Help playing a Playlist of media files
I'm trying to do a VOD replay and want to access and automatically play a Playlist of media files in OBS. Everything I'm finding is only for a single file
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Install vlc. Use vlc source
Yep
itll allow playlists within obs?
Yes
main thing is i need two diffent vid files playing at the same time
ill play with it, thanks peeps might have been overthinking it
just to circle back, im playing a 1080p MP4 and 4k MP4 file at the same time with VLC Plugin, the 1080p plays fine but the 4k hitches. source profiler isnt showing any high usage and task manager doesnt even register any percentage for encode/decode. VLC even plays the file directly with no issue, just struggles within OBS
Does the 4k file play fine using media source instead of vlc source? Can you share that file so I can test on my end?
yea let me upload to drive and send a link
ill test media source in a bit, pc is currently in mid render so cant get an accurate reading till its done
oddly worse with media source with both hardware decode on and off
Ah av1
That's likely why. That seems to struggle with both vlc source and media source in obs
damn ill have to setup a hevc set then just for vod purposes and save the av1 for editing
Alright gonna experiment but figure I share the use case if anyone wants to provide feedback on areas to improve. Using the 4070 Ti to do TEB at 3 ladders, I had it at 5 but dropped 2 just to get things more dialed in, top ladder is 4k with bottom 2 being 1080p and 350p. I record the Gameplay separately at 4k and the camera at 1080p. Both is AV1, ill post screenshots of the settings once back at the PC, since OBS struggles to play back AV1, I'll be recording the Gameplay and Camera together with no overlays at 4k HEVC, can lower to 1440p or 1080p as needed. The plan is to record a "VOD" to be played back so I can do like a previously on stream type thing before I continue what I'm doing. Originally I was intending to playback the Gameplay and Camera separately but as stated earlier the gameplay struggles to playback due to AV1
AV1 is very demanding to decode still
yup, i learned the hard way :LUL:
Welcome to the club
sadly even the 40 series cards couldnt handle it
https://obsproject.com/logs/DTOsQrSqZfvSOYY5
@Exeldro looks like i caused a crash when trying to start a source record after i was live
Do you also have the OBS log file of that session for me to look at?
https://obsproject.com/logs/LiNWMzVUN9xlpzO1 should be this one
brain fart my bad
Thank you, I will investigate in an hour or so
no probs, i dropped all three record to hevc instead of 4k av1, 1080p av1, and hevc 1440p if that helps
not sure why but this week has nothing but encoder overload, main stream was encountering 86% encoding lag