On March 31 2015 10:48 Zaviior wrote: So I have the problem of having a 4.7mbps upload speed. When I preveiw the stream my bitrate shown matches this, but as soon as I start an actual stream I begin to drop lots of frames and have at last a 1mpbs drop in my bitrate, even if I lower the bitrate it still drops even more than its beginning position. Is this something unique to my computer/connection or is this a general problem? I can post all the info and screenshots you need.
Are you doing speed test WHILE streaming? The stream will use some of your bandwidth and make the test inaccurate - you should only run bandwidth tests while nothing else is using any bandwidth other than the testing application
the actual bitrate that you should use, CBR, within OBS should be the number that you get from that to that particular server, with some limits:
1; Should be 3500 or below 2; should be at least ~200-300 below your upload bandwidth, or 10-20% below if your upload is ~2mbit+. That's to account for variance in upload bandwidth as well as other programs using small amounts of it
If you're dropping frames on a server that the above test says is good for you, then lower bitrate until you stop dropping.. and then go down about 10% more. Upload speed will vary, it might barely vary at all or it could have huge swings some days or hours vs others depending on your ISP and connection hardware
I'm getting microstuttering when live streaming and recording video in OBS, I've had this issue before and fixed it I think but I can't for the life of me remember how. The stream & vods always looks fine but in-game it's clearly noticeable. Frames is actually fine at 60+ even in the most intense battles but if anyone ever had microstuttering you know how it presents itself and how annoying it is. Using the latest multiplatform version of OBS in Win10 64-bit with the D3D11 renderer & Sc2 in fullscreen windowed mode.
If anyone knows right off the bat what setting it was to change I'd very much appreciate it.
Do you only have the problem in sc2? Sc2 has several issues with microstutter and pronounced stutters at certain intervals and the performance losses from streaming make them more obvious
On August 15 2015 12:37 Cyro wrote: Do you only have the problem in sc2? Sc2 has several issues with microstutter and pronounced stutters at certain intervals and the performance losses from streaming make them more obvious
This is not set intervals microstutter, it's all the time 24/7. Hit the stream button and it appears then turn it off and video is smooth once more. I know about the normal ones and I hardly notice them on the new rig.
figured I'd ask here for advice. I started having short freezes in some situations when recording videos (not streaming). Here is an example of what happens:
Noet that those freezes only happen from time to time whenever something "big" happens on the screen. I tinkered with all kinds of options without success thus far. Does anyone have an idea what could be the cause for those short freezes? They don't appear in the preview screen and not in the game either, only in the finishes video. Thanks in advance...
figured I'd ask here for advice. I started having short freezes in some situations when recording videos (not streaming). Here is an example of what happens:
Noet that those freezes only happen from time to time whenever something "big" happens on the screen. I tinkered with all kinds of options without success thus far. Does anyone have an idea what could be the cause for those short freezes? They don't appear in the preview screen and not in the game either, only in the finishes video. Thanks in advance...
u shud probably check out the logs
go to help > log files, and find the log that corresponds to the recording, then upload it to pastebin or something
edit: in fact obs already has the option to upload log files for you
Does anyone have any idea why the sound levels would change when going into StarCraft 2 while streaming? Microphone level changes and when speaking it sounds like a robot, have to manually correct this each time, any ideas?
On August 17 2015 07:05 Nezgar wrote: LINK TO THE LOGFILE The recording from the video in question starts at 20:50:21 and ends at 21:06:11
im not very knowledgeable in looking at the logs, but for some reason the recording seems to stop at 20:50:22 and start again at 20:50:57
but if you say that the freezes only seem to happen when theres something big happening in the game, it points towards your cpu not being able to encode those frames
On August 17 2015 15:17 GGzerG wrote: Does anyone have any idea why the sound levels would change when going into StarCraft 2 while streaming? Microphone level changes and when speaking it sounds like a robot, have to manually correct this each time, any ideas?
