Date: 2022/05/24 - Owncast, ressources & the old pc - Themes: owncast, streaming, tech topic

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Setups

Yesterday i streamed 6 hours, and later that day, i was wondering if the X220's limitations can be pushed further.
See, the Intel Graphics chipset is way too old to be named GPU (not detected as one either). The highest config i pushed up is 2400kbps, CPU: Highest (take a wobbly 75-80% on cpu), @30fps

Finetuning the beast

Later i tried more setups to have more or less stable stream.I found that an update reset some of my OBS user preferences such as use NVENC for encoding.
I tried more and more fine tunings then i decide to fall for video passthrough settings. everything was ok-ish. i can stream kinda fast stuff not 60+ fps but fairly fast such as 30-60 fps without getting too much blurriness. I decided i also should rework every scene. To match the test setup i did to the final result.

Chapter 3

That should be ok to stream some fast paced music games such as Guitar Hero, Stepmania and Rocksmith which is my goal. The last one has some issues with audio cracking sometimes i'll troubleshoot this when it'll become an inevitable problem. In other hand i still cannot have a steady 1080@60fps, i'm sure that is the bottleneck from server since it's possible on Twitch. But the idea is here: What are really the server requirements to have 720@60fps then 1080@60fps.

ystrbag & DirtyDozen & ipad & others

For now, stuff works. the screen mirroring is doing great, scaling down my stream sources too. I still do not meet my goals of screen resolutions and frames per seconds (steady numbers) in closed environement, but i'm near.