Got a new upgraded PC and my bitrate wont go out of the red when trying to stream. :( PLEASE HELP!

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mikeyboy399

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I used to stream with a small compact desktop with a old i3 in it. I streamed in 720p at 30 fps and was always in the green as far as bitrate goes. I recently got a new gaming PC with these specs: Intel i5 13th gen, 32GB of RAM, RTX 3070, and gigabyte motherboard. When I tried to stream in 1080p at 60fps I could not get out of the red for my bitrate it would go up to 3000 at the highest. I had it set to 6000 in OBS settings. I also tried to go back to my old output setting at 720p at 30 fps and it was the same situation. Please help if you can I want to get back into streaming. Also I use a wired connection with 1 GB fiber optic wifi from COX communications.

Here is my log: https://obsproject.com/logs/daBjtBTTf93rQ7Hc

Thanks again hope I can get some help.
 
deFrisselle

deFrisselle

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Check your connection and have a look to see that Twitch servers get at their end ( https://inspector.twitch.tv )

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
obsproject.com obsproject.com
 
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mikeyboy399

New Member
I tested my connection with ookla speed test and my download was 863 mbps. I did the twitch test and every server was in kbps
 
PaiSand

PaiSand

Active Member
  1. Download speed means almost nothing for streaming. You need to know the upload speed, specifically for rtmp protocol
  2. Twitch test gives you an idea of the quality of your internet connection (upload on rtmp protocol) against Twitch servers. Anything bellow 90% quality is bad.
 
deFrisselle

deFrisselle

Member
Well, what was your upload speed, and the report from Twitch Inspector
Also, for a fibre gigabit connection, 863 Mbps seems rather low
 
koala

koala

Active Member
From your log:
Code: 
02:36:14.317: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Connecting to RTMP URL rtmp://dfw02.contribute.live-video.net/app...
02:36:14.354: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Interface: Realtek Gaming 2.5GbE Family Controller (ethernet, 1000↓/1000↑ mbps)
02:36:14.354: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Interface has non-zero error counters (0/19 errors, 26515/0 discards)
[...}
37:22.691: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 2650 (65.8%)
02:37:22.691: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Freeing 1803 remaining packets
Two things to notice:
  1. Interface has non-zero error counters
  2. dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls
Non-zero error counters could indicate a hardware issue with networking between the network interface card in your computer and the switch port where the cable from that card is plugged in - probably your router. There are 19 send errors and 26515 discarded incoming packets. These are not reports for network congestion, this means garbled network packets on your local network. Broken packets, due to something like bad cabling or bad NIC configuration.

If streaming worked before for your old computer, your internet connection is ok.

Check cabling, change the LAN cable of your new PC. Check NIC configuration for your PC and for the port on the router where you plug it in: make sure both ports are set to auto-negotiation and both negotiated at 1 GBit. This is the default, so if you never changed anything and never used some snakeoil "network optimization" software, you will find both at auto-negotiate. But do check.

If you don't find any hardware issue, might also have something to do with the firewall configuration on your new PC. Make sure OBS isn't blocked.
 
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