The remux tip is a lifesaver! Been relying on Handbrake this whole time and I kept forgetting that was a step I needed to do before jumping into editing. Thanks!
Dude wow dynamic bitrate adjustment I've never heard of. My ISP is Starlink so my internet is never stable this should help me drastically. I've watched at least a few hundred OBS vids and have never seen this. Also note you published this vid 2 years ago and I'm just now seeing this. Gonna start fazing out all the other OBS tips from other youtubers and find the info I need from your channel from now on! Thanks bud
The "double click to change scenes" works best with the multiview. Multiview is also a VERY nice feature, especially when the show is fully set-up and you just have to change scenes with only a double-click (well... That's AFTER you press on start streaming :D ) and the best reason is that, if you have multiple scenes, you can see them live all at once.
Looking forward to the 'optimising OBS layouts' stream - especially if it covers organising non-OBS windows on the screen too, like having Chatty on top of OBS.
Note that "Dynamic Bitrate Adjustment" should never be enabled if you are using a hardware encoder (eg NVENC) as they can lock up with frequent bitrate adjustments and your stream will completely crash. EDIT: this is no longer true in the latest version of OBS.
oh wow, I started this video thinking it would be a fun little video but I would know it all but most of this stuff I did not know. An actual useful video
Thanks EposVox! A bunch I already had setup but I did NOT have my OBS to launch automatically on Administrator...I thought I did...and that is fixed now xD. Thanks!
ur videos honestly saved my ass so many times, the best feature is the dynamic bitrate for me. by any chance do you know why my OBS randomly drops to 0kb? happens from time to time and I gotta end task to restart it properly
I've had an issue lately for the past week that i get encoding lag when my gpu isnt running anything else. I can stream no problem but I have problems recording even at lower settings in my game. I tried recording a reaction to music video but i have skipped frames for no reason and its in admin mode
hey epos … can you make or do you have a video that explains, why youtube streaming and twitch streaming differ so much in terms of the quality outcome while jaing the exact same settings? picture quality is perfect in 720p on twitch but streaming to youtube is super blocky, blurry and pixelated.
Twitch copies the source video stream, which is why they have (semi) strict requirements on what your bitrate/resolution is. RUclips transcodes everything, including source, to AVC or VP9, which is why they don't have strict limits. Therefore, the 1080p video stream is generally awful since they need a low cost, real-time solution for that. They don't want to waste money on good encoding that is not perceivable to most people, afaik. Usually it's best to push 1440p or 4K to RUclips since those resolutions are encoded in higher bitrates and usually VP9 (which in RUclips's case is higher quality). Though, that's assuming you can push something like 20+ Mbps upload. I'd personally do at least 30 Mbps for 1440p and 60 Mbps for 4K, but you can test for what you need, especially if it's 24/30 FPS versus 50/60 FPS. People usually avoid the scaling feature in the output settings since it doesn't work right and doesn't have a scaling filter. I would suggest either upscaling your output to 1440p/4K in the video tab or setting your base and output to 1440p/4K and rescaling your sources. This will have a larger strain on rendering and encoding lag though, but NVENC can help with that. It also has the benefit of higher resolution for smaller sources, like a 1080p webcam in the corner will look cleaner/sharper. As an aside: One thing that I never thought about was trying to push H265 to RUclips via NVENC on StreamFX. They accept H265 video uploads, so I wonder if they support that for streaming too.
@@DarkSwordsman I tried streaming 1440p60 to youtube with 14Mbps but the end result is still worse then twitch. I can not get higher though. after a few months now I will swihch back to twitch i think. was thinking epos may have some advice.
@@sissiwasabi Yeah. If you had more bandwidth to spare I would totally recommend 30-40+ Mbps, but if you can't then yeah, Twitch may be the move if you care about quality. My only gripe is that Twitch's growth potential alone is pretty awful. RUclips does a great job with their algorithm and recommending people videos. So Twitch + RUclips clips is good, and then discord/twitter is useful too, I think.
Sorry to bother you but I am literally at wits end. I run with OBS and Elgato. Basically my gameplay and recording audio isn't right or not as good because either the elgato is not pick up and I have to constantly fiddle with settings to get the audio back. Then there's this random PC where the game capture audio comes out of recording. If you don't disable it, you are still hearing game audio and not from OBS. It's wierd.
