therealjaypo
New Member
First of all, awesome work on some first rate software, guys. The day I found OBS was the day I let my XSplit license expire and haven't looked back. I haven't even had issues on the old Core 2 Quad with a crappy $30 USB video capture thing I use for streaming oldschool console games.
The issue I'm having is my bitrate seems to "wander" radically while broadcasting. I have my stream (1280x720) set to Constant Bitrate, CBR padding, 2300k/s, no custom buffer.
Whenever I'm watching the bitrate (I guess it is) in the bottom right hand side of the window, it'll fluctuate from ~2100k/s to 2400k/s (which is fine), but sometimes It'll shoot up drastically (I'll see 2.7-3.3mbps in OBS).
Since they've started being a little stricter about quality, when I refresh Twitch to see what it says, sometimes it'll say my average bitrate is anywhere between 2200-2400k/s with peaks of around 3.7-4+mbps).
I don't remember offhand what variance they allow, but is there a setting somewhere I may have missed, could this be related to the CBR padding somehow not being removed when a peak comes along, or is Twitch just crazy? (So far as connection goes, it's entirely conceivable it could be hitting 3.7-4 with no drops/stutters as my upstream is 7mbps).
This is on my main machine (4.5ghz FX-8150, 7970 HD, 16gb RAM using Game Capture and the faster (IIRC) encoding preset) playing Guild Wars 2 which is a very high motion game with lots of volumetric effects and other encoding nightmares so I can see how it might go a couple hundred k/s over the bitrate I chose, but exceeding it by 100-200% seems a bit odd.
The issue I'm having is my bitrate seems to "wander" radically while broadcasting. I have my stream (1280x720) set to Constant Bitrate, CBR padding, 2300k/s, no custom buffer.
Whenever I'm watching the bitrate (I guess it is) in the bottom right hand side of the window, it'll fluctuate from ~2100k/s to 2400k/s (which is fine), but sometimes It'll shoot up drastically (I'll see 2.7-3.3mbps in OBS).
Since they've started being a little stricter about quality, when I refresh Twitch to see what it says, sometimes it'll say my average bitrate is anywhere between 2200-2400k/s with peaks of around 3.7-4+mbps).
I don't remember offhand what variance they allow, but is there a setting somewhere I may have missed, could this be related to the CBR padding somehow not being removed when a peak comes along, or is Twitch just crazy? (So far as connection goes, it's entirely conceivable it could be hitting 3.7-4 with no drops/stutters as my upstream is 7mbps).
This is on my main machine (4.5ghz FX-8150, 7970 HD, 16gb RAM using Game Capture and the faster (IIRC) encoding preset) playing Guild Wars 2 which is a very high motion game with lots of volumetric effects and other encoding nightmares so I can see how it might go a couple hundred k/s over the bitrate I chose, but exceeding it by 100-200% seems a bit odd.
