Question / Help Just noticed drastic variance in my files size, data rate, and bite rate...

[Zaen]

...with 0 alteration to the software settings.

I've been recording videos for the past week, some about 20 minutes, some just over an hour, with the settings I've been using. I'm not streaming. And till now, I've had no issues.

Today while making a video, I had to cut into multiple parts and splice them together because I kept getting encoding overload notices. Again, no change to settings.

I started noticing that the file was taking forever to upload to YT, and so I went and compared the file sizes. I saw something pretty shocking.

All of these files are perfectly acceptable quality, but some are much higher in size than the others, and I have to assume that if the file size wasn't so large, and whatever is making it so large wasn't going on in the background, I would not having the encoding overload problem I had today.

Any help with this would be great.

 

[Sapiens]

Without knowing your settings it's impossible to say whether this is normal or not. If you're using VBR (for example the recording quality presets) then variation in file size is expected, since the bitrate changes to whatever is needed to maintain video quality. Low movement will use a lower bitrate, high movement will use a high bitrate.

 

[Zaen]

That makes sense. Which settings should I share if I want to decrease the chances of this encoding overload happening, which I don't understand how I could have had no problems for a week recording and then now they occur when I'm doing less for a lesser amount of time.

The file size I can deal with. Once I upload it to YT it doesn't matter how big it is to me. I just can't be interrupted by encoding problems.

I turned it down from 30 FPS to 25 but have yet to test it. My screen res is 1600 by 900 but the output video is 1280 by 720. That's what it has been, for a week of good recordings. I changed the processing priority to higher, but have yet to test that.

Just thought I would get some input. If there is any other aspect of the settings you would know, let me know and I'll be back with them.

 

[Sapiens]

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/please-post-a-log-with-your-issue-heres-how.23074/

 

[Zaen]

http://pastebin.com/fVpLWk17

I know this computer isn't amazing, but I'm not using it to do anything but do RPG Maker tutorials, occasionally opening photoshop. I don't expect it to stream high end video games. And for my purposes, it was working fine, just to reiterate.

 

[Zaen]

So, I have solved the problem.

I tried turning the resolution down super low (like less than 800 by whatever) just to see what would happen. I found that, the videos didn't care what video settings I put in. They continued to record at 1200 by whatever it was. So I started checking processes. I noticed there were two instances of the program running.

Somehow, just closing one would not help. After trying to record some video, failing on the overloaded encode, and trying again, there would be two instances opened again.

I decided to uninstall the program and all user settings. I reinstalled, updated to 0.16.6 or whatever it is that is the latest update, and everything works exactly how it used to.

It was either that there were always two instances opened that were bogging each other down or it was that changing the settings to match my emulator messed things up or some mixture of the two, but... an uninstall and reinstall actually worked.