Question / Help Help with blurry stream and freezing every few seconds

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antebante

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So I'm fairly new to OBS, and don't know much about the settings. I tried read on guides etc on which settings to use, but it doesn't seem to get any better. My stream never freezes when I'm lowering my bitrate to around 1200-1500, but when I go over 2000 it starts freezing every few seconds. I have around 80-90 mbit/s down/upload.

Logs: http://pastebin.com/cTYaJv84
 
After analysis of your log file:
Possible slow server

The server you are streaming to (rtmp://live-arn.twitch.tv/app) took 957 ms to connect. This may mean your connection or the server is slow, or the server is far away from you. If you are using twitch.tv, you may want to try using JTVPing to find an optimal server.

Bad resolution / FPS / bitrate combination

The combination of settings you are using will likely lead to a low quality stream with artifacting and other problems. Consider either raising your bitrate or lowering your resolution / FPS (qval: 0.026)
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Thing is, I did download that program and tested which server I should stream to, and the server I was streaming to, actually said under 50 ping even, that's why it's confusing me.
Edit: Tested the program again, 23 ms is what I get to the nearest server which streaming to.

The resolution / fps / bitrate combination I don't really know what to use. I tried to use 1920x1080 with downscale, 1280x720 (which I'm playing with in-game) but still the same. I even lowered my fps to 30 and still the same.
 
I did but it didn't show anything in Twitch when I was streaming so I didn't bother use it anymore. I tested with lower res, fps and bitrate and the quality now actually looks ok.But logfile still says I'm having delay with server, bad resolution/fps/bitrate combination.
 
Atm I'm only on 1,8 mbit/s upload. But in the logfiles I attached in the first post, I was on 90 mbit/s upload, where it said I had 950 ms ping.
 
Radzaquiel said:
Well...what's your upload speed ? (go to speedtest.net to test)
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OP already stated he has "I have around 80-90 mbit/s down/upload."
@antebante you should honestly try a different ingest server. try a few even if their ping is higher. the jitter on the program matters more than the ping. even with 100ms ping to the ingest as long as your stream is getting to it, you should be fine. make sense?

bitrate is the only thing that really affects the streaming service, your CPU times look fine for 720@50fps so I ouwld baseline at 3000bitrate and even try hitbox to see if that lags as well.

This issue might be with your ISP as they are known to limit bandwidth to twitch. or it could be twitch itself and is why you need to try different ingests.
 
dping said:
OP already stated he has "I have around 80-90 mbit/s down/upload."
@antebante you should honestly try a different ingest server. try a few even if their ping is higher. the jitter on the program matters more than the ping. even with 100ms ping to the ingest as long as your stream is getting to it, you should be fine. make sense?

bitrate is the only thing that really affects the streaming service, your CPU times look fine for 720@50fps so I ouwld baseline at 3000bitrate and even try hitbox to see if that lags as well.

This issue might be with your ISP as they are known to limit bandwidth to twitch. or it could be twitch itself and is why you need to try different ingests.
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Alright so. I have around 5-15 ms atm (1,8 mbit/s upload) jitter thing, idk what it is, to around 6 different servers. Including the one I'm streaming to now. So I should just try different ones and see if it goes better?

About the bitrate. I couldn't even raise it above 1700-1800 before it started buffering over and over.
 
antebante said:
My upload speed at the moment is 1,8 mbit/s.

And this is how the Ingest Latency Checker looks for me. I'm streaming to EU Stockholm.
http://gyazo.com/b64630690df316b95c0bb79017a5512e
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you want to use 80% of your max upload, now tye max so 1440 or 1500bitrate max. And at that upload you want to downscale to 540p @30fps. You can change your preset to faster at this resolution if you like to compensate for the lower bitrate but its not going to look exellent.
 
dping said:
you want to use 80% of your max upload, now tye max so 1440 or 1500bitrate max. And at that upload you want to downscale to 540p @30fps. You can change your preset to faster at this resolution if you like to compensate for the lower bitrate but its not going to look exellent.
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Yeah I've tried to stream earlier and the quality is meh. But in a week or so I'll be able to test with 90/90 again and see if it works any better, because when I tried last week I couldn't even go above 2000 bitrate with 720p and stream freezing.
 
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