Confused... Log analyzer gives advice, twitch inspector is happy

[GoingDutchman]

Hi.

My game is butterly smooth on screen, but the Twitch stream and VOD shows some hickups. Not that big, but not smooth. Being a perfectionist, I started an investigation.

Log analyzer gives no critical issues and no warnings. Only a Blue info: "Your stream encoder is set to a video bitrate that is too low. This will lower picture quality especially in high motion scenes like fast paced games. Use the Auto-Config Wizard to adjust your settings to the optimum for your situation. It can be accessed from the Tools menu in OBS, and then just follow the on-screen directions."

When I look at the Twitch inspector, it gives me: "configuration check: Excellent. No recommended changes!" and "stable @ 6,005 Kbps"

NVidia RTX4090, Intel i11700K. OBS CPU at about 2%. Used encoder NVENC, H2.64. Video bitrate set at 6000 Kbps. Streaming 1080p at 60FPS. During streaming (for hours) zero dropped frames (0.0%). OBS 31.0.3 Flatpack. OpenSuse Tumbleweed up-to-date, Wayland two monitors, both capped at 60Hz. M2 SSD drive.

I am slightly confused. Why is the log analyzer saying: "video bitrate too low" but is Twitch inspector quite happy.
And, IF log analyzer is right, what would be the desired bitrate for Twitch? As I am already at 6000Kbps, which is (i believe) Twitch maximum.

And... any idea why I still see tiny stutters in live stream and VOD, although Twitch inspector shows green flags.

Attached the logfile. Am I allowed to give you the Twitch URL to the video, so you can see it yourself?

Just curious what to do now ;)

 

[ImNotAStarfishTTV]

Hi.

My game is butterly smooth on screen, but the Twitch stream and VOD shows some hickups. Not that big, but not smooth. Being a perfectionist, I started an investigation.

Log analyzer gives no critical issues and no warnings. Only a Blue info: "Your stream encoder is set to a video bitrate that is too low. This will lower picture quality especially in high motion scenes like fast paced games. Use the Auto-Config Wizard to adjust your settings to the optimum for your situation. It can be accessed from the Tools menu in OBS, and then just follow the on-screen directions."

When I look at the Twitch inspector, it gives me: "configuration check: Excellent. No recommended changes!" and "stable @ 6,005 Kbps"

NVidia RTX4090, Intel i11700K. OBS CPU at about 2%. Used encoder NVENC, H2.64. Video bitrate set at 6000 Kbps. Streaming 1080p at 60FPS. During streaming (for hours) zero dropped frames (0.0%). OBS 31.0.3 Flatpack. OpenSuse Tumbleweed up-to-date, Wayland two monitors, both capped at 60Hz. M2 SSD drive.

I am slightly confused. Why is the log analyzer saying: "video bitrate too low" but is Twitch inspector quite happy.
And, IF log analyzer is right, what would be the desired bitrate for Twitch? As I am already at 6000Kbps, which is (i believe) Twitch maximum.

And... any idea why I still see tiny stutters in live stream and VOD, although Twitch inspector shows green flags.

Attached the logfile. Am I allowed to give you the Twitch URL to the video, so you can see it yourself?

Just curious what to do now ;)

Same exact thing, all looks good on my end but the analyzer is saying I'm too low

 

[Armorthavins47]

Yeah, I get what’s going on here your setup is beastly, so the actual bottleneck isn’t your hardware. That “video bitrate too low” info from OBS is basically generic advice; OBS doesn’t know you’re already hitting Twitch’s max of 6000 Kbps. Twitch Inspector is giving the correct picture—you’re maxing out what Twitch allows for 1080p60.

In short: you’re doing everything right. If you really want, you could test higher bitrates via RTMP ingest on a private server, but for Twitch 1080p60, 6000 Kbps is the sweet spot. The small stutters are mostly out of your hands.