Stream stops on YouTube but in OBS its fine? Everytime i need a new stream key?

[bmilitant]

Greetings!

I run a 24/7 lofi channel on YouTube. I have a recurring issue that has happened on multiple PCs. I stream with 4,500 bit rate to YouTube which my my internet can definitely handle. I have gigabit internet and the upload speed can handle this.

After a day or 2 my stream is offline on YouTube.
I check out OBS and my stream PC and everything is running fine. There's no dropped frames and OBS is streaming and I would have to click on "stop streaming" to try to reset it. There are no errors or crashes.

When I hit stop streaming and then try to restart the stream, it does not work. OBS is streaming fine again with no dropped frames or errors, but it will not show up on my YouTube until i change the stream key and enter a new one into OBS...

My question is why Is this happening? Why do i need to change my stream key everytime my stream crashes. And also why is this mismatch happening? OBS is streaming fine but is this on Youtubes side?

Any ideas that would help is appreciated! Thanks in advance.

 

[bmilitant]

As you can see my stream went 200 plus hours and then just ended itself... when I went to my stream PC, everything was running fine. OBS was still streaming and there was no errors or dropped frames. But my stream has stopped and also didn't reconnect itself

 

[mrlewismharris]

YouTube has this weird behaviour when you want to start/restart a stream, I found out from doing IRL livestreams in London, when my stream ended or crashed I would restart the stream - the software would show the outgoing video was being picked up by yt but on the youtube livestreaming dashboard and my channel would never show the new stream as having started - I'm just reiterating to verify that this is the issue you're having aswell.

So here's the solution:
When you end the stream, make sure you click the "Dismiss" button:

If you watch the URL closely you'll notice the page loads:
https://studio.youtube.com/channel/USER_ID/livestreaming/dashboard
Before redirecting to a studio page of a video livestream:
https://studio.youtube.com/video/VIDEO_ID/livestreaming

What happened was YouTube needed to generate a video ID for the new stream (where the stream and PVR will be when the video ends)

Once that page is fully loaded you may stream to exactly the same stream key (only once the "Start sending us your video from your streaming software to go live" message is present)

PS. If this doesn't work then it's a different issue entirely, maybe due to the long stream length.