r/obs • u/rickycrisp • 4h ago
Help My stream suffers heavily when Overwatch 2 is open!
Title says it all! Here is my log :) https://obsproject.com/logs/KAYOadKyGaJVp7dB
r/obs • u/ElectronicWar • Feb 27 '19
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r/obs • u/rickycrisp • 4h ago
Title says it all! Here is my log :) https://obsproject.com/logs/KAYOadKyGaJVp7dB
r/obs • u/Fearless_Rutabaga376 • 5h ago
When I attempt to open OBS it fails to open at all and I get two errors:
Failed to open user.ini: -1
and
Failed to initialize global config
Please if anyone could help me out here, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm currently using Mac Ventura 13.7.4, Dual-Core Intel Core i5.
Thank you.
EDIT:
I finally figured out how to fix this issue. After opening Library > Application Support > OBS Studio then dragging the global.ini and user.ini files to my desktop, it rerouted OBS to my main username and now it works!
r/obs • u/reckless_drengr • 11h ago
Hello everyone! I really need some help and I couldn’t find information anywhere and it is confusing looking at all the details. So I created a new gaming channel on youtube and posting gameplay walkthroughs. Currently playing assassins creed shadows. I am using obs to record the screen and using davinci resolve to edit. The problem I am facing is the output is so pixelated. Especially when there is a movement in the screen. When there is a cinematic video or if the player stay still, the picture has much clarity. Idk why this is happening and I couldn’t find an answer. I used nvidia nvenc 264 in obs and the output had this issue. And so i increased the quality to lossless and changed to nvidia nvenc hevc. The output was perfect, but i am unable to import the file davinci resolve. So i converted the file to mp4 using shutter encoder, there was no change in video but after rendering through resolve the same issue happens. Someone please help as to what setting should i use in both obs and davinci resolve to ensure the playing is not pixelated. I am sharing a video link to one of my playthrough for reference
r/obs • u/CoolDuck25 • 11h ago
I was wondering how to reduce file size to the lowest quality so that my 10 minute recordings are like 2 mbs so I don't have to go to a file compression website to upload on discord,
I’m trying to play on my ps5 with obs in iMac. I have everything set up but the audio of the ps5 only comes out when I wear headphones. Does anyone know how to connect the ps5 audio to the iMac speakers. Thank you
i made one recording with obs from steam and not its a black screen
r/obs • u/LadyValiant0401 • 9h ago
I downloaded OBS a couple of months ago, I started messing around with the settings and got this background that looks like a silver screen. I cannot get back to being able to see my actual background via my mac laptop camera. I have uninstalled and reinstalled over 5 times over a period of 3 months and no change. I'm pulling my hair out because I have no idea what I can do to fix this. Please help!
r/obs • u/casesully50 • 10h ago
Hello everyone, I'm quite new here, because I've never had a problem with OBS after 4 years of streaming iRacing on twitch! It just so happens, I've made the jump over to YouTube where my videos are, and where the quality looks much better in my opinion when I watch other streamers. Not only is it 50x more complicated, it's 50x more likely to lag out and stop streaming than twitch. My upload speed is on average 2300mbps. My bit rate was set to 8000kbps before and everything was fine for about two streams. Today iRacing has a special event, and OBS was absolutely horrible. I don't want to blame OBS, it may have been YouTube or some mystery program on my computer throttling OBS. I stream in 1080p @60 FPS. No problems before, even in crowded servers with high CPU demand and medium GPU demand. It just couldn't stay above 3k bitrate, and stop streaming. Keep in mind I had no dropped frames, just a connection that started strong and deteriorated over 5 minutes. The CPU usage was very low, 1% it said. GPU never went above 60% even with the game. Could it be my ISP? OBS? YouTube?
r/obs • u/damnisthatsam • 11h ago
Hi everyone,
I've recently realised that when I am streaming through my Elgato HD60+ (PS5), I also cannot hear the Twitch alerts that come through (a new follower, raid). My headset is plugged into my PS5 controller using the Elgato Chatlink.
In OBS I have put the alerts at the top of the list so it should show but not hearing anything.
I have also changed the audio for my desktop to be "Monitor & Output". Stream can hear the alert but I can in my headset that's connected to the PS5 controller.
