Question / Help Encoding Overloaded Help

[Burner54]

Went a whole day trying to fix this and tryed all the setings that i have searched and noting have fixed it so far..

 

[carlmmii]

There's no recording attempt in those logs, so we aren't able to see what settings are being used for encoding. Make sure you're uploading the correct log file.

Although, with what is in there, the first thing I would do is turn off Game DVR background recording. If you're using NVenc for OBS recording, this will compete with the game DVR for encoding resources.

 

[Burner54]

I dont know if i did everything right if ididnt sorry i did what you said and Turned off Game DVR and dont know if i posted the right log in

 

[carlmmii]

It still shows that background DVR is still on, but it doesn't appear to be the actual issue.

You're encountering up to 10% rendering lag, which is a result of OBS not getting enough priority for GPU resources. Turn Game Mode on in windows, and run OBS as administrator (right-click on the program, select "Run as administrator" -- this must be done for every launch).

In addition to this, on the encoding side you're using features that also require extra GPU resources. Turn Look Ahead and Psychovisual tuning both off.

 

[Burner54]

Did what you said turned Look ahead and Psycho visuals both off and Game mode on but i still get
Encoding overload any other solution you can think of? also thanks for Helping

 

[Narcogen]

04:21:38.896: YUV mode: 709/Full

Change to 709/Partial.

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Introduction. For higher compression rate, video encoders usually use methods of representation of each video frame as 3 separate channels: one for luminosity and two for color. This allow to compress color info separately from the luminance...

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04:22:25.284: [jim-nvenc: 'recording_h264'] settings:
04:22:25.284: rate_control: CBR
04:22:25.284: bitrate: 20000

Don't use CBR for recording, it's mostly for streaming. Use CQP rate control and a quality setting between 14 (high quality) and 23 (good quality).

04:26:25.114: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 11 (0.1%)
04:26:25.114: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
04:26:25.115: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 7980/14384 (55.5%)

That is... WAY higher than it should be given what you're trying to do, as far as I can see.

Are you using some custom ffmpeg output options I can't see?

04:22:25.349: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
04:22:25.349: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'C:/Users/Christopher/Videos/Recordings/2020-02-09 04-22-25.mp4'...
04:26:25.114: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'C:/Users/Christopher/Videos/Recordings/2020-02-09 04-22-25.mp4' stopped

Can you switch to simple output mode and choose indistinguishable quality, large file size, and run a test and post that logfile?

Are you recording to an SSD or to a spinning drive?

 

[Burner54]

changed everything to what you told me
No im just using Simple output option
and im recording to a spinning drive

and heres the log file you asked for

 

[Narcogen]

01:16:14.184: Output 'simple_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 3745 (12.6%)
01:16:14.185: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
01:16:14.185: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 11411/29683 (38.4%)

Logfile shows GPU and encoding lag.

GPU Overload Issues

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Again, I'm not sure of the cause, but that is what is causing frame drops.

00:59:08.348: Running as administrator: false

Try running OBS as administrator.

If you can test recording to a faster drive that might indicate whether or not part of the encoding lag is due to output device speed.

 

[Burner54]

The game was eating all my Vram so i lowered the resolution to the lower there was little Encoding error much better than before but Encoding error is still there
Game was eating 2.71 / 10.87G of Vram

This is the log ins with Administrator on

 

[carlmmii]

I would try raising the CQP value to 40 and testing again, just as a troubleshooting step -- I'm wondering if the act of writing to disk is a bottleneck to the encoder.

Also, I just noticed this...

13:58:52.013: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 17763 (revision: 973; 64-bit)

Update windows. Then, enable game mode.

 

[Burner54]

sorry for the super late reply when i made it to 30 CQP(thats the max for me not 40) i have less Encoding overloding but the recording looks laggy and grainy (but its just a test anyway) also enabled game settings, Thank you for the help