How to control OBS output bandwidth

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Leifo

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I have an outdoor videocamera connected to Youtube. The camera is important for a number of people.
  • The camera is Reolink.
  • I use OBS for coding toYoutube.
  • My internet account is limited to 10 Mb/s.

The stream from my camera is set to 720P.
The camera's settings page show that the bandwidth from the camera is 3072 Mb/s

The OBS software output varies between 9 and 11 Mb/s. This bandwidth is more than my ISP guarantees.

The result is that Youtube warns of low bandwidth and finally shuts down the streaming channel.

Why does the data stream bandwidth increase from 3Mb/s to 10 Mb/s when the stream is encoded in OBS?

It seems that the bandwidth out of OBS is only insignificantly affected if I change the bandwidth from the camera.
How can I reduce output bandwidth from OBS to Youtube?
 
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Leifo

New Member
Leifo said:
I have an outdoor videocamera connected to Youtube. The camera is important for a number of people.
  • The camera is Reolink.
  • I use OBS for coding toYoutube.
  • My internet account is limited to 10 Mb/s.

The stream from my camera is set to 720P.
The camera's settings page show that the bandwidth from the camera is 3072 Mb/s

The OBS software output varies between 9 and 11 Mb/s. This bandwidth is more than my ISP guarantees.

The result is that Youtube warns of low bandwidth and finally shuts down the streaming channel.

Why does the data stream bandwidth increase from 3Mb/s to 10 Mb/s when the stream is encoded in OBS?

It seems that the bandwidth out of OBS is only insignificantly affected if I change the bandwidth from the camera.
How can I reduce output bandwidth from OBS to Youtube?
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Correction: The output from the camera is 3 Mb/s (3,072 Mbs)
 
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konsolenritter

Active Member
The output from the camera doesn't play a role for obs'es output to YT. As PaiSand already you should step a bit into OBS. Then you'll learn how to control the output bandwidth in the encoder settings.

While having a 10mbps account you shouldn't stream more than 5 or 6 mbps to youtube. For 720p and few movement in the video content even 2 to 3 mbps should do well.
 
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Leifo

New Member
PaiSand said:
You should start here:
obsproject.com

OBS Studio Quickstart

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio
obsproject.com obsproject.com
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Many thanks. This was all I needed.

When I first installed the camera, I used the Autoconfiguration. But later I found that the camera default resolution, set in the camera, was far too high. But I didn't realize that I should run Autofiguration again to adjust the output resolution.

Leif O
 
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