OBS Video is 'Smeary' and breaks up..

[Emyr Evans]

Hi
I run an opsrey project in Wales. Been using Adobe Flash encoder for the last 12 years (No really!)

I'm trying OBS (finally) but find the video blocky, smeary with constant break-ups.

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We've just gone live today for the season (24/7 for 6 months) - can anyone let me know whether this could be fixed in OBS settings or am I better looking elsewhere?

Many thanks
Emyr

 

[FerretBomb]

You'd need to post a logfile from a streaming or recording session to be certain, but most often (enough to effectively be 'every time') that is caused by insufficient bitrate for the configured resolution/framerate.

What resolution/framerate/bitrate were you using with FMLE, and which are you using with OBS now?

 

[R1CH]

This looks like dropped packets from an IP camera, it looks like you may be using RTSP? Try forcing TCP with `rtsp_transport=tcp` in FFmpeg options.

 

[Emyr Evans]

You'd need to post a logfile from a streaming or recording session to be certain, but most often (enough to effectively be 'every time') that is caused by insufficient bitrate for the configured resolution/framerate.

What resolution/framerate/bitrate were you using with FMLE, and which are you using with OBS now?

Thanks for your reply.

It's a 4K IP camera at 25fps, downscaled to 1080 output. I've just increased the bitrate to 10,000 from 6,000, but no improvement unfortunately.

 

[Emyr Evans]

This looks like dropped packets from an IP camera, it looks like you may be using RTSP? Try forcing TCP with `rtsp_transport=tcp` in FFmpeg options.

Thank you for your help, really appreciated.

Will give this a go once our IT guy comes over on Tuesday. You're exactly right, it's a IP camera (Hikvision PTZ dome).

 

[Emyr Evans]

This looks like dropped packets from an IP camera, it looks like you may be using RTSP? Try forcing TCP with `rtsp_transport=tcp` in FFmpeg options.

Hey Rich - just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Our IT guys did exactly what you said and now we have a prfect OBS stream, in 4K!!!!

Many many thanks, Emyr