Question / Help I'm having trouble streaming, error message pops up but my drivers are up to date

[PasqualaBear13]

Whenever I click start streaming the error message pops up which says " Starting output failed. Please check the logs for details. Note: if you are using the NVENC or AMD encoders, make sure your video drivers are up to date." I am using an NVIDIA graphics card but I have triple checked and all my drivers that I can see are up to date. I've tried looking at the log and it makes no sense to me so I'm really hoping someone on here will be able to help me out, Log attached.

 

[R1CH]

Use a different encoder in settings / output.

 

[Narcogen]

Are you sending to a custom RTMP server?

 

[PasqualaBear13]

Are you sending to a custom RTMP server?

Whats that?

 

[PasqualaBear13]

Use a different encoder in settings / output.

The other option is just x264 but wont that mean a lower quality?

 

[Harold]

Given you're on a 6-series card, x264 will almost certainly offer far better picture quality, especially since you're not even getting the encoder to start when you have nvenc selected.

 

[PasqualaBear13]

Given you're on a 6-series card, x264 will almost certainly offer far better picture quality, especially since you're not even getting the encoder to start when you have nvenc selected.

Okay, so If I use x264 Im still going to get the same quality. Will it be any slower or will it be the same speed cause I can still record through the nvenc I just can't stream with it. Also at the bottom of the message it says people should stop saving directly to mp4, what would you suggest?

 

[Harold]

You'll actually get better picture quality out of x264 vs 6-series GTX nvenc. It's not until 9-series GTX cards that nvenc gets close to even the picture quality of the worst preset of x264.

As for what to save to instead of mp4.

Record to FLV or MKV. If you record to MP4 and the recording is interrupted, the file will be corrupted and unrecoverable. If you require MP4 files for some other purpose like editing, remux them afterwards by selecting File > Remux Recordings in the main OBS Studio window.

 

[PasqualaBear13]

You'll actually get better picture quality out of x264 vs 6-series GTX nvenc. It's not until 9-series GTX cards that nvenc gets close to even the picture quality of the worst preset of x264.

As for what to save to instead of mp4.

Thanks for all the help and tips, I've changed my encoder settings to x264 and my output setting to flv, my next question is after changing it to x264 it comes up with another menu and one of the options is CPU Usage Preset (higher = less CPU) obviously I want the best quality footage but I don't want it to slow down my pc so which would be the best setting?

 

[Narcogen]

Start with veryfast. If that works for you without encoding overload and looks OK to you, stay there. If you get overload, go to faster presets until you don't.