Question / Help Is there an upper limit for X264 CPU usage during live streaming?

macobs

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I do not have a log to upload right now because I keep my encode low to avoid this error.

My MBP usually starts dropping frames and screaming about encoding problems on X264 encoding after reaching about 35% CPU usage. The only thing I change to fix these dropped frames is lowering the bit rate. Usually I start at 6000 Kbps 1920x1080 resolution and then drop the bit rate down to about 5500-5000 to fix things.

Is that normal? Should I be able to achieve better CPU utilization? If you really would like to see a log I can try making a test run, but I wanted to ask here first if this sounds like business as usual before setting everything up again.
 
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