Question / Help Twitch tv stream lagging

[Odeanathus]

Hello there and let me start by thanking who ever helped maintaining and/or creating this wonderfull project.

Coming from Xsplit (paid) i found it wonderfull to find a program for free which does the same and in some aspects does more (hell it might not look flashy but then again, neither do I ;-))

I've been streaming on a horrible quality for a while, however having gotten Fiber (75mbit up and down) since 2 days I wanted to up the quality some. Currently set it to 1920x1080 with a bitrate of 5000kbps to twitch I get 0 Dropped Frames. However people looking at the stream are getting "freezes".

Is this because I'm streaming with a bitrate that's to high, or because there is some client problem?

Basically is this something I should/could remedy or is this a problem from Twitch -> The user which I can't really fix.

 

[Krazy]

Generally bitrates above 3000 is where you start having a decent number people complaining about stream lag/freezes. 5000 bitrate is overkill for just about every game you play. What are you streaming?

 

[Odeanathus]

Generally bitrates above 3000 is where you start having a decent number people complaining about stream lag/freezes. 5000 bitrate is overkill for just about every game you play. What are you streaming?

Just generally some WoW raiding mostly for my own members but i'll try toning it down to 3K then hopefully that'll do the trick.

 

[Odeanathus]

Turns out 3K still gave some stutters, 2500 seemed okay apperently so I'll try that out tomorrow.

 

[warcode]

A lot of this is twitch servers being terrible.

If you see the colored icon in the bottom right corner of OBS going to yellow and red all the time at a bitrate of 5000 or below, try using a different one.

You could also stream at 720p to achieve a better quality stream while staying below 5000.

 

[Odeanathus]

A lot of this is twitch servers being terrible.

I kinda had that feeling ye, is there any alternative that might be better? (Only really know twitch personally).

Although People didn't complain about 2,5K it's not to big a problem I'd just rather not have the other end beeing the bottleneck ^^

 

[WayZHC]

Well i don't think their servers are bad but the amount of streamers on twitch has been rapidly increased so their servers are on extreme stress. I'm sure there will be upgrading coming to the server hw but it might take a while. Also in my opinion everything above 720p like 1080p with 5000Kbps bitrate is just stupid (for now) since flash (player) sucks bad. I have 20 downstream connection and still sometimes got lag spikes caused by the flash player.