Restreaming a live stream at 1080P 60fps. Is this machine enough?

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tankman

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I just bought a refurbished desktop that I plan to exclusively use only to restream a 1080P 60fps stream at the same resolution back to youtube (no gaming, no other multitasking). Unfortunately, the machine I bought does not have an encoder graphics card (only a Nvidia gt 1030).

So I currently have it restreaming and it is consuming about 20-23% CPU. The current dropped frames is 0.2% after 2 hours into streaming.

My specs are:
Intel Core i7 4th Gen 3.4 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, HDMI

My questions are:

1. Is having this type of graphics card at all helpful for what I am doing?? or was looking for a refurbished machine with a nvidia graphics card without nvenc a useless endeavor?
2. Are the current specs of this machine fine for what I'm doing?
3. Could my hardware be to blame for the "advanced scene switcher" plugin not working?

Thanks.
 
tankman said:
I just bought a refurbished desktop that I plan to exclusively use only to restream a 1080P 60fps stream at the same resolution back to youtube (no gaming, no other multitasking). Unfortunately, the machine I bought does not have an encoder graphics card (only a Nvidia gt 1030).

So I currently have it restreaming and it is consuming about 20-23% CPU. The current dropped frames is 0.2% after 2 hours into streaming.

My specs are:
Intel Core i7 4th Gen 3.4 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, HDMI

My questions are:

1. Is having this type of graphics card at all helpful for what I am doing?? or was looking for a refurbished machine with a nvidia graphics card without nvenc a useless endeavor?
2. Are the current specs of this machine fine for what I'm doing?
3. Could my hardware be to blame for the "advanced scene switcher" plugin not working?

Thanks.
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>Could my hardware be to blame for the "advanced scene switcher" plugin not working?
I doubt it, but can you elaborate on what exactly is not working in regards to the plugin? (It might make sense to move that discussion into the plugin's thread or you can send me a message directly)
 
tankman said:
I just bought a refurbished desktop that I plan to exclusively use only to restream a 1080P 60fps stream at the same resolution back to youtube (no gaming, no other multitasking). Unfortunately, the machine I bought does not have an encoder graphics card (only a Nvidia gt 1030).

So I currently have it restreaming and it is consuming about 20-23% CPU. The current dropped frames is 0.2% after 2 hours into streaming.

My specs are:
Intel Core i7 4th Gen 3.4 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, HDMI

My questions are:

1. Is having this type of graphics card at all helpful for what I am doing?? or was looking for a refurbished machine with a nvidia graphics card without nvenc a useless endeavor?
2. Are the current specs of this machine fine for what I'm doing?
3. Could my hardware be to blame for the "advanced scene switcher" plugin not working?

Thanks.
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Why are you restreaming a video stream back to YouTube? We cannot assist with stream piracy here.
 
I have permission to restream. no piracy. Also, I got #3 to work by uninstalling and reinstalling obs and the plugin.

Some editing is being done in obs before restreaming back to youtube, so I obs is useful.

Is the nvidia 1030 GT at all helping with this process?

Thanks
 
tankman said:
I have permission to restream. no piracy. Also, I got #3 to work by uninstalling and reinstalling obs and the plugin.

Some editing is being done in obs before restreaming back to youtube, so I obs is useful.

Is the nvidia 1030 GT at all helping with this process?

Thanks
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The 1030 can handle the hardware acceleration for any scaling, color conversion, or transforms. It also allows OBS to do those functions in VRAM rather than much slower system RAM. But as a 1030 is not equipped with NVENC, it misses out on the biggest load-saver.

As TryHD said though, OBS is not meant or designed for this purpose.
 
Thanks FerretBomb for your wisdom on this. I'm importing 3 youtube feeds and timed scene switching them with transitions as well as featuring 2 streams in the same scene. I have music playing, some browser captured webpages featuring custom HTML and javascript overlapping the video, and some overlayed images as well.

Now that you know all that, do you still think that TryHD's suggestion of using https://streamlink.github.io/ + ffmpeg is the better option over OBS or does this just boil down to personal preference now...?
 
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