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

[lew662]

Twitch.tv stream freezes and OBS gives me this warning mesg. saying: Taking too long to encode, skipping...
I stream to twitch.tv with OBS vers. 0.57.04 and Dxtory vers. 2.0.123.
My OBS log file is included as a attachment.
This is the first time I've ever posted a bug so please bear with me. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Krazy]

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Don't stream 1080p120fps, your PC can't keep up, 25% late frames, 50% skipped. That's what the warning is about.

Seriously, don't even do 1080p60fps, the bitrate requirements are way too high for decent picture, and the Flash player can't even play it back properly.

 

[lew662]

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Don't stream 1080p120fps, your PC can't keep up, 25% late frames, 50% skipped. That's what the warning is about.

Seriously, don't even do 1080p60fps, the bitrate requirements are way too high for decent picture, and the Flash player can't even play it back properly.

Thanks Krazy, that fixed it right away - no more WARNING mesgs. I thought I'd be able to max it out - guess not. I just reset the FPS back to 30 and that was it.

 

[wakecold]

I have the same problem, but I stream 360p@25fps. Already tried test build and x32, have the same issue. Attached log file

 

[MasterDeathLag]

Somebody help me! I don't know how to change quality pixels and stuff, and also don't know what encoding does. It seems like the higher i put the numbers for encoding the longer it takes to encode. Does it matter really much what settings i change in encoding?

 

[MasterDeathLag]

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Help me!!!

 

[dodgepong]

If you're having issues with taking too long to encode, follow this guide: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/high-cpu-usage-taking-too-long-to-encode-read-this-first.11641/