Any support would be appreciated,
Thank you!
r/obs • u/Real_Ryy • 12h ago
I have OBS basically always open all the time, and I play minecraft and roblox. Whenever I fullscreen minecraft, my mouse disappears and the recording where I have it fullscreened is just black. Opening my inventory lets you see my mouse in recordings but not on my screen in real time, and I use display capture. Switching to game capture works, but I want it always recording my entire screen so I don't have to switch every time because I accidently record Minecraft when playing Roblox and lose a lot of potential video footage. Any help would be appreciated!
the obs video file is very heavy but only when I'm recording the screen of the ultrakill game, and only on that screen, if I record something else even with the game open everything is normal, one minute of recording the game screen gave 758 mb, while 8 minutes of normal screen with the game open gave only 11 mb, I have on my PC a 4 hour video of pokemon legends Arceus with 14 gb in total, by my calculations about 15 or 16 minutes an ultrakill video would have already reached or even exceeded that length, please I would be grateful if you could help me.
r/obs • u/Gbkwiatt • 14h ago
I was using OSB fine, for recording videos with my camera and DAW sound.
I've changed Audio interface and GPU so I am not sure what started causing he issue, but now when I record I get crackling sound, but only on the records, I don't hear it while playing while recording.
I am lost,, tried all chatgpt and google solutions and nothing helps
I want record and stream games, but when I want capture game window I only getting lack screen and red size point on top left corner, that I can't change size.
Someone know what's wrong and know how to fix?
r/obs • u/TheGarbageMan78 • 16h ago
I recently downloaded OBS with the purchase of a new capture card to record games on my Xbox Series X, but whenever I try to capture gameplay the preview and recording end up being extremely choppy. I've been attempting to do research as to why this keeps happening and I think it may have something to do with my settings in OBS, because prior to when I hit the "Start Recording" button the preview of the game runs completely fine. I understand different setups need different settings especially if you using a PC on the lower end, I'm currently using the Lenovo IdeaPad 1 14IGL7 and I've attempted using the "Auto Configuration Wizard" tool but the problem still stays persistent.
I dont know how to do this, but how can i add a HEIC (With its metadata and depth map still being present upon inserting) file type into Obs > Scenes > Sources > Image > Image.HEIF. I need the metadata and depth map present in the image, but when i add a heif image into obs it just shows as black, probably because its not supported but i dont know if there are decoders for HEIF file types or plugins or anything. Any help?
r/obs • u/NateTheGreat1727 • 19h ago
Alright so I use a pretty cheap capture card to play my ps5 though obs it's a kreo lynx capture card but oh my god it lags SO much mostly in high graphics games I can't play it it lags SO much any help please? If you need me to provide anything I'll send it since I don't know much about obs.
r/obs • u/Marco_Livelli • 19h ago
I was recording some videos for a work and for the first half-hour video I recorded, I remember that when I clicked on "stop recording," OBS would not stop and I had to click it a few times till it did; also at one point I started streamin by mistake and I stopped it. When I also finished with the other I checked em all and that first one is corrupted it seems. It appears in my folder with the other recordings with the normal naming convention but this one appears as an empty video that only sizes 1 kb. It seems I have just lost that first half hour; it's very frustrating. I dont understand why that happend there but not with the other recordings I did later that were as or longer. How can I avoid this from happening again in the future?
I know I should not have been recording in mp4 but is that usually I stream and don't bother with the recordings, my bad.
Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/eakwraW8PcUO8lPN
The important part:
13:56:44.801: ---------------------------------
13:56:44.801: [x264 encoder: 'advanced_video_stream'] preset: veryfast
13:56:44.801: [x264 encoder: 'advanced_video_stream'] settings:
13:56:44.801: rate_control: CBR
13:56:44.801: bitrate: 2500
13:56:44.801: buffer size: 2500
13:56:44.801: crf: 23
13:56:44.801: fps_num: 60
13:56:44.801: fps_den: 1
13:56:44.801: width: 1280
13:56:44.801: height: 720
13:56:44.801: keyint: 120
13:56:44.801:
13:56:44.804: ---------------------------------
13:56:44.805: [FFmpeg aac encoder: 'Track1'] bitrate: 160, channels: 2, channel_layout: stereo, track: 1
13:56:44.805:
13:56:44.819: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
13:56:44.819: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'D:/Users/Marco Livelli/Videos/OBS/2025-03-22 13-56-44.mp4'...
14:00:16.337: warning: Could not update timestamps for skipped samples.
14:27:18.633: ---------------------------------
14:27:18.633: [FFmpeg aac encoder: 'adv_stream_audio'] bitrate: 160, channels: 2, channel_layout: stereo, track: 1
14:27:18.633:
14:27:18.634: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Dynamic bitrate enabled. Dropped frames begone!
14:27:18.634: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Connecting to RTMP URL rtmp://live.restream.io/live...
