WildingPine
New Member
Okay. Lemme preface this by saying I have looked through the FAQ, read the "read this first" posts, gone through half a dozen settings and I'm still pretty damn lost. Can we please assume this thread is going to take roughly the same tone as explaining to your grandma how the tv remote works? Okay good.
The first thing I'd like help with is identifying what terminology to use when describing my problem. I do not know the difference between lag, latency, frame drops, etc etc so I may very well use the wrong word. I'm going to try and describe what is happening with no jargon so as to avoid this issue, and if you're going to use these terms, please assume that I'm going to have difficulty following.
My problem is: I want to stream my digital drawing process with commentary to twitch. I am not running any games. Just screen capture, GIMP and audio.
I load "Streamlabs OBS". I have set the frame rate to 30, the base canvas to the smallest value, resolution to ~600x400, downscale filter to bilinear, something something to "ultrafast", the encoding to AMD, the bitrate to <2500. As far as I can tell I should be producing a video pixellated enough to post nudity on youtube without being demonetized.
At this point my CPU is running at about 60%, memory and disk about 30-50%.
I click 'go live', and the preview window sprials into infinity, all good. I go into GIMP and do a very basic, small test image using text and a coloured background. I change the colour of the background once a second so I can see when the video stops on one frame for a while. Run for a minute or so, click 'stop streaming' in OBS. Close OBS. When I then load the video recording (not the stream), I get one frame for every 10 seconds or so. Other videos of the same format play as normal. When I check the stream recording, it also has the same frames, with the same difference in timing. It is identical to the recorded video. Part of the log file says
[000:00:05:28.980.428.200][Info] Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4757/4826 (98.6%)
Which suggests my issue is encoding lag. I do not know what this is or how to fix it, or even if that is the actual problem.
Firstly, how should I be describing this problem when searching for help?
Secondly, anyone have any idea how to fix it?
The first thing I'd like help with is identifying what terminology to use when describing my problem. I do not know the difference between lag, latency, frame drops, etc etc so I may very well use the wrong word. I'm going to try and describe what is happening with no jargon so as to avoid this issue, and if you're going to use these terms, please assume that I'm going to have difficulty following.
My problem is: I want to stream my digital drawing process with commentary to twitch. I am not running any games. Just screen capture, GIMP and audio.
I load "Streamlabs OBS". I have set the frame rate to 30, the base canvas to the smallest value, resolution to ~600x400, downscale filter to bilinear, something something to "ultrafast", the encoding to AMD, the bitrate to <2500. As far as I can tell I should be producing a video pixellated enough to post nudity on youtube without being demonetized.
At this point my CPU is running at about 60%, memory and disk about 30-50%.
I click 'go live', and the preview window sprials into infinity, all good. I go into GIMP and do a very basic, small test image using text and a coloured background. I change the colour of the background once a second so I can see when the video stops on one frame for a while. Run for a minute or so, click 'stop streaming' in OBS. Close OBS. When I then load the video recording (not the stream), I get one frame for every 10 seconds or so. Other videos of the same format play as normal. When I check the stream recording, it also has the same frames, with the same difference in timing. It is identical to the recorded video. Part of the log file says
[000:00:05:28.980.428.200][Info] Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 4757/4826 (98.6%)
Which suggests my issue is encoding lag. I do not know what this is or how to fix it, or even if that is the actual problem.
Firstly, how should I be describing this problem when searching for help?
Secondly, anyone have any idea how to fix it?
