So I had streamed about 3 days ago. with normal settings with 6000 kbps with no issues, Then I tried to stream today, suddenly the bitrate started lowering and the dropped frames were becoming high the second I start the stream up. I have absolutely no idea this was gonna happen or what is causing it now so suddenly, especially with my internet being normal, even after lowering the bitrate it still had heavy dropped frames. So if anyone has any idea what is causing and or if there is a way to fix this, please let me know as I will be more than happy to listen and try whatever is suggested or even i can get in contact with someone too. Thank you!
Sudden Dropped Frames
- Thread starter MusouSan
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lorentedford
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What is your Upload Speed Test results? Can you send me an MTR report to 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.8.8 Preferably of at least 100 sent and Received packets. If you do a Traceroute to the server that your broadcasting to is there any packet loss or unusual latency between the hops? Dropped frames can be a number of things It can be hardware related network related or misconfiguration of your OBS settings.
lorentedford
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Ok well your uploading at 6,000 kbps that's at 6 Mbps on your upstream to Twitch. That is a little high for that connection I prefer the 1/3 rule to allow for overhead with online gaming and other issues that may occur while streaming. So for your Scenario I would probably upstream at like 4,000 kbps at 1080p 24 fps. That's another rule of thumb I personally like to get into which is if your at a hard limit of your stream provider example Twitch has a hard limit of 6,000 kbps regardless of the resolution and frame rate for the general public. If you want higher quality streams you have to find providers that allow and offer that but a good quality upstream for 1080p at 60 fps is like 18,000 kbps at 30 fps and closer to 32,000 kbps at 60 fps when upstreaming meeting certain Quality benchmarks. Keep in mind at lossless quality or at max file size of 1 Farme at 1080p is roughly 6.5 Mb so if you have 24 frames that is 156 Mb at the max file size for one second of video at 2,073,600 px per frame.
I know this is a bit technical here but I hope this explains a bit more at what's happening more than likely at the hardware encoding level when you push the start stream button and how network limitations will prevent you from streaming at super quality or what I call our in house levels of recording.
I know this is a bit technical here but I hope this explains a bit more at what's happening more than likely at the hardware encoding level when you push the start stream button and how network limitations will prevent you from streaming at super quality or what I call our in house levels of recording.
lorentedford
Member
Sorry if I was out of line by listing my common explanation of things but your right log files and the new log analyzer thing is amazing. Like I stated in an earlier post we didn't have that fancy stuff back in 2013 or so when I was playing with this stuff we just had to read through text editors till we went cross eyed lol..