OBS spikes bitrate, picture freezes, stream crashes and OBS locks up.

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EnemyBritBomber

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Just as the title says, some days the stream will crash from a bitrate spike and when this happens OBS freezes except I can see the audio lines jumping still, only way to close OBS is from task manager. It doesn't say "Not responding" but it doesn't respond to any clicks.

I saw another thread, to which I added my reply and logs to, and received no response, the thread mentioned disabling StreamElements, I had disabled StreamElements source and yet it still occurred.

Here are the two logs I got from when it did it. I believe there are also other days where this issue causes stream to disconnect and then reconnect and OBS doesn't freeze up.


 
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EnemyBritBomber

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Would really appreciate some sort of a response on my post here. Since I did what many others fail to do and post their logs in first post... Here's another day of disconnects and logs.
 

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PaiSand

PaiSand

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Please use this tool to more accurately measure your internet connection against Twitch servers:

TwitchTest | r1ch.net

Test your upload bandwidth and connection quality to Twitch
r1ch.net r1ch.net
Anything bellow 90 quality is bad and normally shows problems on the ISP side.

It actually looks like an issue on the ISP.
Contact their support and make sure to tell them that the RTMP protocol is constantly crashing and you need it to stream.


On other side:
12:58:49.354: [Loaded global audio device]: '2 Mic/Aux'
12:58:49.354: - filter: 'Gain' (gain_filter)
12:58:49.354: - filter: 'Noise Gate' (noise_gate_filter)
12:58:49.354: - filter: 'Compressor' (compressor_filter)
12:58:49.354: - filter: 'VST 2.x Plug-in' (vst_filter)
12:58:49.354: - filter: 'Noise Suppression' (noise_suppress_filter)
12:58:49.354: - filter: 'Expander' (expander_filter)
12:58:49.354: - filter: 'Limiter' (limiter_filter)
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Fix this.
First goes noise gate or noise suppresion, then compressor, then EQ. Never, ever set a gain filter before a noise gare or noise supression. you want to remove the noise before actually do other filters.
Remove anything you don't use.
 
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EnemyBritBomber

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PaiSand said:
Please use this tool to more accurately measure your internet connection against Twitch servers:

TwitchTest | r1ch.net

Test your upload bandwidth and connection quality to Twitch
r1ch.net r1ch.net
Anything bellow 90 quality is bad and normally shows problems on the ISP side.

It actually looks like an issue on the ISP.
Contact their support and make sure to tell them that the RTMP protocol is constantly crashing and you need it to stream.


On other side:

Fix this.
First goes noise gate or noise suppresion, then compressor, then EQ. Never, ever set a gain filter before a noise gare or noise supression. you want to remove the noise before actually do other filters.
Remove anything you don't use.
Click to expand...
Appreciate the response.
Most of those filters for the mic were inactive as they were for an old microphone, but have removed all inactive ones as you advised.

Had run that bandwith test already, from another of the forums posts and have been on the shortest RTT server with a 98 Quality.

Today may have been RTMP crashing, but that doesn't cause OBS to effectively "lock up" which is the main issue I'm trying to have resolved from the original post and logs. Did you by chance look at those and see anything other than StreamElements? Or is OBS locking up not giving a proper log of what happens when it happens? Or am I assuming rightly so that the wall of error text from StreamElements would be the cause of OBS locking up and becoming non-responsive?
 
PaiSand

PaiSand

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Always use the analyzer and follow its directions and recommendations:

Analyzer | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
obsproject.com obsproject.com

If you only stream to Twitch would be better to change the alerts to the twitch alerts section and only use a third party alerts services to add overlays for merchandising and such which now are also integrated within Twitch alerts.

First make OBS work as intended. This mean, restore to default. Run the Auto-configuration Wizard (tools menu) and aplly the settings it gives. Do NOT change anything.
Restart OBS (!important)
Test as is. If all goes well you're done. If not, use the analyzer again.

And most probably the issues with connection are due to a third party app messing with the network traffic or the ISP.
 
qhobbes

qhobbes

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"Install" iTunes to enable CoreAudio, lower your audio bitrate and enable Dynamic bitrate (settings, advanced, network).
 
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EnemyBritBomber

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qhobbes said:
"Install" iTunes to enable CoreAudio, lower your audio bitrate and enable Dynamic bitrate (settings, advanced, network).
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Can this be explained more? Install a program on my PC I don't plan to use, which has known constant resource usages therefore adding to bogging down resources?
 
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