I use OBS to stream to my own RTMP server (nginx). It's on the same network, separate PC, and I notice that at certain times the bitrate will go to zero and the stream indicator will turn red. Other times, it will stream for hours without an interruption. I tried running as admin, but OBS never starts up--it just causes Windows Explorer to hang. I am wondering if TCP Pacing option will fix the problem. I'm not streaming to an outside network, just another PC on the same network (that PC is my web server and nginx is the one actually serving my stream over the internet. The thing I can't understand is why OBS stream rate goes to zero and why opening a web browser with my stream and refreshing the page causes OBS to start streaming again. I thought OBS streaming to an in house server RTMP would be unaffected by the client connections on the other side of the RTMP server.
There is no limits to your knowledge, Professor Vox 😉👍 Awesome, high value content as always Thank you very much for the tips! P. S., love those headphones! I don't even want to know (I secretly do want to know) how much they cost 😉.
🐶🐶🐶 HELP!! For some reason I have to go into Advanced audio preferences and hit Monitor off then monitor on for my audio to work my end. It is very inconvenient since I have a lot of audio/ video effects. Do you have a fix to this in OBS studio? Keep crushing it!!
@05:00 Thats fine and all, but this feature did not work and threw a lot of errors to me in the past on my .mkv files that were also recorded with OBS. Thats the reason I stick with MP4.
When I want to record my stream this way, is there a way to make it so the different audio tracks are recorded AS different audio tracks, so I can upload videos elsewhere (i.e. like facebook gaming, so I can remove the music so I don't get copyright hits when using streambeats)??
The recordings from either "Recording" or "Replay Buffer" in OBS have the slightest jitteriness to them on playback, whereas Shadowplay is flawless and smooth. Problem is, Shadowplay only supports 2 audio tracks, and I'm in need of 3: Game Sound, Discord, My mic voice. Does anyone know how to solve this with OBS?
In regards to the part about the remuxing MKV to MP4. You don't have to do it this way as there is a manual way to do it instead under File. That way you aren't creating double video files, and instead only doing it when you need to import it into a video editor. You can easily drag multiple files into it.
@@EposVox I think he's saying if you do it automatically, every video you record will be doubled, even if you don't intend on editing it. But by doing it manually, you only create doubles when needed for the files you're going to edit.
For the VOD recordings....how will that impact performance for those of us who don't have 2 PC stream setup or even the most robust of PC's? Anyone tried it?
In my experience just having OBS studio open will drop a game say valorant from running at a steady 120-144 fps to me having to cap it at 90 to keep it smooth. Other than that recording, streaming etc even at the same time doesnt do anything more in regards to fps
It does, but it doesn’t. It’s pretty bad with audio cutting out being the most common issue. It’s not a good time. Premiere ran into a similar problem when they tried implementing MKV support a couple years ago and they quickly disabled it.
Oh, wow. I really need to look into that render lag fix. I upgraded my PC and still have issues with some of my software. Can this fix problems with other programs as well?
Hello Epos do you have any issue while use NVIDIA broadcast its makes gpu run at high core clock and this lead to high temps at idle. Many report this still nothing from nvidia side.
well, i think it happens depending on which resource you're using, because I've noticed that some of them still uses some cuda cores, and maybe that's why the clocks go higher
Is it a viable option to use HAGS and the “admin” implementation at the same time? I remember I did so back when HAGS was first introduced in the Windows build, and my game (Gears 5) felt as responsive as it does when I’m not streaming it. I was unaware at the time of their use-case scenarios, but it was always an interesting moment nonetheless. Not sure if this is a counter-intuitive implementation, but it was extremely surprising to have a faster feeling game when streaming. Thanks for the vids man!
AFAIK HAGS is basically an early tech preview and you shouldn't enable it unless you're using an application that requires it. Turning it off dramatically improved system stability for me when editing in Premiere, for example.
