Need help with OBS & Picarto

punkarsenic 2017-01-21 23:17:48 UTC #1

today i tried streaming on picarto, using OBS for the first time. i just got the key and went, didnt change any settings. i hit upon some problems:

firstly, how to i prevent lag / have as little lag as possible? it was severely lagged so id say something, and wait about 5 seconds to hear it on the stream. i imagine this is partially due to my computer / internet speed / OBS but is there anything i can change to help this?

related to this, i couldnt play music and talk at the same time, as ive seen other streamers do. any sound the computer made was picked up by the mic and echoed over and over and over in the stream - similarly, sounds i made were echoed over and over. is there a way to fix this without resorting to headphones and muting chrome?

alaingrey 2017-01-21 23:25:08 UTC #2

all streams have a delay! Picarto is shorter than Twitch's 15 second delay, and there's nothing you can do. It's built into the sites. The only way to stream without delay is through a Google hangout with friends.

You'll have to do headphones/headphone mic probably to get rid of a lot of the echo. Gaming headsets are great for streaming, and you'll also have to be sure your stream is muted on your computer so you aren't getting the 5 second delay echo either.

shazzbaa 2017-01-21 23:43:39 UTC #3

Seconding alaingrey -- a delay is normal (5 seconds ain't bad at all!), and if you're recording sound then you gotta not listen to your own stream if you don't want the stream to hear itself and echo it over and over and over. I usually just mute the stream itself rather than muting Chrome!

It sounds like once you're not listening to your own stream, it should take care of most of your audio problems? I've streamed without headphones before (back before I had figured out how to have headphones on and still pick up music), and the sound quality suffers a lil bit but everyone could hear me fine.

Honestly though, as far as headphones, I just use those white headphones that come with iphones/ipods -- they've got a lil mic in them -- and they work fine! Since I'm on a mac, I just run Soundflower to get it to also pick up the sounds I'm hearing (so that it'll play my music over the stream).

punkarsenic 2017-01-22 12:00:11 UTC #4

@alaingrey @shazzbaa thanks for clearing this up, both of you!