exactly).. also, beware that previously it has been reported that PoS plugin changed some core elements of OBS Studio, so simply disabling/uninstalling the plugin did NOT put OBS Studio back into a clean state (required re-install)... just an FYI if testing/playing​

 

[Snoozyy]

most likely unrelated... but you have audio devices with mismatched sampling rates... which is not advisable

20:13:59.672: audio settings reset:​

20:13:59.672: samples per sec: 48000​

....​

20:14:00.992: WASAPI: Device 'Audience Mix (BEACN Mix Create)' [96000 Hz] initialized (source: Mic/Aux)​

Basic scientific method/troubleshooting:
- Have you tested with your computer at another location/ISP?
- Have you tested with your a clean computer OS and OBS Studio?
- Have you tested with a clean OBS Studio, in portable mode, with ABSOLUTELY no plugins (especially not that PoS streamlabs/streamelements) and with no filters/effects, etc.

In years prior, there were cases reported in this forum with either a bad streamelements plugin (or a mis-config?) that caused network traffic issues (DNS request flood/timeouts? don't recall exactly).. also, beware that previously it has been reported that PoS plugin changed some core elements of OBS Studio, so simply disabling/uninstalling the plugin did NOT put OBS Studio back into a clean state (required re-install)... just an FYI if testing/playing​

All of the basic methods have been tested, same problem.

Running in safe mode results in the same problem, and FYI, the streamlabs/streamelements are just browser sources, not actual plugins if that makes any difference. Same issue though, I guess it's back to my ISP, for the same repeated process of absolutely nothing.

 

[Vergissmeinnicht]

I have the same problem with Red Ping in OBS (me too got this problem 14 January 2025 (version OBS 31.0.1)

 

[Snoozyy]

Got a new modem & router, as well as called my ISP and had them come over and check. Everything is fine and normal, and yet I'm still having the same issues that others have reported as well. Dropped frames that are out of control and happen at random points. My suspicion is leading to Youtube, and it's getting ridiculous.