Here is my log file. I am on a 100mbit upload and the rtmp server is on a 100gigabit backbone, but when I use my laptop to stream the stream source is choppy, pixelated and lagged by like 10 seconds. Not sure if it's because of the low specs on my laptop or not, but I can stream using other things like skype, twitch, etc without the horrible video quality and lag, so not sure what the problem is:
Question / Help Streaming quality is horrible
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Harold
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The celeron n2840 is an extremely weak processor (8 year old desktop processors are typically better at streaming than it is, https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N2840+@+2.16GHz&id=2388 vs https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Quad+Q6600+@+2.40GHz&id=1038 )
Other streaming solutions probably cheat and do all kinds of other hacks to do things. Also, skype auto-scales the resolution to what your computer's capabilities are, and playback is FAR less cpu intensive than broadcast.
Other streaming solutions probably cheat and do all kinds of other hacks to do things. Also, skype auto-scales the resolution to what your computer's capabilities are, and playback is FAR less cpu intensive than broadcast.
This isn't the permanent piece of hardware that's being used for the stream, so it's not too imperative as to it being under-spec'd, I was/am just confused what's different with OBS to other services that allow streaming. Perhaps they do all the encoding and all that on the relay end instead of doing it on the stream end, otherwise I can't figure out why it would be different.
At least I know it's not an issue with the settings, and more with the hardware that's causing the issue. Thanks.