Bug Report Never got this before (Video stutter every few secs)

[Utsuroo]

Hello been using this program for a while and it's great. 1 thing though. I was reading other threads and to increase your in-game fps you have to change to the closest server. I changed from Global loading service to the NY server, because I live in NY. A viewer had said that my stream was lagging every few secs maybe about every 10 seconds a huge chop would happen then continue to go back to normal then repeat.. Heres my log.





Open Broadcaster Software v0.461a - 32bit (´・ω・｀)
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CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Speed: 2400MHz
Physical Memory: 4093MB Total, 2600MB Free
stepping id: 11, model 15, family 6, type 0, extmodel 0, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 4, total cores 4
Windows Version: 6.2 Build 9200
Aero is Enabled
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Adapter 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 919994368
Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 1877590016
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Adapter 2
Video Adapter: Microsoft Basic Render Driver
Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 0
Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 268435456
=====Stream Start=====================================================================
Multithreaded optimizations: On
Base resolution: 1600x900
Output resolution: 1064x600
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Loading up D3D10...
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Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (High Definition Audio Device)
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Audio Encoding: AAC
bitrate: 128
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Using Monitor Capture
Using text output
Using bitmap image
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Video Encoding: x264
fps: 25
width: 1064, height: 600
preset: ultrafast
CBR: no
max bitrate: 2500
buffer size: 2000
quality: 5
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Warning -- graphics.MeasureString failed: 2
Warning -- TextSource::UpdateTexture: bad texture sizes apparently, very strange
Using text output
Total frames rendered: 12033, number of frames that lagged: 0 (0.00%) (it's okay for some frames to lag)
=====Stream End=======================================================================

Profiler results:

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frame - [100%] [avg time: 9.477 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 91.9%] [unaccounted: 8.06%]
| scene->Preprocess - [4.33%] [avg time: 0.41 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
| video encoding and uploading - [87.6%] [avg time: 8.303 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1] [children: 87.3%] [unaccounted: 0.264%]
| | CopyResource - [51.3%] [avg time: 4.859 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | conversion to 4:2:0 - [0.127%] [avg time: 0.012 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | call to encoder - [35.9%] [avg time: 3.403 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
| | sending stuff out - [0.0422%] [avg time: 0.004 ms] [avg calls per frame: 0]
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[micechal]

And does it happen only with this Twitch server? Maybe they're having problems. You can use JTVPing to check out which server is best for you.

 

[Utsuroo]

Well, I originally had the Global Loading it was working fine until someone mentioned choosing a server closer to you is better for FPS wise. They said to not use Global Loading.



Edit: I just tried the JTVPing and the NY server has about 100 ms while the Virginia one's have about 30ms. Im gonna try the the Ashburn,VA (Secondary) considering thats the lowest ms of them all.

 

[Krazy]

Yeah, the ashburn server is generally really solid

 

[micechal]

There is also a possibility that it could be your viewers issue. Does the VOD look as it's supposed to?

 

[Utsuroo]

No, I even saw that the chop happened while I was monitoring my stream's performance on my laptop.

 

[Viltsu]

What's your upload speed?

 

[Utsuroo]

5.01.

 

[AndehX]

ive been getting this issue too while streaming at 60fps, every couple of second my stream would slow down/stutter, then go back to normal. never changed anything in obs...

 

[cpujockey]

try changing your quality rate to 8. that should help.

 

[Dajova]

One thing i noticed, is that you should NEVER use anything lesser than "veryfast" present. Also, try to disable aero when streaming (i noticed that aero actually takes quite a chunk of your overall performance)...

 

[Utsuroo]

I was using ultra-fast at one point. I do have aero disabled (which previously it wouldn't do anything considering I have Windows 8 )