Question / Help My stream won't actually start on OBS Studio. It's also apparently encoding 4.2 billion frames???

[MapleBacon]

https://gist.github.com/666d043245862091208e219f0ecee058

So basically, I use OBS Classic to stream some games on Youtube/Twitch. I decided, yesterday, to switch over to OBS Studio, since i know it's getting more support and more features- plus, scrolling text looks SO much better with more options to make it attractive in OBS Studio.

Anyway, the problem I'm running into is that, after setting up OBS Studio, I click "Go live", and it pings the broadcast server, in this case, restream.io. I know that the restream server is being pinged, because the status icons switch from "Offline" to "Connecting" on the restream website, for just a brief moment, but the stream itself never goes live.

Using the same stream key and the same stream URL settings, OBS Classic still goes live. OBS Studio does not. I've exhausted every single possible solution that I can think of and I can't figure out why OBS Classic would be able to stream and OBS Studio would not be able to.

The icon at the bottom says "192kbps" and the light turns green for around 1 second. Then, the icon turns grey, says 0kbps, no matter how long i let it sit there. I click stop stream, and OBS won't ever actually STOP streaming, I usually have to close OBS by ending it in task manager.

Also, weird thing, at the bottom of the log, there's this line. What in the world could this be?

07:46:07.612: Output 'adv_stream': Total encoded frames: 4294966591

 

[Harold]

The Mediafoundation AMD encoder is no longer supported.

 

[MapleBacon]

Then... why is it still there? That's weird.

 

[MapleBacon]

Anyway, that seems to have been the issue, I ran a bandwidth test on twitch, everything seems to be stable and the issue I was having with my notifications seems to be totally alleviated by streaming with OBS Studio instead of OBS Classic.

Despite the fact that I'm running on Windows 10 and use an AMD graphics card, I don't seem to have the issue that was plaguing some people, which I'm very lucky about.

Thank you so much, Harold, for letting me know that the Mediafoundation encoder is no longer supported.

I will say though, if the encoder isn't supported and won't actually let my stream broadcast, what reason could it possibly have for still being included in the package?

 

[Osiris]

To avoid breaking people's settings. It would only appear if you were actually using it, as soon as you switched to another encoder it would no longer be in the list.