YorVeX
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1 year ago I figure this is mostly my fault for not putting a template here saying this when creating an issue, but for 90% of issues people encounter with Beam I will need a log of both the sender and receiver to be able to investigate what's going on. This will also provide lots of other information that I need, like operating system (and distro/version), OBS version, Beam version, OBS resolution and color format and so on.
In your case, please do a fresh start of both sender and receiver OBS, let it run and transmit a feed for a few minutes, then exit both OBS instances, restart, and upload the previous logs from both OBS instances:
Also I am not familiar with connections of two PCs through Thunderbolt, it's very interesting for me though (and probably for others who want to do lossless raw transmission with Beam), can you give me more information on that? A quick Google search just told me there is something called "Thunderbolt Networking", is that what you're using?
I assume in the system these appear like network adapters? And since you said this is only meant for OBS, am I right that
- you have other standard Ethernet or Wi-Fi network adapters in addition for your normal home network and Internet access?
- you specifically selected the Thunderbolt network adapters in Beam for both the sender and receiver, to ensure the Beam feed is actually sent through this network and not through your normal (e.g. Wi-Fi) adapter?
To rule out a bug in Beam interface selection, do you have a way of verifying that the feed is actually sent through this Thunderbolt connection? If it's Windows, you should see all interfaces in the Task Manager, the big amount of traffic during an active Beam feed should be visible on the Thunderbolt interface. E.g. for me I have this virtual interface and my Wi-Fi interface, so I could say where exactly the traffic is flowing:
It would also be interesting to see how much traffic you see there. When you test with Beam in raw mode we could also compare the traffic that would be expected vs. what you see in the measurements. Maybe something is wrong with that Thunderbolt connection and it doesn't provide the bandwidth it should.
Naruske
So not sure how this is happening. I have a beefy laptop, AC powered. It is connected to my game PC through a Thunderbolt to 10Gbit connection. The game PC has a USB 3.2 gen 2 to 5Gbit connection. It's only configured for OBS, so nothing else is on that network.
With compression or without compression it seemingly stutters every couple of seconds, sometimes 2, sometimes 10.