As the title says, I've encountered an Encoding error two days in a row now that has stopped my stream. Yesterday, the error came with only a few minutes left of my stream, so I just ignored it as it didn't have too much of an effect on things. However, today the encoding error came about midway through stream, and in order to restart my stream I was forced to force OBS to quit via Task Manager. I made sure that OBS Studio was fully updated today, and I also ran the Auto-Configuration Wizard in OBS to make sure that my settings were optimized for Twitch Streaming. Neither of these made any difference, as I obviously received the error again today. I'm including my logs from both yesterday and today, and hopefully someone can make some sense of them and give me some advice or insight as to what I can do to stop these errors from occurring in the future.
Encoder Error for two days in a row
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PaiSand
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You're using plugins that breaks OBS. Completely remove them.
Display capture must be on its own separated scene, never within game or window capture methods.
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Display capture must be on its own separated scene, never within game or window capture methods.
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Can you elaborate a bit more? Your answer doesn't really tell me a whole lot. You say I'm using plugins that break OBS, but that doesn't tell me which plugins, and as this has never been an issue before yesterday, it doesn't really point me in any particular direction. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by Display capture must be on its own separated scene. I don't use Display Capture at the same time as game or window capture. I only use Display Capture when I have a game that is not detected or does not work with Game Capture or Window Capture. I don't run Display Capture at the same time as Window or Game Capture.You're using plugins that breaks OBS. Completely remove them.
Display capture must be on its own separated scene, never within game or window capture methods.
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rockbottom
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I would never install SE or Win Capture Audio, both are known to cause issues. YMMV.
Several Scenes have multiple Display, Game or Window caps, doesn't matter if you hide them. They can interfere with each other.
As far as the encoder error, the release notes for the installed driver note that H264 has been fixed or improved with Twitch enhanced but it looks like H265 is still broken. AMD drivers are suspect.
Several Scenes have multiple Display, Game or Window caps, doesn't matter if you hide them. They can interfere with each other.
As far as the encoder error, the release notes for the installed driver note that H264 has been fixed or improved with Twitch enhanced but it looks like H265 is still broken. AMD drivers are suspect.
If I sound stupid or ignorant I apologize, as I've been using this setup for a few years now and never had any problems at all, so I'm just trying to get a bit more understanding so that I can get things sorted out and fixed.
What is Win Capture Audio? Also , why would 265 matter if I've got OBS set to AMD h.264? The only other encoding option that OBS gives me is x-Something-Or-Other.
I'm also confused on why the Auto-Configuration Wizard would recommend that I use the h.264 Encoding if that was not what was best.
As I said, I'm not trying to be difficult, and I'm definitely not trying to sound stupid, I'm just trying to get things fixed and trying to figure out what has suddenly changed to make this start happening all of a sudden when it hasn't been an issue for the past couple of years that I've been streaming.
rockbottom
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Both are plugins installed on your system.
Try not using Twitch enhanced & see if you get traction is about the only thing I can recommend at this point. I don't use Twitch & no AMD hardware to test.
Try not using Twitch enhanced & see if you get traction is about the only thing I can recommend at this point. I don't use Twitch & no AMD hardware to test.
I'll double check that I don't have Twitch Enhanced enabled, and try to track down whatever that Win Capture Audio plugin is. Thank you for at least giving me a least somewhere to begin.
I suppose if it doesn't work, I can always take the nuclear option and uninstall OBS and do a complete clean install and see where that gets me.
rockbottom
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Get rid of every last bit of Stream Elements before removing/re-installing OBS or you may need to do it again.