StanleyTwoBrix
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I'm trying to set up web streaming for a friend's DIY music venue/music store (Main Drag Music, in Brooklyn, if you know it). The perfect storm of COVID, gentrification, and Amazon have been pretty brutal, so I have been volunteering a lot of my time (I'm retired).
I have no experience in this exactly, but I worked for 20 years doing visual effects (I was a compositor) so I have a pretty deep knowledge of things sort of, but not quite, related to this. Kind of.
I haven't had a problem using my Zoom Q8 as an audio and video source (not that I have noticed, anyway!).
The video appears to work fine when I use my friend's Canon T3i (much better lens/zoom) but if I try and use either the audio from the zoom or the built in mic on my laptop, the frame rate drops down to 5-10 FPS (just guessing).
I have tried routing the audio from the Canon (as I could feed the external mic in from a mixer) to see if the frame rate would go back to normal, but it seems that the T3i can not stream audio.
I'm using the Canon T3i not because I want to, but because my friend can't afford a new camera yet.
questions:
1) It seems like OBS is constantly scaling the input video. Is there a way to display a pixel-for-pixel, and free up resource from the transform, or is this being handled in VRAM (or whatever - I'm old enough to remember SGI's Geometry Engine and have been retired for a while, so I'm def not current) and not dropping my frame rate.
Somehow I suspect that the slow frame rate has something to do with trying to keep audio sync. Is there a way to optimize this?
2) Is my laptop too slow? Here are the specs:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,5
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 16 GB
System Firmware Version: 430.140.3.0.0
OS Loader Version: 540.120.3~22
3) Should I just be looking at a better camera and/or laptop (neither of which he can afford - COVID has been really rough on , one that streams audio and video? It would need to work well in low light/high contrast (dark room, flashing lights) and have a decent zoom - which is why we were trying to repurpose this old DSLR.
While the Zoom works fine streaming-wise, the lens is WAY too wide and the performance is not great in low light.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have no experience in this exactly, but I worked for 20 years doing visual effects (I was a compositor) so I have a pretty deep knowledge of things sort of, but not quite, related to this. Kind of.
I haven't had a problem using my Zoom Q8 as an audio and video source (not that I have noticed, anyway!).
The video appears to work fine when I use my friend's Canon T3i (much better lens/zoom) but if I try and use either the audio from the zoom or the built in mic on my laptop, the frame rate drops down to 5-10 FPS (just guessing).
I have tried routing the audio from the Canon (as I could feed the external mic in from a mixer) to see if the frame rate would go back to normal, but it seems that the T3i can not stream audio.
I'm using the Canon T3i not because I want to, but because my friend can't afford a new camera yet.
questions:
1) It seems like OBS is constantly scaling the input video. Is there a way to display a pixel-for-pixel, and free up resource from the transform, or is this being handled in VRAM (or whatever - I'm old enough to remember SGI's Geometry Engine and have been retired for a while, so I'm def not current) and not dropping my frame rate.
Somehow I suspect that the slow frame rate has something to do with trying to keep audio sync. Is there a way to optimize this?
2) Is my laptop too slow? Here are the specs:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,5
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 16 GB
System Firmware Version: 430.140.3.0.0
OS Loader Version: 540.120.3~22
3) Should I just be looking at a better camera and/or laptop (neither of which he can afford - COVID has been really rough on , one that streams audio and video? It would need to work well in low light/high contrast (dark room, flashing lights) and have a decent zoom - which is why we were trying to repurpose this old DSLR.
While the Zoom works fine streaming-wise, the lens is WAY too wide and the performance is not great in low light.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.