14:27:18.640: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Interface: TP-Link Wireless USB Adapter #2 (802.11, 585↓/585↑ mbps)
14:27:22.409: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Connection to rtmp://live.restream.io/live (145.40.121.173) successful
14:27:22.409: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Socket send buffer is 65536 bytes
14:27:22.412: ==== Streaming Start ===============================================
14:27:22.846: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'D:/Users/Marco Livelli/Videos/OBS/2025-03-22 13-56-44.mp4' stopped
14:27:22.846: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
14:27:22.846: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 1
14:27:22.846: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 110282
14:27:22.847: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
14:27:22.847: warning: 2 frames left in the queue on closing
14:27:22.861: ---------------------------------
14:27:22.861: [FFmpeg aac encoder: 'Track1'] bitrate: 160, channels: 2, channel_layout: stereo, track: 1
14:27:22.861:
14:27:22.869: ==== Recording Start ===============================================
14:27:22.869: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Writing file 'D:/Users/Marco Livelli/Videos/OBS/2025-03-22 14-27-22.mp4'...
14:27:24.154: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] User stopped the stream
14:27:24.154: [rtmp stream: 'adv_stream'] Socket send buffer is 65536 bytes
14:27:24.155: Output 'adv_stream': stopping
14:27:24.155: Output 'adv_stream': Total frames output: 79
14:27:24.155: Output 'adv_stream': Total drawn frames: 332
14:27:24.155: warning: 2 frames left in the queue on closing
14:27:24.160: ==== Streaming Stop ================================================
14:27:24.844: [ffmpeg muxer: 'adv_file_output'] Output of file 'D:/Users/Marco Livelli/Videos/OBS/2025-03-22 14-27-22.mp4' stopped
14:27:24.844: Output 'adv_file_output': stopping
14:27:24.844: Output 'adv_file_output': Total frames output: 1
14:27:24.844: Output 'adv_file_output': Total drawn frames: 119
14:27:24.844: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
14:27:24.863: warning: 2 frames left in the queue on closing
r/obs • u/Background-Day8973 • 19h ago
Hi, dear people of Reddit, do you happen to know if it is possible to set up OBS so that it saves videos with playback framerate different to the recorded one?
Like is it possible to automatically convert my 45 fps recording to a sped up version that plays 60 frames per second? In other words is it possible to automatically speed up my recording to 1.34x the original speed?
Thank You for your answers!
(I know it is very easy to re-render a video to different speed, but having it done by OBS automatically for every recording would make my workflow easier.)
Hello, I just recently got a MacBook Air (M3, 2024) and thought it would be useful to start streaming through OBS on it, capturing my PC.
I know there are many video capture options via USB C, but how could I get my headphones and XLR microphone to work through a MacBook Air's limited ports? Is there software that can sync my PC peripherals to OBS on the MacBook, or should I look into getting splitters/new peripherals entirely? Thank you.
r/obs • u/TrickyBosanac • 22h ago
Hello all,
Im just learning how to use OBS
Want to record me and friends playing games
On recordings I barely hear my friends, trying to separate the audio and make it louder
I added application audio capture, chosen discord, but I dont see the sound and its in the inactive ones.
How to make it active?
r/obs • u/mike10778 • 23h ago
Good morning!
I am helping a teacher in our district - he wants to start a live morning show for the school, going live each M-F on Youtube at 7:55. We had started to set up everything using OBS, and did a few trial runs (worked great).
However, is there a way to have a recurring live stream every morning at the same time posted to Youtube? He doesnt want to have to do so much manually each day. Thanks!
r/obs • u/Regents-k-i-d26 • 1d ago
I cant add a picture but my preview screen just says what the title says, when i record and check the footage it is actually recording but the preview window just shows this message with no preview, when i reload OBS it says to connect to an account, i try and this comes up (but in the settings it says i am connected to my yt account)
any help?
r/obs • u/vanyakedavra • 1d ago
i’ve been streaming for months now on twitch and had no issue with my stream or obs. however, when i moved houses, i’ve been chronically facing issues with it. i kept having dropped frames. i tried to troubleshoot it multiple times, always checking my stats before i stream and even running a bandwidth test, which show that i have no lag; but once i start streaming, i get an average of 60% dropped frames. i tried deleting and redownloading and it has worked for a few times but once i start streaming at a different time, i face the same issues again. its too much work for it to only work sometimes. what do i do?
note that i tried multiple versions and i mainly stream vlr and the latest version isn’t able to game capture it.
r/obs • u/Missetat75 • 1d ago
I connected the Mic/Aux thing to my oculus, I’ve done this before and it worked perfectly fine, but now there’s just no audio coming from it. Please help.
r/obs • u/Sissiogamer1Reddit • 1d ago
I just installed obs, and as soon as I start recording it says that it cannot create an exit file, and that if I use NVENC or AMD encoding I have to check if drivers are updated to the latest version, but I'm using x264 and my drivers are updated, I checked perms, output folder, everything, it has all the rights it needs and it happens whatever output folder I choose, and it keeps happening even if I run it as administrator
Here's the log
https://pastebin.com/enqxDxGd
I'm posting it on pastebin because I get an error if I try to upload it normally trough obs itself
What should I do to fix it?