Error: YouTube is not receiving enough video to maintain smooth streaming. As such, viewers will experience buffering.

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NoelDragneel

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I've Being streaming on youtube for a month and I used to have the default settings on and it worked well. But recently I've been having issues with streaming as the Msg shows and my stream keeps disconnecting.

"YouTube is not receiving enough video to maintain smooth streaming. As such, viewers will experience buffering."
I don't know if it's because I changed from Wireless to Ethernet but it was a little while back cause I was able to stream good for a few days with ethernet.
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StreamElements got installed recently for overlays and might be the issue?

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Just some settings issue that I am unable to find out.

 
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Asar817

New Member
NoelDragneel said:
I've Being streaming on youtube for a month and I used to have the default settings on and it worked well. But recently I've been having issues with streaming as the Msg shows and my stream keeps disconnecting.

"YouTube is not receiving enough video to maintain smooth streaming. As such, viewers will experience buffering."
I don't know if it's because I changed from Wireless to Ethernet but it was a little while back cause I was able to stream good for a few days with ethernet.
Or
StreamElements got installed recently for overlays and might be the issue?

Or
Just some settings issue that I am unable to find out.

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NoelDragneel said:
I've Being streaming on youtube for a month and I used to have the default settings on and it worked well. But recently I've been having issues with streaming as the Msg shows and my stream keeps disconnecting.

"YouTube is not receiving enough video to maintain smooth streaming. As such, viewers will experience buffering."
I don't know if it's because I changed from Wireless to Ethernet but it was a little while back cause I was able to stream good for a few days with ethernet.
Or
StreamElements got installed recently for overlays and might be the issue?

Or
Just some settings issue that I am unable to find out.

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I'm having the same issue now...
 
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Graememo

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It seems like there is a trend here.
I've been streaming to YouTube. Like many people, it worked well for a start, then I started to get this error, and nothing had changed as far as I know.
If I don't use OBS at all, and stream directly to YouTube using exactly the same setup, an external camera, it works great.
So that seems to suggest that the computer to YouTube connection is fine. My logic tells me that the problem lies with OBS itself.
Maybe that's why all the suggestions about using a wired LAN connection and suchlike don't seem to make any difference.
I can't figure out why it works well for a start (days and days), then this error starts for no apparent reason. And this seems to be the case for lots of people. Is there some sort of limitation built in to OBS that we're not told about?
OBS seems to be a great bit of kit, does just what I need, so this is really frustrating.
R1ch's post is very informative, but seems to deal mainly with external connection issues. It doesn't explain why it works for a while, then starts playing up, for lots of folks.
 
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konsolenritter

Active Member
Well, understand your point.
The problem of retracing or reproducing by the volunteers here is - honestly in most cases - the imprecise and vague description of the issue(s) by TO's.

It's up to the point as of words saying "exactly the same setup, an external camera". Please don't misunderstand, all is great. But there are - at least perceived - hundreds of ways to connect to stream services: different protocols, different containers/muxes, different codings, different bitrates, servers and so on. And thats the problem. Nobody knows how your external camera connects to youtube, and why it works then (compared to the way obs does that).

Then to conclude or derive the opposite (why something under other pre-conditions fails) is often like doing the crystal marble of a prophesier to decide and tell then, why it works or why not. It doesn't help much here. Hope you understand my point.

All i can say is that there is no designated border or constraint (public or secret) builtin into obs that is hindering you to stream by intent. :)
 
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merlin02131

Member
Hi Everyone :

Sunday Mornings in Massachusetts from 08:30 Am until approx 11:30 we stream our church services and We started experiencing this as well . Mostly between 08:30 Am until 09:30 and maybe a couple of times after . A few weeks ago out of the blue it started occurring with no changes to anything technically or other . I see it using a laptop with plenty of horsepower , wireless AP's to Comcast - 300 down and 35 up . I have checked the AP's the Peplink router and Comcast via Wireshark etc. and can find no issues on this end so far as We are only sending 2.50 meg to Youtube as a fairly low rate (720P 10 FPS ) . It has been over 18 months with this set up with no issues until recently .Wondering about Comcast throttling but it only occurs randomly . I have no reports from users as they would send me a message but unsure of any issues being caused due to not seeing it myself . I am going to check the PC as we did upgrade following Microsoft upgrades etc. Any more info I will update this post next week ! Thx !
 
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skaggsthom

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I started to get the same problem when I choose to update my obs. Something in the update has changed and causing all this fuss. Obs can you go back and research to find the problem.
 
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