Question / Help Recorded playback is slower than real-time; motion is jerky.

[REricB]

https://obsproject.com/logs/PDVuH0CR2lPRJfSm

My question is how do I make my recordings and streams appear in normal (real) time? I've tried a few things suggested in the manual, and the forum. I've tried varying the bitrate, changing the encoder, varying the FPS, changing the NVIDIA graphics processor to integrated graphics, and maybe a few other things. The log file seems to show some problems, but I don't really understand them.

Thanks for your help!
Eric

 

[Sukiyucky]

Eric,

Your laptop isn't meant for gaming and streaming/recording at the same time. It is a general purpose laptop. Save yourself the frustration... you need to get a stronger desktop (not laptop) computer. Also a 940M Nvidia doesn't have an NVENC encoder so you won't be able to offload x264 onto it to reduce CPU processing.

 

[carlmmii]

Try using quicksync. Your cpu is very underpowered, so even at the lowest x264 settings you're probably not going to match what quicksync is able to do. Quicksync should at least be able to keep up with encoding, but you should probably lower your output resolution to 720p, or reduce your framerate to 30fps, just so that the bitrate you will be limited to while streaming will be enough to produce a good enough quality.

If you need to do streaming and recording simultaneously, pretty much the only way to do that will be to use the stream encoder for recording -- you probably won't be able to have two separate encoding sessions happen, so this will at least be the next best thing.

 

[REricB]

Eric,

Your laptop isn't meant for gaming and streaming/recording at the same time. It is a general purpose laptop. Save yourself the frustration... you need to get a stronger desktop (not laptop) computer. Also a 940M Nvidia doesn't have an NVENC encoder so you won't be able to offload x264 onto it to reduce CPU processing.

Hi Sukiyucky, thanks for your helpful respose. I don't want to game and stream at the same time though. I want to stream a live video on Facebook, (I'm a musician); does this make a difference?

 

[REricB]

Try using quicksync. Your cpu is very underpowered, so even at the lowest x264 settings you're probably not going to match what quicksync is able to do. Quicksync should at least be able to keep up with encoding, but you should probably lower your output resolution to 720p, or reduce your framerate to 30fps, just so that the bitrate you will be limited to while streaming will be enough to produce a good enough quality.

If you need to do streaming and recording simultaneously, pretty much the only way to do that will be to use the stream encoder for recording -- you probably won't be able to have two separate encoding sessions happen, so this will at least be the next best thing.

Hi carlmmii, I'm also grateful for your thoughtful reply. It sounds like maybe I need to get a desktop computer. I don't know if I could swing it financially.