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We have spent quite a bit of time testing configuration, tactics and techniques to reduce or, better yet, eliminate this issue. We frequently use OBS, Open Broadcaster Software, for our live streaming and depending on conditions and factors mentioned above, we will run into audio latency and lag issues.
#SOUND DELAY PROBLEM USING OBS STUDIO SOFTWARE#
This may well be our naivety, our lack of knowledge or hardware or a wrong configuration but it’s not for a lack of looking! 3rd Party Broadcast & Production Software (OBS) We have an AMD5 gaming machine with “souped-up” video adapters, and while this machine is awesome for graphics it does not encode (stream) audio or video very well. We have not applied any science to these tests or observations but our observations are machines should be quad-core or better, 2.4 GHZ or higher with 8MB of RAM and preferably, at least in our case, Intel and not AMD. The last significant factor for latency is machine type. Audio Latency – Machine (Laptop or Desktop) Performance Between 5-10 Mbps, the digital USB microphone will lag typically behind by 300-600 Mbps (sometimes less) and above 10 Mbps there is very little or negligible lag. Our findings are that between 2-5 Mbps upload speeds, digital USB microphones severely degrade and lag behind by anywhere from 600-2000 Mbps. The second biggest factor in our research is bandwidth or network speed. Audio Latency – Bandwidth or Network Speed If you are wondering, why not simply use a one-channel analog microphone, the quality of the digital microphone is FAR SUPERIOR to the analog, so you are essentially sacrificing latency for quality or vice-versa. While the one-channel analog microphone performs with absolutely no lag, the digital USB Yeti Microphone will have considerable lag. We use a Yeti USB stereo microphone simultaneous to an one-channel analog microphone (lavalier or lapel) and there is a HUGE difference in terms of latency. microphones you plug into USB, transmit much more data than an analog microphone. Analog)Įxternal digital microphones, i.e.
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Anyone well versed in live streaming is certainly aware of the issue. Typical audio latency can be as small as a few hundred milliseconds and fairly negligible or may be thousands of milliseconds and completely sabotage your live stream. Live Streaming audio latency is when your audio is not synchronized with your video. What is Live Streaming Audio Lag, or Latency?