@@TechnicalGamingChannel for Gears 5 in particular, HAGS enables a smoother experience. I’ve tested ON and OFF, without streaming, and the game definitely responds better with it ON. And I could’ve sworn that there’s been developed optimizations for the option, for OBS in particular, ever since it’s release?
@@EposVox no normal is default. it guarantees that the at least the cpu will serve obs first. not sure if it also helps with gpu allocation but at least it doesnt hurt to put obs priority to high
The remux tip is a lifesaver! Been relying on Handbrake this whole time and I kept forgetting that was a step I needed to do before jumping into editing. Thanks!
Dude wow dynamic bitrate adjustment I've never heard of. My ISP is Starlink so my internet is never stable this should help me drastically. I've watched at least a few hundred OBS vids and have never seen this. Also note you published this vid 2 years ago and I'm just now seeing this. Gonna start fazing out all the other OBS tips from other youtubers and find the info I need from your channel from now on! Thanks bud
The "double click to change scenes" works best with the multiview.
Multiview is also a VERY nice feature, especially when the show is fully set-up and you just have to change scenes with only a double-click (well... That's AFTER you press on start streaming :D ) and the best reason is that, if you have multiple scenes, you can see them live all at once.
Looking forward to the 'optimising OBS layouts' stream - especially if it covers organising non-OBS windows on the screen too, like having Chatty on top of OBS.
Note that "Dynamic Bitrate Adjustment" should never be enabled if you are using a hardware encoder (eg NVENC) as they can lock up with frequent bitrate adjustments and your stream will completely crash.
EDIT: this is no longer true in the latest version of OBS.
do you know if this is still the case?
@@spacepillow It is not! Dynamic bitrate with NVENC is fine now.
@@R1CH Ah, thank you! Trying to troubleshoot a buddy's issues, I'm glad I can cross that setting off the list. Thanks for the quick reply ^_^
Thanks a lot. You seem really have found your life passion, which inspires. All the useful content aside.
7 in the title, 8 in the timecodes. LOVE IT!
EDIT: Oh I've been bamboozled! Well played EposVox sponsor. Well played.
;) technically some of them had 3 in 1 anyway
oh wow, I started this video thinking it would be a fun little video but I would know it all but most of this stuff I did not know. An actual useful video
Thank you very much for these little tips. 😊 Also I'm really happy with the Asus capture card. It works very well 😌.
Awesome tips. Thanks dude!
Thanks EposVox! A bunch I already had setup but I did NOT have my OBS to launch automatically on Administrator...I thought I did...and that is fixed now xD. Thanks!
solid video
Always such useful tips. Specially for new streamers like myself. Thanks!
Just had to reinstall windows on my Computer and installed OBS and forgot to do the Run as Admin thing. So thank you. :)
Great video as always thank you
ur videos honestly saved my ass so many times, the best feature is the dynamic bitrate for me. by any chance do you know why my OBS randomly drops to 0kb? happens from time to time and I gotta end task to restart it properly
There’s also a shortcut argument to start replay buffer when launching OBS even without streaming or recording
Awesome tips Professor Man!
Thank you for a great OBS update!
I've had an issue lately for the past week that i get encoding lag when my gpu isnt running anything else. I can stream no problem but I have problems recording even at lower settings in my game. I tried recording a reaction to music video but i have skipped frames for no reason and its in admin mode
hey epos … can you make or do you have a video that explains, why youtube streaming and twitch streaming differ so much in terms of the quality outcome while jaing the exact same settings? picture quality is perfect in 720p on twitch but streaming to youtube is super blocky, blurry and pixelated.
Twitch copies the source video stream, which is why they have (semi) strict requirements on what your bitrate/resolution is. RUclips transcodes everything, including source, to AVC or VP9, which is why they don't have strict limits. Therefore, the 1080p video stream is generally awful since they need a low cost, real-time solution for that. They don't want to waste money on good encoding that is not perceivable to most people, afaik.
Usually it's best to push 1440p or 4K to RUclips since those resolutions are encoded in higher bitrates and usually VP9 (which in RUclips's case is higher quality). Though, that's assuming you can push something like 20+ Mbps upload. I'd personally do at least 30 Mbps for 1440p and 60 Mbps for 4K, but you can test for what you need, especially if it's 24/30 FPS versus 50/60 FPS.
