Question / Help OBS keeps reconnecting on me.

[GestorterEngel]

So I didn't have this problem before the last update to OBS, but now I'm constantly having a problem with OBS disconnecting and reconnecting to Twitch. It happens randomly and when it does it happens about 4-5 times within a 20 minutes interval. Anyone have any ideas on what the problem is?

 

[Krazy]

Read through this thread for network troubleshooting: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8870

 

[GestorterEngel]

It's not a framerate problem, I've never had this before this last update, and I can use Xsplit fine with no problems, I just prefer using OBS over it.

 

[Krazy]

...that thread is not about framerate issues, it's about network/disconnection issues

 

[GestorterEngel]

****Dropped frames/disconnecting/lag? Read this first!****

Dropped frames, whatever it was. Either way, I'm just simply losing connection and reconnecting, but it's not due to anything that's listed on that page as I've already stated this problem hasn't occurred before the latest patch, and that I do not have this problem streaming with other applications such as XSplit. I have already dropped my bitrate to see if it helped any, and it doesn't. The server I have selected is the closest one to me. I'm not streaming over Wireless. It's not antivirus/firewall related. Speed tests are fine, as they've always been. My router is brand new so it's not that. Etc etc.

 

[Krazy]

The only other thing I can suggest is double check hotkeys to make sure you aren't hitting stop streaming by mistake. Can we see a regular log file?

 

[GestorterEngel]

Not that either. :(

 

[Krazy]

Ok well something is definitely wrong with your connection. It seems pretty unstable looking at the logs.

 

[GestorterEngel]

How come this works fine using other programs, and has worked fine before this patch then? I noticed the logs says I may have too many sources and should use them as global sources instead. Does this matter? I didn't think the amount of sources I have would be a problem with connection in OBS.

Also, I don't understand how global sources work. I added a few and it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

 

[Krazy]

It can if scene changes are taking to long, meaning there's nothing to actually encode/send. After you've added something to global sources, you need to add that global source to your scene. Right click sources box, mouseover global sources, and the ones you've made should be there.

 

[GestorterEngel]

What exactly is the difference between adding it from global sources, just straight from scene to sources? Will doing it from there instead of scenes keep it from timing my OBS out and reconnecting? I wouldn't think it would be a scene change problem, today when it happened I was playing Smite, and I only have 1 3 scenes in my source for Smite. Webcam, Text, and Game Capture.

 

[Lain]

Global sources persist through scene changes, and do not shut down until the stream stops. When you switch a scene, it shuts down all sources in the previous scene, and starts up all sources in a new scene. When you use a global source, it starts it up only once, and only shuts it down when the stream goes off, so it's usually only used for video devices, to prevent scene switching lag issues.

 

[GestorterEngel]

So it seems like my problem is just OBS lagging out from scene changes with my camera and disconnecting me, not sure how that is possible. But I changed everything over to global source and I haven't had any problems so far, been streaming for the past 3 1/2 hours. I'll text more tomorrow and see if this fully fixes it.