Question / Help OBS Erratic Upload Speed and dropped frames.

[turdisthewurd]

Greetings,
I've recently put together a 2 pc setup and I'm past the point of pulling my hair out dealing with the audio.
The only issue I'm running into now is that my upload speed is erratic while streaming to twitch.
I have it set to 3500 bitrate but It goes way above and below that. It has also been dropping frames like crazy.
I don't believe this to be an internet issue as it works fine on my main gaming pc.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[Brian laspe]

I'm waiting on @Boildown to respond on my thread...having the same issues

 

[Boildown]

15:09:37.354: ==== Streaming Start ===============================================
15:10:21.371: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] User stopped the stream
15:10:21.371: Output 'adv_stream': stopping
15:10:21.371: Output 'adv_stream': Total frames output: 2155 (2609 attempted)
15:10:21.371: Output 'adv_stream': Total drawn frames: 2688
15:10:21.371: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 454 (17.4%)
15:10:21.372: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Freeing 1 remaining packets
15:10:21.376: ==== Streaming Stop ================================================

OBS disagrees that you can stream at that bitrate, as indicated by the 17.4% dropped frame percentage.

Do the steps here: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/dropped-frames-disconnecting-lag-read-this-first.8870 and post the TwitchTest results.

As an aside, you should try encoding with x264 instead of NVEnc for the stream, and only use NVEnc for the recording. Do the recording at something like 20000kbps (if not more). The stream will probably have to be lowered depending on what the TwitchTest results say.

Also, if you record to a mp4 file, you'll be back here one day asking how you can recover your awesome recording when OBS crashed and corrupted the file. There won't be a solution. Record to flv or mkv instead and prevent this future tragedy from ever occurring! :P

 

[AxelOG]

What is your upload speed? Generally the rule is to keep it the bitrate at 50%-70% of your upload speed. Sometimes it seems like providers like comcast cut corners on upload speeds because a large majority of the people using the internet don't use upload speeds often so they don't really care as much about maintaining that. (not sure if thats the true or full reason for this but I know it does make a difference)

But unless you have a data cap or live in a rural area then you may just be experiencing some issues. Just do a few rapid speed tests right after each other to see if it may just be some random spikes.