Bug Report OBS crashes while trying to preview stream

[Chindogg]

Hello,

I'm trying to set everything up (with and without a mic) according to Skyride's guides and every time I try to preview stream I get this error:

Any ideas?

 

[micechal]

Maybe your sound card is incompatible. You could try to download the newest drivers for it. Do you have any secondary audio input selected in OBS? You could also try changing your default audio playback device to something other (if you have a choice :P).

 

[Lain]

This is a current bug with some sound output devices. Some devices apparently don't use proper timing data in their device drivers. It's a $&#"ing nightmare for me.

 

[Lain]

I'll be attempting to implement a fix for this hopefully soon

 

[Sylvex]

I get this as well, was working perfectly fine in 0.461a (and still does). When I try to use 0.466a it crashes with that error.

 

[Lain]

These device drivers never cease to amaze me in their horribleness. Why microsoft even bothered attempting to add a QPC timestamp output reference pointer to IAudioCaptureClient::GetBuffer is absolutely beyond me. No g** d*** manufacturers seem to want to use it to the proper specification. Absolute waste of time, and now I have to find yet another workaround to this. Thank you, writers of audio drivers, for making my life a living hell.

Er, apologies for the rant there. Just needed to get it off my chest I suppose

 

[Lain]

Please try 0.467a test 1.

 

[Voxletum]

Jim What's your favorite audio driver/gives you the least problems?

 

[Lain]

Capturing the windows desktop gives me the least problems. But I don't rely on any timestamping in 0.467a so it shouldn't matter anymore, I just need others to test it. I completely got rid of having to rely on anything but my own implementation. Relying on drivers to supply valid timestamps is like relying on a monkey to build a house.

 

[chasessc]

Jim,

I had the same issue as Chindogg and Sylvex when using Virtual Audio Cable as my primary output device. Chiming in to confirm that the 0.467a 64-bit build resolved the issue for me (Windows 7 x64) in preview and stream, using desktop and dxtory inputs. Thanks for the quick fix, even if it was just to ignore the monkeys :lol: