Question / Help Is there much more lag when recording to hard drive while streaming to twitch at the same time?

[randmanq]

For some reason twitch has muted parts in a few of my past broadcast VODs, even though no music is being played at ALL. Just talking. I need my videos for my youtube channel, and random parts in my videos being muted for no reason really makes it difficult.

I know I can just record it with OBS while I also stream, but does this slow my game down and effect stream quality? My pc isn't high end at all.

I can stream with decent quality without any dropped frames and I would like the recordings to look the same.

Is clicking that box in OBS that says save to file any different than hitting the record key, or is one faster than the other?

If I choose the save to file option, does that mean it's constantly recording by itself, or how does it save the file upon exit if it's not constantly recording?

I also have bandicam to record if that would be less demanding to record while obs streams.

Thank you!

 

[randmanq]

I don't have CBR enabled in OBS, would something like that or a different option in OBS be responsible for twitch muting my VODs when no music or anything was played?

 

[jdm12983]

As for recording: it records and saves the file at the same time you stream. Which I'm not sure if it would slow down your computer or not. Best idea might be to test it out.

Just keep in mind that you will want to have a decent amount of hard drive space if you tend to record a whole lot. Which the size of the video overall will be determined by your "Max Bitrate" setting under "Encoding". However unless you have a really high bitrate setting OBS files overall aren't too big.

When I stream I run at a 3500 Max Bitrate with CBR checked and I'm recording to hard drive and streaming at the same time - when it comes to file size I usually can record 2 hours and only be about a 3 to 3.5GB file. Kind of large but not really bad for a video file.

As for CBR, I believe you have to have the enabled for Twitch streaming - not sure though. At the very least I know it's highly recommended to use it because it makes the stream go more smoothly and less likely to lag/have issues.

 

[randmanq]

I've read that the "save to file" option records and/or saves the stream to a remote server, that "save to file" doesn't save locally on my machine. And that the hotkeys to turn on and off recording writes and encodes to my hard drive, opposed to the save to file option which doesn't save and record locally. Where does it record the stream to?

My bitrate is 1700, making that higher increases the file size?

 

[jdm12983]

OK, might have said some things wrong at first.

When the "Mode" for "Broadcast Settings" is set to "Live Stream" towards the bottom there is a box you can check to choose to "Automatically save stream to file" and you can set a path if you check the box. Having that checked and a file patch set will live stream to what ever service you are using and will also save a copy onto your computer.

And yes, increasing the Maxbit rate at any amount will be larger file size - larger bit rate larger file size in the end.