Running OBS Long Term

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dmemphis

Member
Hi I'm experimenting with using OBS long term for a playout system using the VLC Video Source Playlist facility.
running 24/7 on three separate machines that are pulling files from a file server.
I'm seeing crashes about every 48 hours.
I'm running a plain vanilla 27.0.1.
I have settled on 720p60 10kbps mp4 file format for reasonably good imaging and relatively
low overhead on the 100Mbps lan.
I am only using the declink output at this time to mini monitors.
Soon I will be adding streaming to this configuration too.
I'd like this system to be stable for a month at the least before I put it in service.
I will be posting crash reports regularly as they happen to hopefully help make OBS
and its configuration very reliable.
Here's the first one.
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11/13/2021
OBS exited unattended.
Device name Optimus-PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40 GHz
Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.88 GB usable)
Device ID 68490DD0-EB7D-4B61-B674-DC3E13085190
Product ID 00330-50000-00000-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display
 
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dmemphis

Member
Another machine found crashed

OBS Exited unattended.
Device name MC-PLAYOUT-22
Processor AMD A10-6700 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 3.70 GHz
Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.40 GB usable)
Device ID 47A67DEC-0554-4EB2-9D8B-37970E6EC11C
Product ID 00330-80000-00000-AA048
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display
 
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dmemphis

Member
Though OBS exited unexpectedly on the two prior machines, this third one was still running
fine.
Playout-28
Core I5-2320 3Ghz 8GB Ram.
 
Harold

Harold

Active Member
Decklink outputs are causing your crashes. You're going to want to update both of them to 27.1.3
 
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dmemphis

Member
OK will do. I thought I was on the latest... :0
I will now consider no crash valid unless its the latest version.
All three are updated to 27.1.3 now, thanks.
 
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dmemphis

Member
FYI
In the configurations as described CPU utilization is as follows:
AMD A10-6700 70%
i5-2720 47%
i7-2600 29%

I am liketly going to have to replace the AMD A10 machine with a stronger one.
None of these have graphic card accelerators.
I have a GFX 750ti at hand, should I try that in the A10 machine?
Perhaps it will help decode the 720p mp4 file playback?
 
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