hamiltonfan1705
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Yesterday I was doing a livestream of an rFactor race, which I'd been planning for weeks. All my tests during the weekend went fine without an issue, and the stream was fine for the first hour but then around 1hr 10mins into the stream, it started buffering and lagging a lot, which made people turn off and then 30 minutes later, the stream crashed completely (it said reconnecting but couldn't reconnect) and I had to end it. I had no different amount of viewers to my tests, and I was doing nothing differently either. YouTube did keep saying "We are not receiving video at a fast enough rate, users may experience buffering" but it had over the course of the weekend but there was no buffering. When I looked at the log in Log Analyser, here is what it said;
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Excessive audio bitrate
Audio bitrates higher than 128kbps are rarely needed for internet streaming. Consider keeping the bitrate around 128kbps for optimal bandwidth usage.
Slower preset in use
You have changed the default preset to hq. Using slower presets can result in late frames and high CPU usage / low FPS. You should only change the preset if you are sure you have the CPU power to spare.
Bad resolution / FPS / bitrate combination
The combination of settings you are using will likely lead to a low quality stream with artifacting and other problems. Consider either raising your bitrate or lowering your resolution / FPS (qval: 0.001)
3 issues found (1 major, 2 minor).
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But none of these issues seem to cater to the fact that the stream was buffering a lot until it eventually lost connection.
Also here is my speedtest results, which shows the issues were nothing to do with my connection. I was using an ethernet cable as well.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3968442116
Here is the log file for more information, the issue started at around 17:40
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https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4ca1ee22f0d991db57d3
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Excessive audio bitrate
Audio bitrates higher than 128kbps are rarely needed for internet streaming. Consider keeping the bitrate around 128kbps for optimal bandwidth usage.
Slower preset in use
You have changed the default preset to hq. Using slower presets can result in late frames and high CPU usage / low FPS. You should only change the preset if you are sure you have the CPU power to spare.
Bad resolution / FPS / bitrate combination
The combination of settings you are using will likely lead to a low quality stream with artifacting and other problems. Consider either raising your bitrate or lowering your resolution / FPS (qval: 0.001)
3 issues found (1 major, 2 minor).
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But none of these issues seem to cater to the fact that the stream was buffering a lot until it eventually lost connection.
Also here is my speedtest results, which shows the issues were nothing to do with my connection. I was using an ethernet cable as well.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3968442116
Here is the log file for more information, the issue started at around 17:40
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https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4ca1ee22f0d991db57d3
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