Question / Help OBS says the stream is working but it isn't, caused by Mojave?

[HeartofEugene]

I have used OBS to broadcast our church worship services on YouTube for the past year and it suddenly stopped working. OBS Studio shows that we have a connection with only 5% dropped frames or so, yet the stream does not show up on our YouTube page. The only change in the setup of which I am aware is that we updated to OS Mojave, though I am not sure if that is when the problem started. So if I am not getting any error messages, what is the most likely place to start troubleshooting?

 

[Narcogen]

09:01:17.052: Output 'simple_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 2001 (26.4%)
09:01:17.052: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 7270 (99.6%)

You're overloading your GPU, and OBS is unable to connect to YouTube. I would doublecheck your network setup, including your DNS servers, and create a fresh blank profile and scene collection and run the autoconfiguration wizard and see what it says.

 

[HeartofEugene]

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

 

[HeartofEugene]

After following the above suggestions, my live stream on YouTube still wasn't working. After an hour of troubleshooting, I finally discovered that somehow the setting for "public" on my YouTube channel was changed to "unlisted". Urgh. Appreciate the help nevertheless, and I learned a few things in the process!