Question / Help Why does OBSs' stream health sometimes stay red forever and NEVER recover?

[Vahnkiljoy]

Meanwhile twitch is sitting pretty as well as my bitrate, my stream pc has nothing running BUT obs so I really don't know what the hell causes it or why OBS always REFISES to fix itself from that but I just utterly hate having to restart the damn stream to get it from red.

 

[R1CH]

Please post a log with your issue! Here's how...

OBS Studio creates a log file each time you run it which contains very useful diagnostic information. Without a log file, it's much harder for any support volunteers to figure out problems and your post may be ignored. To upload a log file, go to the Help menu > Log Files > Upload Last Log...

obsproject.com

 

[FerretBomb]

That green/yellow/red indicator is the buffer fullness meter.
Staying red means that OBS is generating data to be sent faster than your network card can send it, so your local buffer is filling up. Think of it like a bucket where the drain is smaller than the water being poured in.

If you haven't already, I'd recommend running R1ch's Twitch Test app, which can help check if your connection to the ingest may not be able to sustain the bitrate you've set, or if there might be a connection quality issue causing re-sends to be forced and eating up that bitrate. You can grab it here: https://r1ch.net/projects/twitchtest

(edit) Posting a logfile from a session where the issue is occurring would definitely be helpful too, and let us take a peek at anything obvious on the back-end that could be contributing to the issue. (/edit)

 

[Vahnkiljoy]

https://obsproject.com/logs/ts_dEKDPgj7UyU--

I THINK this is the logfile? After restarting I chose to upload the last logfile, whether that is what is being done now I dunno, going to hope it was the previous stream.

 

[Harold]

Dropped Frames And General Connection Issues

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

obsproject.com

 

[R1CH]

According to your log your entire connection is going down, as OBS isn't even able to resolve the Twitch DNS names. This is likely a problem with your ISP / modem / router / internet connection.

 

[Vahnkiljoy]

Which is weird because my internet didn't go down, twitch itself had a strange issue that dropped the stream for my viewers and my preview, think that's when the red health started.
@Harold
Not sure what you're on about with the saving, I don't save any video so the setting is just there not being used so kind of confused as to your post.

 

[Harold]

Why are you replying to my signature and not my post?

 

[Narcogen]

Why are you replying to my signature and not my post?

A bunch of people seem to be doing that on the forum lately. I don't know if something about the way their browsers are rendering either hides the body, or somehow makes the .sig text look more prominent than the body, or what.

 

[FerretBomb]

A bunch of people seem to be doing that on the forum lately. I don't know if something about the way their browsers are rendering either hides the body, or somehow makes the .sig text look more prominent than the body, or what.

There's a reason I added a double-line break above mine; to make it visibly a signature block. The default forum skin has a VERY faint line, and the sig text in a darker grey to denote. But when the entirety of a post is simply quoting something, it's easy to mistake a text sig as being a response under a quote.

 

[Narcogen]

Cool. I'm gonna steal that.