Encoder overloaded OBS

[surfergirlx]

Hi guys, some days that we are streaming with OBS, it says that our "encoder may be overloaded," however our CPU usage is 3%.

We shoot in 1080p, our bitrate is set to 6500kbps, keyframe interval 2s, and we are using ethernet cable with 10mbps upload speed (which shows to be pretty constant, with frames dropped below 0.5%).

We dont know if its sometimes something to do with the CB platform itself that has some glitches every now and then or something to do with our settings on OBS.

Anyone else with this issue?

Would really appreciate any help on this as we are still learning.

Thanks!

 

[mike_aussie]

Had the same thing last Sunday for about 4 hours. I target 6000kbps @1080p/30fps. One of my users periodically told me it was fine his end when I asked so it was likely a CB issue. A couple of days ago it was completely fine. I always start streaming with the same OBS settings.

 

[cbhours]

change obs servers

 

[ellinrose]

I have this issue a lot , where my bitrate is dropping from 6000kb to 1000kb and so on. Also my FPS is sometimes not constant and it drops from 30 fps to 2 fps. There are even times where it stuck on low bitrate and fps .
I could mostly fixed the issue by starting the stream new and closing and opening OBS again.

 

[surfergirlx]

We had a similar issue like this before but it was because the laptop wasn't powerful. We now have 16GB ram and i9 processor so the laptop has the power to not get overlaoded when streaming in 1080p.

Also have just changed OBS server will update if this helps with the stream, thank you

 

[mike_aussie]

change obs servers

Tried setting it to the Australia server instead of Global earlier today and CB was still throwing up errors. Sometimes it was displaying 10-15fps (instead of 30fps) and the bitrate was swinging between 1000 and 11,000 kbps (instead of around 6000). The few people I had in my room didn't complain... Been crazy all week. False errors or CB servers overloaded, I don't know.

 

[cbhours]

Tried setting it to the Australia server instead of Global earlier today and CB was still throwing up errors. Sometimes it was displaying 10-15fps (instead of 30fps) and the bitrate was swinging between 1000 and 11,000 kbps (instead of around 6000). The few people I had in my room didn't complain... Been crazy all week. False errors or CB servers overloaded, I don't know.

Are you in australia? My theory is that when you pick the main server its going to pick a nearby point anyway so I usually don't try a nearby server anymore. I cycle between main, backup, amsterdam, arizona.

 

[mike_aussie]

Back to normal yesterday on the global server. No problems at all.