Question / Help Dropping frame rates when i shouldnt?

FerretBomb

Active Member
1) Fix your Custom Resolution. It should be 1920x1080, not 1980x1080. :)
2) Downscale to 720p (1.5 downscale).
3) Set bitrate to 1500/1500.
4) Drop AAC to 128, not 192. (It's not needed to be that high, really! Sounds great at 128. Honest. It's not MP3.)
5) Set quality to 8.

Early on in that log, you were looking pretty stellar. No dropped frames at all (network causes these), 0.1% lagged (local system causes this), and the only things that seemed to be problematic are your webcam (it appears to use a funky format) and your overlay bitmaps are either missing/moved or possibly slightly corrupt.

After testing this, you can bump to 2000/2000. Your stream will look better, but keep an eye on the Dropped Frames count at the bottom of the window. You can increase your bitrate by 100kbps at a time (rate and buffer) after this until you start dropping frames. Then you just back off a bit, and a little more to leave some bandwidth for any online-multiplayer communication needed.
Looks like on the second-to-last and third-to-last test, your network connection to the server just got flaky for a bit. You were streaming initially just fine at 1500 for the first number of tests.
 

Eggysc2

New Member
Yes I started to lag quite a bit when i started playing SC2.
The first bit I was streaming mostly internet browsing application game.

Like I played a game with hardly any jitters and then the following game it went to shit.
 

FerretBomb

Active Member
Okay, meaning your connection is a little flaky, and you'll need to back your bitrate down slightly so you don't get lag in-game, leaving enough margin for the connection to go sour without the stream keeling over as well. :)

After doing all the other recommendations above.
Especially the sound one; I see everyone with that CRANKED way the heck up, when it absolutely doesn't need to be. Hell, most streams probably wouldn't even notice the difference if it was dropped under 96kbps. AAC is much, MUCH better at getting good results with the bitrate it has available than MP3 ever was (there's a REASON that XSplit made AAC a licensed-only option!).
 
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