Question / Help I need help with my stream...

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draginsla1013

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Hello,
New streamer here, but I am really looking forward to streaming. I understand the basics, but not the entire gist of how to get a smooth stream... Below I can post my Build, and my OBS settings, and I am hoping that someone can help me from there. I usually have a 3-6 second delay on both audio and video, but they are synced up, so the only problem is I don't get the immediate response like i should. So here we go...

Rig (Custom Built):

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 260 Processor, ~3.2GHz (pretty sad I know hope to be upgrading soon to AMD 8150)
Memory: 8192MB RAM (GSkill Sniper's clocked at 1888)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 (1gb)
PSU: 750 w

(not much else you guys need to know I'm sure)


Speed Test Ratings (courtesy of http://testmy.net/):

Download: 12MbpS
Upload: 5.7 MbpS

OBS Settings:

They are the attachments will add other two later, Only allowed 3 attachments.
 

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draginsla1013

New Member
draginsla1013 said:
Hello,
New streamer here, but I am really looking forward to streaming. I understand the basics, but not the entire gist of how to get a smooth stream... Below I can post my Build, and my OBS settings, and I am hoping that someone can help me from there. I usually have a 3-6 second delay on both audio and video, but they are synced up, so the only problem is I don't get the immediate response like i should. So here we go...

Rig (Custom Built):

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 260 Processor, ~3.2GHz (pretty sad I know hope to be upgrading soon to AMD 8150)
Memory: 8192MB RAM (GSkill Sniper's clocked at 1888)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 (1gb)
PSU: 750 w

(not much else you guys need to know I'm sure)


Speed Test Ratings (courtesy of http://testmy.net/):

Download: 12MbpS
Upload: 5.7 MbpS

OBS Settings:

They are the attachments will add other two later, Only allowed 3 attachments.
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Here are the other 2 attachments...
 

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draginsla1013

New Member
dodgepong said:
Moved to Questions and Help. Guides is for posting guides, not asking for help.

Can you post a log of a time you tried to stream? viewtopic.php?f=6&t=97

Also, it looks like you're using an old version of OBS. Make sure you download the latest version, 0.571, and update.
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Here's some of the logs. Not sure if they will help or not.
 

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dodgepong

dodgepong

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First, you are definitely on an old version of OBS. Go to http://obsproject.com/download and get the latest version.

Next your CPU is not strong enough to encode at 60fps at that resolution. Drop to 30fps and downscale your resolution in Video options by at least 1.25.
 
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draginsla1013

New Member
dodgepong said:
First, you are definitely on an old version of OBS. Go to http://obsproject.com/download and get the latest version.

Next your CPU is not strong enough to encode at 60fps at that resolution. Drop to 30fps and downscale your resolution in Video options by at least 1.25.
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Ok done, still have a 3sec delay on both audio and video...
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
What do you mean you are getting a 3-second delay? You mean when streaming, it takes 3 seconds for the video to appear?
 
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draginsla1013

New Member
dodgepong said:
What do you mean you are getting a 3-second delay? You mean when streaming, it takes 3 seconds for the video to appear?
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So when I look at my stream while I'm streaming I'll say 1, then 3 seconds later I hear me saying 1 in my head set. Also I get an echo effect so It'll keep repeating 1 for a while until it fades off into the distance.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Community Helper
That's because you are watching your stream, and then you stream yourself listening to your stream, so that gets streamed out again, which then gets picked up and streamed out again, over and over and over. Mute your stream while you watch it, or watch it on a different computer.

A delay of 3 seconds or more is normal over RTMP.
 
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draginsla1013

New Member
dodgepong said:
That's because you are watching your stream, and then you stream yourself listening to your stream, so that gets streamed out again, which then gets picked up and streamed out again, over and over and over. Mute your stream while you watch it, or watch it on a different computer.

A delay of 3 seconds or more is normal over RTMP.
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So am I all good?
 
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draginsla1013

New Member
Ok so this time I used my phone to my living room while I had my brother sit in front of my stream and do things, It looked great, but when I come back in the room and he looks at me it took 9 seconds for that to happen on my phone. So effectively my viewers would be 9 seconds behind what i am doing.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Community Helper
The phone takes longer because its getting transcoded to HLS. PC viewers will still get 3 seconds or so. There's nothing you can do to reduce that lag.

You should be good to go.
 
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draginsla1013

New Member
dodgepong said:
The phone takes longer because its getting transcoded to HLS. PC viewers will still get 3 seconds or so. There's nothing you can do to reduce that lag.

You should be good to go.
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Alright, thank you very much dodgepong
 
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