Question / Help obs crashes while broadcasting webm
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FirebirdTN
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Just joined looking for some answers myself, but since I have been playing around with my project for 2 days now, thought I'd throw this out there.
Streaming to icecast using webm (vp9) appears to be broken on the current version of obs. I installed obs v23.2.1 and it works. For me v23.2.1 crashes when I click "stop recording", but seems stable while actively recording.
Note, I do not believe the issue you are experiencing with the current version to be a problem with OBS. I couldn't get it to work with the latest version of ffmpeg either. I had to roll back to ffmpeg 4.1.4 to get it to stream to icecast in webm.
-Alan
Streaming to icecast using webm (vp9) appears to be broken on the current version of obs. I installed obs v23.2.1 and it works. For me v23.2.1 crashes when I click "stop recording", but seems stable while actively recording.
Note, I do not believe the issue you are experiencing with the current version to be a problem with OBS. I couldn't get it to work with the latest version of ffmpeg either. I had to roll back to ffmpeg 4.1.4 to get it to stream to icecast in webm.
-Alan
FirebirdTN
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Just thought I'd add a little more info here since I finally got this to work the way I want it to...
I don't know what kind of hardware you have, but even though VP9 works in v23.2.1 it takes so much "horsepower" that you have to have an insanely fast machine to encode in vp9 in realtime at any usable resolution.
Unless you have the hardware, its best to stick with VP8. But you will run into issues there because it won't work either without some tweaking.
I've posted a work-around to get vp8 encoding for webm for the purposes of streaming video to icecast in another thread. Just search my posts.
Good luck, and happy streaming.
-Alan
I don't know what kind of hardware you have, but even though VP9 works in v23.2.1 it takes so much "horsepower" that you have to have an insanely fast machine to encode in vp9 in realtime at any usable resolution.
Unless you have the hardware, its best to stick with VP8. But you will run into issues there because it won't work either without some tweaking.
I've posted a work-around to get vp8 encoding for webm for the purposes of streaming video to icecast in another thread. Just search my posts.
Good luck, and happy streaming.
-Alan
Tormy
Member
Can you please post here the link to that post?
Because I'm getting really angry with OBS and its crashes, right on the same reasons of this topic.