People usually avoid the scaling feature in the output settings since it doesn't work right and doesn't have a scaling filter. I would suggest either upscaling your output to 1440p/4K in the video tab or setting your base and output to 1440p/4K and rescaling your sources. This will have a larger strain on rendering and encoding lag though, but NVENC can help with that. It also has the benefit of higher resolution for smaller sources, like a 1080p webcam in the corner will look cleaner/sharper.
As an aside: One thing that I never thought about was trying to push H265 to RUclips via NVENC on StreamFX. They accept H265 video uploads, so I wonder if they support that for streaming too.
@@DarkSwordsman I tried streaming 1440p60 to youtube with 14Mbps but the end result is still worse then twitch. I can not get higher though. after a few months now I will swihch back to twitch i think. was thinking epos may have some advice.
@@sissiwasabi Yeah. If you had more bandwidth to spare I would totally recommend 30-40+ Mbps, but if you can't then yeah, Twitch may be the move if you care about quality.
My only gripe is that Twitch's growth potential alone is pretty awful. RUclips does a great job with their algorithm and recommending people videos. So Twitch + RUclips clips is good, and then discord/twitter is useful too, I think.
Sorry to bother you but I am literally at wits end.
I run with OBS and Elgato. Basically my gameplay and recording audio isn't right or not as good because either the elgato is not pick up and I have to constantly fiddle with settings to get the audio back.
Then there's this random PC where the game capture audio comes out of recording. If you don't disable it, you are still hearing game audio and not from OBS.
It's wierd.
I use OBS to stream to my own RTMP server (nginx). It's on the same network, separate PC, and I notice that at certain times the bitrate will go to zero and the stream indicator will turn red. Other times, it will stream for hours without an interruption.
I tried running as admin, but OBS never starts up--it just causes Windows Explorer to hang.
I am wondering if TCP Pacing option will fix the problem. I'm not streaming to an outside network, just another PC on the same network (that PC is my web server and nginx is the one actually serving my stream over the internet.
The thing I can't understand is why OBS stream rate goes to zero and why opening a web browser with my stream and refreshing the page causes OBS to start streaming again. I thought OBS streaming to an in house server RTMP would be unaffected by the client connections on the other side of the RTMP server.
There is no limits to your knowledge, Professor Vox 😉👍
Awesome, high value content as always
Thank you very much for the tips!
P. S., love those headphones! I don't even want to know (I secretly do want to know) how much they cost 😉.
Why I am unable to flag some option such Dynamically change bitrate ?
🐶🐶🐶 HELP!! For some reason I have to go into Advanced audio preferences and hit Monitor off then monitor on for my audio to work my end. It is very inconvenient since I have a lot of audio/ video effects. Do you have a fix to this in OBS studio?
Keep crushing it!!
and how to always keep the replay buffer enabled?
so I can press a hotkey to save the last X seconds as a video without recording or streaming
@05:00 Thats fine and all, but this feature did not work and threw a lot of errors to me in the past on my .mkv files that were also recorded with OBS. Thats the reason I stick with MP4.
I love these setting videos!
Studio mode works wonders when I have to refresh a browser source from a stacked source
Replay buffer saved my hard drive
When I want to record my stream this way, is there a way to make it so the different audio tracks are recorded AS different audio tracks, so I can upload videos elsewhere (i.e. like facebook gaming, so I can remove the music so I don't get copyright hits when using streambeats)??
Multiple audio tracks are covered here ruclips.net/video/nd739DyqSV4/видео.html
The recordings from either "Recording" or "Replay Buffer" in OBS have the slightest jitteriness to them on playback, whereas Shadowplay is flawless and smooth. Problem is, Shadowplay only supports 2 audio tracks, and I'm in need of 3: Game Sound, Discord, My mic voice. Does anyone know how to solve this with OBS?
In regards to the part about the remuxing MKV to MP4. You don't have to do it this way as there is a manual way to do it instead under File. That way you aren't creating double video files, and instead only doing it when you need to import it into a video editor. You can easily drag multiple files into it.
