Question / Help Dropping frames only with OBS

[Zelf Silverwolf]

Hi. How should I begin. Been using OBS for years. I'm the type of users that sticks with the default settings of programs. Never had any problems with it until now which is why I just made an account to be able to post.

I stream at 720p 60 fps 3500 bitrate. I've thoroughly tested using different streaming services like twitch and youtube, I even tried another program like xsplit for example. OBS is the only one that came back with dropped frames. Looking at twitch inspector, only the connections from OBS would spike down to 1000 bitrate before going back up again.

I've reinstalled OBS just to do a 5 minutes test stream of the WoW character selection screen for a log file. Yes, it will even drop frames at that screen.

Since xsplit didn't spike connecting to the same server. I think there's something wrong with how OBS communicate with the servers then since it would drop frames even in an idle still screen.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ee41035e4a462a497412ed0f22038c66

http://speedof.me/show.php?img=161216234409-4043.png

 

[EBrito]

OBS Studio has not ported yet "network layer" from clasic.
I mean this:
In Obs Classic you can check "reduce network impact". This is not possible (yet ) in OBS Studio. It´s not adaptative, but hardcoded.
If you use this tool
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/tech-support/478845-twitchtest-twitch-bandwidth-tester
for now you have to set TCP Window 64 K.

Maybe this is why those spikes appear.

A moderator / programmer can confirm this, but I am pretty sure of it.

 

[Zelf Silverwolf]

I've tried classic already. it's dropping frames during idle screen with no camera movement too.

Speaking of classic. Not getting those random spikes with CBR off. Obviously I would prefer to stream with CBR on because of the catchup of bitrate during high movement scenes. But that's a whole different story.

 

[Zelf Silverwolf]

Here's a couple pics from twitch inspector for connections with both obs and xsplit.

OBS - http://i.imgur.com/WGZogmj.png

Xsplit - http://i.imgur.com/xTEEudL.png

 

[Magen Nichols]

https://gist.github.com/644b9eae356491ae2ce790a8d071ecae

help please i keep dropping frames and i dont know why.

 

[Zelf Silverwolf]

Just a bit more follow up feedbacks. Found an old version of OBS 0.15.4 to test. Didn't get those erratic connection spikes down to 1000 bitrate or less with that version. Maybe the devs can compare notes between those versions to see what's different. Just an idea :)

OBS 0.15.4 - http://i.imgur.com/WRzCnsD.png

 

[EBrito]

https://gist.github.com/644b9eae356491ae2ce790a8d071ecae

help please i keep dropping frames and i dont know why.

Please, post your own thread with a log containing a stream/ recordings session.

 

[EBrito]

Just a bit more follow up feedbacks. Found an old version of OBS 0.15.4 to test. Didn't get those erratic connection spikes down to 1000 bitrate or less with that version. Maybe the devs can compare notes between those versions to see what's different. Just an idea :)

OBS 0.15.4 - http://i.imgur.com/WRzCnsD.png

Can you post the log of that session?
OBS 0.16.6 log says:
15:24:24.966: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 2693 (14.9%)

So, we can compare connection stalls.

 

[Zelf Silverwolf]

k

 

[EBrito]

OBS 0.16.6 log says:
15:24:24.966: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 2693 (14.9%)

OBS 0.15.4 log says:
01:40:01.038: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 1629 (5.7%)

Less network problems, but still a considerable amount

Read this post:
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/dropped-frames-disconnecting-lag-read-this-first.8870/

Inform of any improvement.

 

[Zelf Silverwolf]

I just watched my vod using that old version. It was very smooth without any stutter or skips despite it showing dropped frames which I now know that number doesn't really matter from another post. The main thing is no extreme spikes down below 1k bitrate. From a regular user's standpoint, this is a win in my book. Now I just need to tell my ocd side to ignore that number lol

 

[Zelf Silverwolf]

Most likely my last feedback on this issue. And a suggestion to anyone that was in the same situation. Do a windows reset. It didn't completely cure studio, but it didn't spike as often. Here's the good news, classic runs perfectly now.