Question / Help not streaming, having cpu usage/fps drop

[Kelly Lincoln]

LOG FILE; https://obsproject.com/logs/pb6bbTRb91b3Cs_6

as the subject says obs seems to be running on its own:

as you can see, I'm neither streaming nor recording to disk. This is also preventing me from making changes in settings, as OBS believes I am streaming. is this due to the ndi plugin? this is also causing significant lag. so significant that I cannot stream due to dropped frames up to 76% and encoding errors:

 

[Narcogen]

The 0:00 timers for both LIVE and REC mean you are neither streaming or recording.

However, you have the NDI plugin installed, and this is encoding if output is on in the Tools > NDI Output menus. Which it is. You have your preview and main outputs on in NDI:

19:50:56.298: [obs-ndi] NDI library initialized successfully (NDI SDK APPLE 11:08:55 Apr 1 2019 3.8.0)
19:50:56.302: [obs-ndi] starting NDI main output with name 'OBS'
19:50:56.306: [obs-ndi] 'OBS': ndi output started
19:50:56.306: [obs-ndi] starting NDI preview output with name 'OBS Preview'
19:50:56.307: [obs-ndi] 'OBS Preview': ndi output started

Your NDI preview and main outputs are overloading your encoder:

20:00:37.069: [obs-ndi] stopping NDI preview output
20:00:37.069: Output 'NDI Preview Output': stopping
20:00:37.069: Output 'NDI Preview Output': Total frames output: 9252
20:00:37.069: Output 'NDI Preview Output': Total drawn frames: 9275 (17421 attempted)
20:00:37.069: Output 'NDI Preview Output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 8146 (46.8%)
20:00:37.094: [obs-ndi] stopping NDI main output
20:00:37.094: Output 'NDI Main Output': stopping
20:00:37.094: Output 'NDI Main Output': Total frames output: 17414
20:00:37.094: Output 'NDI Main Output': Total drawn frames: 9276 (17423 attempted)
20:00:37.094: Output 'NDI Main Output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 8147 (46.8%)
20:00:37.094: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 83/17414 (0.5%)

NDI does not respect scaling, so despite the fact that you've selected 720p as your output resolution, your NDI plugin is attempting to output your preview and main windows both at 1080p and it can't do it. You are significantly overloading your machine.

Also, during the one streaming session you ran, you have a ludicrously high bitrate set and your network connection could not keep up:

19:57:06.731: Output 'adv_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 1800 (58.3%)
19:57:06.731: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 2492 (81.9%)

Your bitrate for streaming has an extra zero in it, I suspect:

9:55:23.951: [x264 encoder: 'streaming_h264'] preset: superfast
19:55:23.951: [x264 encoder: 'streaming_h264'] profile: high
19:55:23.951: [x264 encoder: 'streaming_h264'] tune: film
19:55:23.951: [x264 encoder: 'streaming_h264'] settings:
19:55:23.951: rate_control: CBR
19:55:23.951: bitrate: 40000
19:55:23.951: buffer size: 30000