Question / Help Youtube / Keyframe Issue

thedennis

New Member
So here is what is happening when I am streaming. If any of you know things, please teach me. I am using OBS studio streaming to youTube. Windows 10 64bit, using a headset/mic.

Basically, things start out good (green "stream health") but after a minute or two go bad (red "stream health"), and I get that bad keyframe message. Interesting to note, the people that were on helping me test said that even when it was red, they could hear and see me fine.

So I suppose I should just ignore it? The OCD in me is screaming that that can't be right. I found the keyframe setting in OBS studio and it was set to "auto" (which was 0) while I was getting this message, then I changed it to "2" and it made no difference.

7:47 PM Bad Bad video settings
Please use a keyframe frequency of four seconds or less. Currently, keyframes are not being sent often enough, which will cause buffering. The current keyframe frequency is 7.9 seconds. Note that ingestion errors can cause incorrect GOP (group of pictures) sizes.
7:45 PM Bad Bad video settings
Please use a keyframe frequency of four seconds or less. Currently, keyframes are not being sent often enough, which will cause buffering. The current keyframe frequency is 8.3 seconds. Note that ingestion errors can cause incorrect GOP (group of pictures) sizes.
7:45 PM Good Stream is healthy
Stream health is excellent.
7:43 PM Bad Bad video settings
Please use a keyframe frequency of four seconds or less. Currently, keyframes are not being sent often enough, which will cause buffering. The current keyframe frequency is 8.3 seconds. Note that ingestion errors can cause incorrect GOP (group of pictures) sizes.
7:43 PM Good Stream is healthy
Stream health is excellent.
7:39 PM Bad Bad video settings
Please use a keyframe frequency of four seconds or less. Currently, keyframes are not being sent often enough, which will cause buffering. The current keyframe frequency is 8.3 seconds. Note that ingestion errors can cause incorrect GOP (group of pictures) sizes.
7:37 PM Good Stream is healthy
Stream health is excellent.
 

Miroslav Iliaš

New Member
Thanks for your answer !

This helped me a lot - in the OBS setting - Output - Advanced - I set the Keyframe interval to 2 (there was the deault value 0, meaning auto) and the stream quality got green all the time.

Keeping the default value 0 there, the stream quality behaviour is as described in the post above - it starts as green (healthy stream), but after a short while it turns red.
 

Harold

Active Member
Simple output mode with youtube selected as your streaming service will also put a keyframe interval of 2.
 
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