Question / Help Is it twitch or is it me?!

[Patrick90]

Hey guys,

My Build including Settings and internet speed bla bla.

intel i2500k (turbo enabled)
8gb am
GTX 560ti
1920x1080 in ALL Games native and ingame

Virgin Media UK (120mb)
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3591538251

I have my obs settings as follows( I think these are the only ones that matter);
Downscale to 1280x720
60 FPS
Minimizing Network Impact(ON)
3500/3500 CBR etc



THE PROBLEM:

When I and/or anyone else watches my stream it is constantly hanging and/or playing catch up like its buffering? But its lower quality than a lot of oher streams; also when watching the broadcast back its 100% fine.

Any ideas?

 

[NotMeAgain]

Lower your rates to ~2100kb, this is more than sufficient for 720p.

You're essentially forcing your viewers to buffer 3500kb (3.5mb) of information before the video plays, and most peoples lines can't pull it down quick enough.

Quality is a subjective thing, and with h264 encoding you need a higher bit-rate to cope with fast paced action without pixellation/smears, higher bitrate means more information to download to display a frame.

Drop the frame rate to 30, bitrate down to 2100 and you should see a marked improvement in quality and responsiveness, as your bitrate is now going towards 1/2 as many frames (That's how I see it!).

Source:
I've done just that over the last 2 days.

 

[Patrick90]

Lower your rates to ~2100kb, this is more than sufficient for 720p.

You're essentially forcing your viewers to buffer 3500kb (3.5mb) of information before the video plays, and most peoples lines can't pull it down quick enough.

Quality is a subjective thing, and with h264 encoding you need a higher bit-rate to cope with fast paced action without pixellation/smears, higher bitrate means more information to download to display a frame.

Drop the frame rate to 30, bitrate down to 2100 and you should see a marked improvement in quality and responsiveness, as your bitrate is now going towards 1/2 as many frames (That's how I see it!).

Source:
I've done just that over the last 2 days.

I will try and let you know ! :D

 

[Boildown]

Hey, what's up? I personally do 3000 bitrate and 2000 buffer; having a buffer smaller than the bitrate keeps the bitrate more consistent at the cost of quality, but it costs less quality than straight up reducing the bitrate. I use 40 FPS for streaming, but I've had well over a year to tweak by settings. When starting out, you want to establish a baseline of settings that just work, and for that, 30 fps is the best choice.

You should also post an OBS log file so we can verify that its the viewer's download limitations that's the problem and not your computer.

 

[Patrick90]

Hey, what's up? I personally do 3000 bitrate and 2000 buffer; having a buffer smaller than the bitrate keeps the bitrate more consistent at the cost of quality, but it costs less quality than straight up reducing the bitrate. I use 40 FPS for streaming, but I've had well over a year to tweak by settings. When starting out, you want to establish a baseline of settings that just work, and for that, 30 fps is the best choice.

You should also post an OBS log file so we can verify that its the viewer's download limitations that's the problem and not your computer.

Good idea i'll do this later :)

 

[vbdkv]

You're essentially forcing your viewers to buffer 3500kb (3.5mb) of information before the video plays, and most peoples lines can't pull it down quick enough.

Hmm last time I checked OBS was using kilobits, so that would mean 3500kbps = 437.5 kB == 0.43MB/s. Even a lowly 5mbit connection should be able to handle that just fine and dandy. Twitch is just a massive mess of slow.