Video freezing for some viewers, log attached

[nickark]

Hi all. Firstly hello and thank you to everyone who contributes to OBS. I have been using it since 2020 to broadcast on Twitch and it is a brilliant piece of software. Nothing else seems to come close and I have really enjoyed using it. The flexibility in what you can do seems endless!

I am posting on here because I thought there may be someone who can spend two minutes looking at a log file (attached for 7th May when I last streamed) and say "this is the problem". I am not expecting any more effort than that for nothing.

All I would like to know really is if my laptop is simply not up to spec. I personally think it's the RAM but not sure if it's the processor too.

Just to give you an idea of what I am doing:

• My laptop is a 2020 Macbook with M1 processor, 8GB RAM and 256GB hard drive
• Connected to that via two small USB hubs - two 1080p cameras, a Yamaha USB mixer, a Pioneer DJM-750 mixer, a portable hard drive and USB-C power
• When I stream (on Twitch), I run OBS, Touch Portal, maybe four open tabs in Chrome, Djay Pro & Pioneer DJM-750 (mixer) setting utility
• Running constantly in OBS, I have a video background layer, a constant HTML chat feed, another HTML layer for notifications like follows, two cameras, an audio input from the Yamaha USB mixer, a few smaller layers such as a spinning logo and a carousel of other logos
• On top of the above, I have multiple other layers that are only shown when redeemed and they are mostly animated GIFs or short MP4 files
• Those redeems come through to OBS via web sockets with Touch Portal acting as the connection between Twitch and OBS
• A lot of the layers have a filter to remove background eg. one of the cameras as it is a green screen setup
• I broadcast at 1080p

My streams are mostly fine but now and again, I get people saying video has frozen. Audio usually continues when it happens. When looking at the live stats during the stream on 7th May, I do remember seeing a figure in red this week and do think it was a rendering lag. I've just had OBS open while typing this and noticed it's up to 154 frames missed due to rendering lag and that's on a scene with only 7 layers - 2 text, 2 video small looped video files, 1 small animated GIF, 1 plain black box (colour source), and 1 audio (which is not currently connected - nothing is at the moment via USB). I have attached the log for today as well. The other issue I have is not OBS-related but may help to diagnose. I find that if I slide between desktops on the screen, it can cause a slight drop in audio from Djay Pro as I do it.

Thank you.