Question / Help Intermittent black screen on Twitch playback

[Fenric]

Hello.

I'm noticing when I watch my past broadcasts that roughly every 30 minutes or so, the screen goes black for maybe 2 or 3 seconds then plays normally again. When this happens, the timer on the video skips or jumps ahead as well.

I've only been streaming Borderlands 1 so cannot compare it with other games.

The system is:
i5 3570k stock settings
AMD Radeon HD 7970
8gb RAM

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
OBS v0.637b 64 bit

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/92bf14be36a8f2ab0805

I didn't notice any dropped frames or high cpu usage warnings in OBS for this test.

Any ideas?

 

[qhgf]

Twitch past broadcasts are saved and cataloged every 30 mins. When you watch a past broadcast you are loading 30 min videos in increments. The few seconds when it switches between videos is your black screen or jumping.

 

[Krazy]

Yep, that is the most likely scenario. To test for sure, save a copy of your broadcast to your local hard drive while you are streaming. You can do this in settings>broadcast settings and checking "Automatically save stream to file" and then choose a filepath and filename.