Question / Help Is it possible to lower settigs even further?

Souledge

New Member
I've been trying to restream a stream from my home network to a remote server using nginx to a mobile carrier network for personal use.
Due to that mobile carrier network's data cap limitations, I'm looking to lower the audio quality beyond 64kbps. I've downloaded an old version of OBS which still has 32 kbps as an option, and the audio quality is more than fine on my mobile.

I know this isn't a common thing people use OBS for, but I was wondering if there is any way I can lower this even further until I find the audio is in inaudible? I've tried changing the values in the INI file, but the stream keeps the minimum of 64/32.

I tried using flash media live encoder to stream to nginx, which has the option to go even lower than 10kbps, but that doesn't seem to work. Eventhough the encoder says it's connected, no upload is monitored on my network, nor does vlc play anything from the server.
I like OBS way better anyway, so I was wondering if I can force similar settings in it.
 

koala

Active Member
The container format has some overhead data, so you cannot go below a minimum bandwidth. There would simply be no space to transfer actual payload.
 

Souledge

New Member
So is it a format thing that limits it? Seeing how Flash media live encoder does have the option to go as low as 18 kbps 11k hz, I assume this should be a possibility with OBS as well?
Problem with that one is that I can't get audio working at all using manycam as a screen & audio capture device. Video works fine altho, I notice less quality at same bitrate.
 
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