MayorQwert
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So this is weird. I am using OBS for a music stream on YouTube but when I do so the actual YouTube stream will occasionally skip minutes at a time for no apparent reason. I have my bit rate, resolution, etc. set as low as I can to maintain effective video quality for my purposes and have literal 0 dropped frames in the over 6 hours I have currently been live with this stream. As far as OBS is concerned everything looks alright and I haven't had problems from what I can see.
However, in spite of this, the YouTube stream is randomly dropping data minutes at a time even though it says everything is A-OK with the connection with no issues. There's no buffering or anything, it just randomly will skip minutes forward in the stream periodically. This can be seen from YouTube by the shown screenshot from the YouTube Studio editor when compared with the actual length showing up on the stream itself:
As can be seen, Studio says it has been live for over six hours while the actual youtube recording is actually less than 5 hours long!
(I know for a fact that was the starting song for the stream)
I have no idea how I can remedy this and if there is any advise for how to format OBS to remove this issue please let me know! I definitely don't want to have a music stream that random skips whole albums at a time!!
Please let me know if you need any pictures of my setup in OBS. I have at least included the below screenshot to show I haven't been experiencing frame skipping as far as OBS is concerned...
Also just note that the REC time is over 6 hours here as well. I started recording at the same time I started going live, which once again is showing up as over an hour less than the actual length should be!
However, in spite of this, the YouTube stream is randomly dropping data minutes at a time even though it says everything is A-OK with the connection with no issues. There's no buffering or anything, it just randomly will skip minutes forward in the stream periodically. This can be seen from YouTube by the shown screenshot from the YouTube Studio editor when compared with the actual length showing up on the stream itself:
As can be seen, Studio says it has been live for over six hours while the actual youtube recording is actually less than 5 hours long!
(I know for a fact that was the starting song for the stream)
I have no idea how I can remedy this and if there is any advise for how to format OBS to remove this issue please let me know! I definitely don't want to have a music stream that random skips whole albums at a time!!
Please let me know if you need any pictures of my setup in OBS. I have at least included the below screenshot to show I haven't been experiencing frame skipping as far as OBS is concerned...
Also just note that the REC time is over 6 hours here as well. I started recording at the same time I started going live, which once again is showing up as over an hour less than the actual length should be!
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