Hi guys. Very new to this streaming game. I have live streamed on Facebook a few times but always from the mobile. I recently found out about OBS and love it. Got my self all set up for a lovely little live stream with clips and photos and a logo beside my camera. Only for the thing to freeze seconds in and never recover. I was gutted. I checked all the settings and they seemed fine. Started looking around you tube for help and google and was met by many videos talking about bitrates and such like. This was all new to me but followed the advice and tried again. Still jumpy though a little better. I then disconnected every internet device in my house much to the annoyance of my kids and tried again. In fact it seemed worse. I have now tried a single Facebook live through Facebook itself and whilst the stream rate drops and frame rate. It generally plays ok. This is making me think it’s to do with OBS and how I have it set up. Any ideas guys. Thanks in advance.
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Lawrence_SoCal
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real-time video encoding is VERY computationally demanding. Is your PC up to the task? You may have to learn the basic of hardware resource monitoring (Windows Task manager <Performance Tab) and/or Resource Monitor)
You have to balance the capabilities of your computer with the operating system and OBS settings. Trying to run OBS on a long-battery life focused laptop is a very poor choice/fit. Modern systems when combined with video encoding offload to GPU can do wonders.
Per the pinned post in this forum (and this will give us some of your PC specs)
obsproject.com
And WiFi is not a reliable medium, usually. It can be, *if* you really know what you are doing. Hopefully you are using wired Ethernet
You have to balance the capabilities of your computer with the operating system and OBS settings. Trying to run OBS on a long-battery life focused laptop is a very poor choice/fit. Modern systems when combined with video encoding offload to GPU can do wonders.
Per the pinned post in this forum (and this will give us some of your PC specs)
Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...
OBS Studio creates a log file each time you run it which contains very useful diagnostic information. Without a log file, it's much harder for any support volunteers to figure out problems and your post may be ignored. To upload a log file, go to the Help menu > Log Files > Upload Last Log...
And WiFi is not a reliable medium, usually. It can be, *if* you really know what you are doing. Hopefully you are using wired Ethernet
Here's the quick-start guide:
OBS Studio Quickstart
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studioobsproject.com
I'd also recommend watching the Nerd or Die tutorial video series:
OBS Studio Tutorial Series Introduction | Tutorial 1/13
Welcome to our OBS Studio tutorial series! In this series we're going to cover everything that you'll need to know to make your stream look great.Next Video...www.youtube.com
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hi guys thanks.
I’m defo running Ethernet and the processor is an AMD A9-9425 Radeon r5 3.1Ghz
ram is 4gm usable is 3.87.
Running windows 10
pc is just over a year old. It runs fin on everything else just when I stream. I put the bitrate down to 1500 and still getting issues. I’m with virgin media broadband 100meg. I don’t think I should be getting the issues stream at the levels I am at. Watching videos and streaming films on firestick with no issues just when I stream via OBS. Thanks
Lawrence_SoCal
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I wasn't familiar with that CPU model number and did a quick search - online reference is to a low-end laptop 15W CPU meant for thin and light laptops... so similar to Intel's U series - really poor fit for real-time video encoding. 4GB RAM is on the low side for Win7 and newer. AMD's GPUs have widely reported problem with H.264 encoding offload.. so I'm guessing you are using CPU encoding (on an under-powered for the task) CPU
When you say you stream, are you talking about download watching (which is an entirely different thing, video codecs are designed to be low demand to decode, encode... whole other thing.. orders of magnitude more demanding). If you mean video livestream/upload, then it depends on what you are using. Watching streamed videos has no bearing on ability to encode and send video content. Also many consumer Internet connections don't have same upload and download bandwidths (usually much higher download, for receiving content). Why does your phone do ok livestreaming video? dedicated chip on the device to handle the video encoding (and optimized software to take advantage of that chip)
I'd expect if you used Discord, or similar, on that laptop you might have similar issues... (though, those apps often greatly reduce bitrate compared to your OBS settings)
When you say you stream, are you talking about download watching (which is an entirely different thing, video codecs are designed to be low demand to decode, encode... whole other thing.. orders of magnitude more demanding). If you mean video livestream/upload, then it depends on what you are using. Watching streamed videos has no bearing on ability to encode and send video content. Also many consumer Internet connections don't have same upload and download bandwidths (usually much higher download, for receiving content). Why does your phone do ok livestreaming video? dedicated chip on the device to handle the video encoding (and optimized software to take advantage of that chip)
I'd expect if you used Discord, or similar, on that laptop you might have similar issues... (though, those apps often greatly reduce bitrate compared to your OBS settings)