Sc2 always changes windows mic levels to match in-game voip setting even when disabled so mske sure sc2 mic level match what you want it to be in stream/win.
On August 17 2015 07:05 Nezgar wrote: LINK TO THE LOGFILE The recording from the video in question starts at 20:50:21 and ends at 21:06:11
im not very knowledgeable in looking at the logs, but for some reason the recording seems to stop at 20:50:22 and start again at 20:50:57
but if you say that the freezes only seem to happen when theres something big happening in the game, it points towards your cpu not being able to encode those frames
You are right, my apologies... The recording in question starts at 20:50:57, I'll edit that in my post.
The odd thing is: At times the screen is full of effects and stuff going on without it resulting in a freeze. Like... right after the freeze there are 2 instances of the screen getting filled with particle effects and everything is just fine. In any case, what setting would I have to change in order for the freezes to stop (or at least being less severe)? I initially used OBS more than a year ago without those problems. I didn't record anything from ~August last year to May this year. When I picked it up again, I started having those issues. So I suspect something in the app or something in my setting changed and started to cause those issues.
The game and the preview while recording both look absolutely smooth. I am using 2 monitors, so I can see the preview while recording on my second monitor and there are no freezes in the preview window. I could even play while only watching the second monitor so I have no idea why the freezes appear in the finished video.
On August 17 2015 15:17 GGzerG wrote: Does anyone have any idea why the sound levels would change when going into StarCraft 2 while streaming? Microphone level changes and when speaking it sounds like a robot, have to manually correct this each time, any ideas?
Sc2 always changes windows mic levels to match in-game voip setting even when disabled so mske sure sc2 mic level match what you want it to be in stream/win.
On August 17 2015 15:17 GGzerG wrote: Does anyone have any idea why the sound levels would change when going into StarCraft 2 while streaming? Microphone level changes and when speaking it sounds like a robot, have to manually correct this each time, any ideas?
Sc2 always changes windows mic levels to match in-game voip setting even when disabled so mske sure sc2 mic level match what you want it to be in stream/win.
Can't remember exactly which one but I think it's Microphone level. Adjust that to the level you want it at then apply+accept then after that you can disable voip again. For some reason the sc2 solution uses the windows microphone levels and adjusts it at sc2 startup if it differs from in-game.
On August 17 2015 15:17 GGzerG wrote: Does anyone have any idea why the sound levels would change when going into StarCraft 2 while streaming? Microphone level changes and when speaking it sounds like a robot, have to manually correct this each time, any ideas?
Sc2 always changes windows mic levels to match in-game voip setting even when disabled so mske sure sc2 mic level match what you want it to be in stream/win.
Can't remember exactly which one but I think it's Microphone level. Adjust that to the level you want it at then apply+accept then after that you can disable voip again. For some reason the sc2 solution uses the windows microphone levels and adjusts it at sc2 startup if it differs from in-game.
When you say disable VOiP, you mean disabling voice chat in sc2 all together?
Enabled, disabled it really makes no difference in the end that depends on if you use it or not... The game will autoadjust your windows microphone levels based on those settings everytime you boot up the game regardless. I don't know how I can explain it any more clearly than that.
On August 18 2015 03:12 Nezgar wrote: The game and the preview while recording both look absolutely smooth. I am using 2 monitors, so I can see the preview while recording on my second monitor and there are no freezes in the preview window. I could even play while only watching the second monitor so I have no idea why the freezes appear in the finished video.
i think try reducing the bitrate and see what happens, 10000 is really really high, go for something like 4000, even if you're not actually streaming it
@nezgar try using a resolution downscale. 2x downscale = 1/4 resolution and way reduced load on the encoder, if that doesn't stutter then you're not encoding fast enough
I tried lowering the bitrate down to 3500 (later 1000) and set the downscale to x2... The result is the same: In the game and the preview window everything is smooth, in the finished video there are those short freezes every now and then.
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