Erm… you still have double files. When you do it manually it still leaves the MP4 there. This is just quicker to do it automatically for you
@@EposVox I think he's saying if you do it automatically, every video you record will be doubled, even if you don't intend on editing it. But by doing it manually, you only create doubles when needed for the files you're going to edit.
For the VOD recordings....how will that impact performance for those of us who don't have 2 PC stream setup or even the most robust of PC's? Anyone tried it?
In my experience just having OBS studio open will drop a game say valorant from running at a steady 120-144 fps to me having to cap it at 90 to keep it smooth.
Other than that recording, streaming etc even at the same time doesnt do anything more in regards to fps
So, running OBS as admin prioritizes GPU to OBS...while "Settings > Advanced > General > Process Priority" prioritizes CPU to OBS, is that right?
Correct
Wasn't it also that Game Mode needed to be enabled for the rendering lag issue? I just remember that for some reason.
Game Mode paired with Admin. Game Mode isn’t quite as important
@@EposVox Oh I see. I guess it was more that OBS *wasn't* supported under Game Mode so now it's okay to have it on.
Good work
And thank you for the help. Your videos have helped me with my setup. Cheers
Welp had everything you listed but replay remux 🤦 thank you
By the way, with Davinci Resolve in 17.2, you don't need to remux to mp4 anymore. It supports MKV format now.
It does, but it doesn’t. It’s pretty bad with audio cutting out being the most common issue. It’s not a good time.
Premiere ran into a similar problem when they tried implementing MKV support a couple years ago and they quickly disabled it.
What a life saver! Thank you EposVox
Oh, wow. I really need to look into that render lag fix. I upgraded my PC and still have issues with some of my software. Can this fix problems with other programs as well?
Just OBS.
what headphones are you using
Davinci Resolve doesn't need to remux MKV now.
In case anyone use Resolve and doesn't know that.
You can edit of MKV directly.
It’s a real bad experience right now, however. As was the case with Premiere before they removed support for it
@@EposVox Hm, I haven't edited enough MKV video to encounter any problem with it.
Holy headphones, dear lord those are massive. Trying to hear what pluto sounds like with those? xD
What are your headphones?
the auto remux is huge. thanks. i like vid c:
Nice headset!
Hello Epos do you have any issue while use NVIDIA broadcast its makes gpu run at high core clock and this lead to high temps at idle. Many report this still nothing from nvidia side.
well, i think it happens depending on which resource you're using, because I've noticed that some of them still uses some cuda cores, and maybe that's why the clocks go higher
Actually nvidia has addressed the issue on twitter many times and they say they're working on fixing it.
@@designgears its been almost year since nvidia broadcast launch .I know they work pocket tennis 👎more then drivers
Is it a viable option to use HAGS and the “admin” implementation at the same time? I remember I did so back when HAGS was first introduced in the Windows build, and my game (Gears 5) felt as responsive as it does when I’m not streaming it. I was unaware at the time of their use-case scenarios, but it was always an interesting moment nonetheless. Not sure if this is a counter-intuitive implementation, but it was extremely surprising to have a faster feeling game when streaming. Thanks for the vids man!
AFAIK HAGS is basically an early tech preview and you shouldn't enable it unless you're using an application that requires it. Turning it off dramatically improved system stability for me when editing in Premiere, for example.
@@TechnicalGamingChannel for Gears 5 in particular, HAGS enables a smoother experience. I’ve tested ON and OFF, without streaming, and the game definitely responds better with it ON. And I could’ve sworn that there’s been developed optimizations for the option, for OBS in particular, ever since it’s release?
@@joselaba it’s a your mileage may vary thing that depends on the use case
What camera does he use?
A DSLR with some sort of USB camera link interface.
Sooooo... my enciding error while streaming more than likely 7 days is probably due to not using admin... awesome..
noice!
Forgot process priority high....
That’s usually default and not really useful anyway
@@EposVox no normal is default. it guarantees that the at least the cpu will serve obs first. not sure if it also helps with gpu allocation but at least it doesnt hurt to put obs priority to high
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My video editor supports MKV so there's no need to remux :)
which one?
MKV isn’t great for editing so even when editors add support for it, performance is usually better with MP4 container.
Lol