Question / Help OBS freezes while audio buffering.

Hi All,
I'm running arch linux and after the last update I did the video preview and recording freezes after a few seconds, it is a really old laptop which I only use for video capture with OBS, now I have no errors in the log but I really need help trying to understand how to fix this: here is what I have in the log:

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Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Dark.qss
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Dark.qss
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/license/gplv2.txt
info: Processor: 2 logical cores
info: Processor: AMD Turion(tm) II Dual-Core Mobile M540
info: Physical Memory: 3701MB Total
info: Kernel Version: Linux 4.10.13-1-ARCH
info: Distribution: "Arch Linux" Unknown
info: Portable mode: false
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
info: OBS 18.0.1-1 (linux)
info: ---------------------------------
info: ---------------------------------
info: audio settings reset:
samples per sec: 44100
speakers: 2
info: OpenGL version: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.0.5

info: ---------------------------------
info: video settings reset:
base resolution: 1366x768
output resolution: 1092x614
downscale filter: Bicubic
fps: 30/1
format: NV12
info: ---------------------------------
libDeckLinkAPI.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
info: No blackmagic support
error: os_dlopen(libnvidia-encode.so.1->libnvidia-encode.so.1): libnvidia-encode.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

error: os_dlopen(/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-libfdk.so->/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-libfdk.so): libfdk-aac.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

warning: Module '/usr//lib/obs-plugins/obs-libfdk.so' not found
info: ---------------------------------
info: Loaded Modules:
info: text-freetype2.so
info: rtmp-services.so
info: obs-x264.so
info: obs-transitions.so
info: obs-outputs.so
info: obs-filters.so
info: obs-ffmpeg.so
info: linux-v4l2.so
info: linux-pulseaudio.so
info: linux-jack.so
info: linux-decklink.so
info: linux-capture.so
info: linux-alsa.so
info: image-source.so
info: frontend-tools.so
info: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
info: All scene data cleared
info: ------------------------------------------------
info: pulse-input: Server name: 'pulseaudio 10.0'
error: pulse-input: An error occurred while getting the source info!
info: pulse-input: Server name: 'pulseaudio 10.0'
error: pulse-input: An error occurred while getting the source info!
info: [Media Source 'elgato']: settings:
input: /tmp/gchd.ts
input_format: (null)
is_looping: no
is_forcing_scale: yes
is_hw_decoding: no
is_clear_on_media_end: no
restart_on_activate: no
info: Switched to scene 'Scene'
info: ------------------------------------------------
info: Loaded scenes:
info: - scene 'Scene':
info: - source: 'elgato' (ffmpeg_source)
info: ------------------------------------------------
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
info: adding 557 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 557 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 580 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 603 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 626 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 650 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 673 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 696 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 719 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 743 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 766 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 789 milliseconds
info: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 812 milliseconds
info: ==== Shutting down ==================================================
info: Switched to scene '(null)'
info: All scene data cleared
info: ------------------------------------------------
info: Freeing OBS context data
info: == Profiler Results =============================
info: run_program_init: 1055.13 ms
info: ┣OBSApp::AppInit: 1.457 ms
info: ┃ ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 1.111 ms
info: ┗OBSApp::OBSInit: 871.363 ms
info: ┣obs_startup: 2.671 ms
info: ┗OBSBasic::OBSInit: 761.536 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::InitBasicConfig: 0.148 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::ResetAudio: 0.269 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::ResetVideo: 412.483 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::InitOBSCallbacks: 0.012 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::InitHotkeys: 0.075 ms
info: ┣obs_load_all_modules: 30.548 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(frontend-tools.so): 1.892 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(image-source.so): 0.007 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(linux-alsa.so): 0.005 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(linux-capture.so): 0.991 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(linux-decklink.so): 0.348 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(linux-jack.so): 0.006 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(linux-pulseaudio.so): 0.008 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(linux-v4l2.so): 0.006 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(obs-ffmpeg.so): 0.429 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(obs-filters.so): 0.032 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(obs-outputs.so): 0.005 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(obs-transitions.so): 0.018 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(obs-x264.so): 0.004 ms
info: ┃ ┣obs_init_module(rtmp-services.so): 0.173 ms
info: ┃ ┗obs_init_module(text-freetype2.so): 0.037 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::ResetOutputs: 0.461 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::CreateHotkeys: 0.733 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::InitService: 0.17 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::InitPrimitives: 0.577 ms
info: ┗OBSBasic::Load: 85.498 ms
info: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=0.071 ms, median=0.403 ms, max=60.301 ms, 99th percentile=6.165 ms, 99.9589% below 25 ms
info: audio_thread(Audio): min=0.001 ms, median=0.095 ms, max=39.401 ms, 99th percentile=0.408 ms
info: obs_video_thread(33.3333 ms): min=3.203 ms, median=26.298 ms, max=99.3 ms, 99th percentile=36.074 ms, 98.0607% below 33.333 ms
info: ┣tick_sources: min=0.001 ms, median=0.019 ms, max=4.826 ms, 99th percentile=0.074 ms
info: ┣render_displays: min=0.046 ms, median=1.907 ms, max=70.44 ms, 99th percentile=8.335 ms
info: ┗output_frame: min=3.101 ms, median=24.172 ms, max=64.703 ms, 99th percentile=30.897 ms
info: ┣gs_context(video->graphics): min=3.099 ms, median=22.798 ms, max=64.698 ms, 99th percentile=29.308 ms
info: ┃ ┣render_video: min=2.867 ms, median=22.631 ms, max=61.731 ms, 99th percentile=29.022 ms
info: ┃ ┃ ┣render_main_texture: min=0.081 ms, median=0.368 ms, max=8.147 ms, 99th percentile=1.831 ms
info: ┃ ┃ ┣render_output_texture: min=0.014 ms, median=0.124 ms, max=61.597 ms, 99th percentile=0.687 ms
info: ┃ ┃ ┣render_convert_texture: min=0.004 ms, median=0.118 ms, max=14.131 ms, 99th percentile=0.559 ms
info: ┃ ┃ ┗stage_output_texture: min=0 ms, median=21.944 ms, max=55.504 ms, 99th percentile=28.115 ms
info: ┃ ┣download_frame: min=0 ms, median=0.034 ms, max=3.442 ms, 99th percentile=0.179 ms
info: ┃ ┗gs_flush: min=0.002 ms, median=0.006 ms, max=1.499 ms, 99th percentile=0.043 ms
info: ┗output_video_data: min=0.43 ms, median=1.235 ms, max=10.449 ms, 99th percentile=3.551 ms
info: video_thread(video): min=0 ms, median=0.012 ms, max=7.83 ms, 99th percentile=0.092 ms
info: =================================================
info: == Profiler Time Between Calls ==================
info: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=25.146 ms, median=25.589 ms, max=87.868 ms, 34.3686% within ±2% of 25 ms (0% lower, 65.6314% higher)
info: obs_video_thread(33.3333 ms): min=15.559 ms, median=33.333 ms, max=99.441 ms, 90.692% within ±2% of 33.333 ms (4.97394% lower, 4.33406% higher)
info: =================================================
info: Number of memory leaks: 0

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