Dropping frames but youtube shows excellent connection?

DopeVulcan

DopeVulcan

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Hello everyone!
I'm having a bit of a strange issue here. I've been dropping frames like nobodies business lately, which to my understanding is bandiwdth/netowork issues on my end. But I noticed on Youtube's end when I'm live that the stream doesn't appear to be laggy and shows I have an excellent connection. Am I not actually dropping frames and OBS is just bugged? I've been working on my network trying to fix the frame drops but this part of it just confuses me.
Thanks for your help!
 

Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...

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qhobbes said:

Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...

OBS Studio creates a log file each time you run it which contains very useful diagnostic information. Without a log file, it's much harder for any support volunteers to figure out problems and your post may be ignored. To upload a log file, go to the Help menu > Log Files > Upload Last Log...
obsproject.com
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dropped frames because of insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls is all I can make sense of in the log
 
Speedtest sites are useless for livestreamers. They test peak burst speed to their server, not the minimum constant throughput to your stream ingest server that livestreaming relies on. In fact, many of them throw out the 'worst' results and ignore them, to give consumers a result closer to their ISP's billed speed.

It's the difference between standing on the ground and measuring to the top of your head (minimum constant), or jumping and touching as high on the wall as you can, and saying you're that tall (peak burst).

If you were streaming to Twitch, there's a testing tool just for that which reflects speeds and connection quality to each server.
Unfortunately, YouTube disallows bandwidth testing to their servers, so a similar tool cannot be produced for YT streamers.
 
The upload speed where I stream is 5.5 Mbps. I stream at 5500-6000 VBR with Dynamic Bitrate. Does the quality occasionally get reduced? Yes. Do I drop frames? No. It works.
 
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