Facebook skipping and bitrate dropping

Chuayanca

New Member
Currently, OBS is connected to multiple streams. We Stream to Facebook, YouTube twitch and Instagram. When our church goes live, Facebook image skips but all the other streams work well. The bitrate on OBS goes in and out. The bitrate goes to zero and it goes back to 6000 or 7000. The rate is set at 7K. We have upload speed of 50mbps. Please look at attachments.
What could be causing this issue?
 

Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
LOTS of things could cause this issue, many of which won't be identifiable on the livestream PC, and especially not from OBS Studio logs
also - no logs/attachments in your post

7000kpbs is what we use for our HoW livestream of a single 1080p30 stream to Facebook. 3 (or 4) streams in that same bandwidth is going to be low quality.
And is your 50mbps upload on fiber? if cellular, then jitter, latency, and natural variance in throughput is to be expected
what other traffic is using that link? if you allow Guest WiFi, if you are like most locations, you have no idea what Guest traffic looks like (which could cause contention)? Does your network have QoS settings to Prioritize Livestream traffic and/or make sure other traffic doesn't contend?

Are you using the exact same stream encoding settings for all 3 targets, or are they unique (meaning 3or 4X rendering workload for the PC)?) OS and driver updates can change performance. If using recommended (unique) encoding settings for each CDN stream, I'd be more inclined to use restream.io or similar (stream to single target, let service replicate stream)

side note: Personally, I prevented multi-streaming, as it dilutes sense of community. And in our case, community was on 1 platform primarily anyway, though in last 5 years that is changing, so possibly we will change? We do Record locally (at much higher bitrate) and now upload to other services later (not livestream). Unless the congregation is huge, multi-platform livestreaming makes no sense to me.
 

Chuayanca

New Member
Whoa…thank you for your feedback! Unfortunately, I’m not that technical.
I will post logs this weekend
I think I will go back to restream and see if that changes anything. I was trying to avoid paying them for multi streaming by using the multi stream OBS plug in Aitum.
We do have 50mbps on fiber direct connected. I did tried turning off the guest WiFi but there is still an issue.
I’m not familiar with QoS settings, any YouTubes you recommend reviewing?
I will discuss the multi stream and uploading the content after the live session with the senior Pastor. However we used retream in the past without any issues. That might be the answer.
Thanks again!
 

Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
QoS = Quality of Service - basically having network settings to make sure certain traffic gets priority over others (ie, make sure Guest WiFi, in this case, doesn't cause contention). How one accomplishes that depends on the network devices in use (firewall, router, access points, etc)
 
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