YouTube OBS streaming help needed.

yourkingsley · 29 Jun 2023 at 02:46

Hi,

Streaming live directly from OBS studio to YouTube.

I’ve tried live streaming to YouTube directly from OBS studio but despite following advice and looking at posts etc my stream is still totally out of sync when appearing on my youtube stream, it’s fine on the OBS display screen as it’s all in sync so for example if I wave i can see myself waving but for those watching my youtube stream there’s about a 20 second delay until they see me waving.

The reason why I want to stream directly from OBS studio to YouTube is because it’s easier to add images to my live streams but with having the delay issue it’s pointless.

Streaming live directly from YouTube live.

My YouTube live stream works perfect and is all in sync but I can‘t seem to add images to my YouTube live streams via OBS if I’m streaming directly from YouTube but streaming directly from OBS to YouTube I can get images to appear on my live stream.

If I’m streaming directly from YouTube live is there a way to add images to my live YouTube streams through OBS? Or is there another way I can add images into my live YouTube streams?

sorry for being a pain and hope this post makes sense I just get a bit confused due to a brain injury, but thank you for taking the time to read my messag.

best wishes
karl.

Rroff · 29 Jun 2023 at 05:31

IIRC YouTube on default settings has around 20 seconds delay as normal, you need to adjust the latency setting but that can require adjusting other settings and/or losing features - a YouTube rather than software limitation/problem.

yourkingsley · 29 Jun 2023 at 13:32

Rroff said:
IIRC YouTube on default settings has around 20 seconds delay as normal, you need to adjust the latency setting but that can require adjusting other settings and/or losing features - a YouTube rather than software limitation/problem.

Thank you I’ll give it a go

MouthBoy · 4 Jul 2023 at 23:10

What setting do you have selected for streaming resolution? If I stream 4k there is a large delay, but 1080p its about 3sec, 1440p about 5sec.

Ch3m1c4L · 11 Jul 2023 at 22:29

What do you mean out of sync? Audio/video is out of sync, or do you mean there is a delay from you doing anything and the rest of the world seeing it?
Regardless of how you do it, different users see everything with different delays, can be up to a minute when there are no issues. Simply refreshing a page can lower this a lot, 0-40secs is often platform/codec/conversion/actual distance etc.
Youre never going to get much below 5 seconds beyond the ones watching at source quality(no converting going on) settings and having refreshed their view relatively recently, the delay will slowly increase due to minor glitches in i/o of the streams at every step. So even if you're watching your stream on your phone and think oh it's only 2 seconds delay, someone else might be watching with 30 seconds delay.

There is a setting on YouTube on the creator studio iirc, where you choose low latency mode. Maybe it's when starting a stream and choosing the settings.
There might also be one in the encoder options in obs after you've selected the appropriate YouTube choice for .264 or hevc/av1 and go to the stream settings page.
OBS + services tend to default to 10 to 30 seconds delay as it allows more time for bandwidth spikes/drops jitters glitches etc to be smoothed out.

I'm curious though, it is just interaction with chat, and reacting with images in some way or something else that is requiring super low latency?