Question / Help Streaming and recording failing under x264 profile

[Simon Green]

Hi guys.
I've been building up a suite of scenes for event broadcast and I've pretty much got everything prepared but i have started to suffer a problem when starting to stream and when stopping a recording.
I've attached my log, it would appear to be some kind of problem with the x264 codec but i cant think what. Even after fidgeting about with settings i was able to get it to go ok and I've attached a second log for comparison.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as i would prefer to not encounter this problem when on site and possibly risk a loss of coverage.
Thanks

 

[RytoEX]

Your second log shows a successful stream, albeit with 22% of the frames dropped due to insufficient bandwidth.

Try running the Twitch Bandwith Test tool using a Medium Test Duration for your region with a 64k TCP Window Size, and post a screenshot of the results here so that we can see the results.

 

[Simon Green]

Just to be clear, I am testing on a particularly poor connection. The dropped frames to not concern me as I am fully aware that from where I am testing I do not have sufficient bandwidth.
All that aside, as far as I am aware, the error on the first log has nothing to do with bandwidth as it would appear that it doesn't even manage to connect, Right?

 

[RytoEX]

If you're talking about this error:

23:01:23.657: [x264 encoder: 'streaming_h264'] encode failed
23:01:23.817: Error encoding with encoder 'streaming_h264'
23:01:23.817: Called profile end with mismatching name: start("do_encode"[60E59760]) <-> end("receive_video"[60E5976C])

Then no, that has nothing to do with your connection. Possibly just from bad settings, as you've already established. Generally, you wouldn't use a custom buffer size. Though, there was recently a patch that made it into OBS Studio 0.16.3 that is related to that error message. You may want to update and try again.


If you mean this:

23:00:04.767: warning: deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
23:00:04.767: warning: Warning: data is not aligned! This can lead to a speedloss

Then I'm not sure what that's for. Camera image/video format?