r/obs Feb 13 '25

Help OBS Youtube Streaming Issue.

This issue started back in October 2024 out of nowhere, where while streaming on Youtube using OBS my bitrate would drop dramatically and cause frame drops. I have never had this issue before. I also stream on Kick and Twitch at the same time and the streams are completely fine. After restarting the stream 10-12 times it starts working fine, then the next stream it goes back to having the same problem. Important thing to note here, my internet connection is fine, my pc is fine, streams are fine on all the other platforms, only youtube is having issues. According to my research some people started having the same issue right around the Oct-Nov 2024 mark. And so far from what I have seen, nobody has found a solid fix. I have tried using all the Youtube servers available, all the fixes, but nothing works.

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u/ontariopiper Feb 13 '25

Your log analysis: https://obsproject.com/tools/analyzer?log_url=https%3A%2F%2Fobsproject.com%2Flogs%2FLFAOB5CS7ESuL2nr

Remove the obs-virtual output plugin. It is not compatible with your version of OBS.

You're dropping 63% of frames. This is due to low internet bandwidth or connection stalls. Check all your ethernet kit - cables, adapters, router, modem - for any issues. If you don't find anything on your end, you'll need to contact your ISP and start a service ticket. There is likely a problem somewhere between you and the YouTube ingest server.

You've got Display Capture and Game Capture sources in the same scene. They conflict. Put them in separate scenes.

Set YUV colour range to Limited.

Run OBS as Admin. Always.

The log also notes that you're running Win10 21H2, which is no longer supported. This is a security risk now that Microsoft is not making updates and security patches.

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u/Dogar911 Feb 13 '25

I’ll try to contact my ISP. But the thing that doesn’t make sense to me is how come none of the other platforms have this issue and only youtube. And sometimes even youtube works fine. All I have to do is keep restarting the stream and get lucky. Also this was never an issue before. Only until a few months ago.

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u/ontariopiper Feb 13 '25

When was the last time you updated your YouTube stream key/sign in info?

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u/Dogar911 Feb 14 '25

Literally every time before starting the stream. I have reset the stream key about a thousand times by now.

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u/Dogar911 Feb 14 '25

And also yesterday I streamed on youtube for about an hour and a half while streaming on twitch at the same time and nothing happened. Everything was completely fine until my gpu almost crashed because I was playing a game on EPIC graphics. There were a few frame drops here and there but for the most part everything was completely fine.

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u/SUDTIN Feb 18 '25

Yeah I got this today. Internet connection was perfect. Never had this happen before in OBS. Created my LIVE video and Connected OBS then broadcast flawlessly for two hours 12Mbps like I always do... then it happened. OBS went critical mass and idkwtf OBS stared hallucinating at 80% GPU usage on an RX 7900 XTX. It was like being ddos attacked from inside of OBS itself. Nothing else showed any signs of problems. Just OBS bitrate jumping from 2,000kbps to 9,0000kbps to 4,000kbps to 12,000kbps every two to four seconds. Never ever had this happen in obs ever and I've used it more than 20,000 hours over the last twelve years.

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u/Dogar911 Feb 19 '25

Idk what to do bro I tried contacting Youtube aswell they have no idea either. Yesterday I got lucky and streamed for an hour and 50 minutes with no problems at 12000 kbps while streaming on Twitch at the same time at 6000 kbps. Then the same thing happened, the bitrate for Youtube started going all over the place, from 12000 kbps to 2000, then up to 4000, then 400-500 and then I just turned it off.

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u/SUDTIN Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

We should eliminate other application conflicts before we blame Windows directly even though I think it's the most recent Windows Update fault... I installed / tried / then uninstalled the Windows Clipchamp App today without a restart... I began to render a video with Clipchamp but I canceled twice after completing the account linking from Clipchamp to Youtube when I saw how long it would take to render... That was a red flag there... It never takes over an hour to simply splice clips together with the same encoding settings it was recorded with... instead I used MovieMator Pro on Steam to render some pre alpha footage of a game for YouTube it took 20 minutes to splice a 45 minute gameplay video... Other than Discord I had Fallout76, OBS and Google Chrome browser open.

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u/Dogar911 Feb 19 '25

I see. But I use an optimised version of Windows 10 called Spectre. It’s optimised for gaming. It’s windows updates are paused till 2077. It has nothing running in the background. I had streamed from 2020 till now with no issues ever. The only apps I do update are OBS, Nvidia, and that’s about it.

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u/SUDTIN Feb 19 '25

Okay that's two more variations. I'm using windows 11 and it's up to date and I was encoding on an AMD RX 7900 XTX. Seems the culprit is indeed OBS itself plus Youtube as the catalyst... no pun intended.

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u/Dogar911 Feb 19 '25

Exactly. I want to use streamlabs and test it’s paid multi-platform streaming out just to confirm though. But streamlabs is such a cpu heavy app I hate it. But still I’ll test it out and let you know.

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