I am new to all of the OBS stuff and so the settings are foreign to me, and that may be the problem, but I cannot help but to think that something is wrong. My computer is relatively nice, with an intel core i7 4790k as well as a geforce gtx 970(Dunno if that matters as much), and I have been trying to get my settings to be high quality. There was a time where recording with a 20,000 bitrate was fine on obs classic, and nothing ever went wrong until recently. Now, though, I cant record with it and so I am trying studio. I tried going back to 20k bitrate, with superfast encoding preset on as well as native 1920x1080 res and 60 fps but my recordings were turning out bad and I got encoding overloaded warnings. I have since changed the settings 5 times, the last one being on a bitrate of 5000 with x264 encoder and superfast preset on. recording quality was on same as stream, though initially it was on indistinguishable. FPS was 30, and res was 1920x1080 still. Again, I cannot even fathom that a pretty decent computer couldn't handle a decent bitrate and everything on a local recording, but I am new to this so I suppose I really don't know... I am sorry, but I don't know how to post a log file.
Question / Help Encoding Overloaded Problems?
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Mroczny_Gustaw
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Do you really need CBR rate control in recordins?
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/
If you dont want to set it manually, this guide is the same as "x264 low cpu" in simple output mode.
If you have win8.1 or 10 Id recommend trying quicksync in your cpu with ICQ rate controll to save cpu load. it works great for me with some minor quirk https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...y-recognized-by-sony-vegas.47553/#post-212599
you may want to check my signature for general important info
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-make-high-quality-local-recordings.16/
If you dont want to set it manually, this guide is the same as "x264 low cpu" in simple output mode.
If you have win8.1 or 10 Id recommend trying quicksync in your cpu with ICQ rate controll to save cpu load. it works great for me with some minor quirk https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...y-recognized-by-sony-vegas.47553/#post-212599
you may want to check my signature for general important info
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beastmodegamer
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Hey there Vito. Sorry if im bringing back an old thread (a couple week) but I know what you mean. I have the EXACT gpu and CPU setup. I literally made a forum account to mention this lol.
MY main question is do you also have the first few frames of the recording frozen when it says "encoding overload"? like when you first boot up obs studio and hit that record button, on the bottom right of the obs studio window actually says "encoding overload". the message dissappears eventually if you watch closely.... Mine does that and when I play the recording but in the recordning itself the audio is going but the video stops and resumes when the message during the recording session dissappears.. weird huh? (ps. this is bitrate of 12000 and using x264 encoding at 1080p, 30fps)
Well anyways besides our hardware being the same, it happened to me after I moved from OBS classic to OBS studio. Unfortunately there are a TON of things from classic that I preffered over studio as it was way more fluid and I guess we'll just have to live with it....
Eg) fps counter when streaming/recording and even the preview. The adding "crops" could also be better....
anyways if you have any other issues with obs studio let me know and I can test them out since we pretty much have the same thing lol
MY main question is do you also have the first few frames of the recording frozen when it says "encoding overload"? like when you first boot up obs studio and hit that record button, on the bottom right of the obs studio window actually says "encoding overload". the message dissappears eventually if you watch closely.... Mine does that and when I play the recording but in the recordning itself the audio is going but the video stops and resumes when the message during the recording session dissappears.. weird huh? (ps. this is bitrate of 12000 and using x264 encoding at 1080p, 30fps)
Well anyways besides our hardware being the same, it happened to me after I moved from OBS classic to OBS studio. Unfortunately there are a TON of things from classic that I preffered over studio as it was way more fluid and I guess we'll just have to live with it....
Eg) fps counter when streaming/recording and even the preview. The adding "crops" could also be better....
anyways if you have any other issues with obs studio let me know and I can test them out since we pretty much have the same thing lol
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Mroczny_Gustaw
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yes it happens f for me because im recording to external usb drive which is almost always asleep when i start recording. if your recording drive is not C: then poke it with something before start or disable disk sleep in power management
beastmodegamer
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That's a very good point, actually. im glad you mentioned that since I actually am not recording to C: . Cheers :)
fafnirknight
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I only started using obs a month ago and its been 3 weeks since I was able to use my obs application to stream since my obs application keeps telling me that my encoding is overloading even though I use the same applications I used when I stream during the time I was able to stream. I tried changing my settings and stuff but same thing happens. So if there is a way to fix this please tell me so that I could start using the application again that would be a great help. ^-^
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