Question / Help "WARNING: Taking too long to encode, skipping frames!"

[bortzbot]

I keep getting this and I've changed the settings to what every video has told me whats going on?

 

[R1CH]

You changed your x264 preset despite the warnings, so now you are having problems. Put it back to veryfast, if it still continues, lower your resolution.

 

[bortzbot]

THANK YOU SO MUCH R1CH!!

 

[kingrooster38]

I am also experiencing this warning. Any advice on settings for me? Stream mostly (99%) Games.

 

[alpinlol]

well dont stream fucking 1080p@60 fps wtf

1080p@30 or 720p@60 you chose

 

[FerretBomb]

No need for vulgarity, alpin.
But yeah, 1080p@60fps isn't going to work well, for quite a number of reasons.

-Massive encoding requirements (Few CPUs today will be able to cope with encoding this res and framerate in real-time at any quality worth watching)
-Massive upstream requirements (which exceed Twitch's capabilities to ingest)
-Massive downstream requirements (many viewers won't want to devote ~10mbps just to watching a livestream)
-Flashplayer sucks (it can't deal with the compute requirements to decode the mass of data needed, on most common current systems)

1080@30, or 720@60 are the viable options.
So yeah, step it down a notch, manage the expectations as far as what is currently technically feasible.