Unique "stutter" issue

dalokz

I've been trying for weeks to stream on twitch.tv now, and everything does indeed work flawlessly except for this one thing.

Here goes!

When I'm streaming live.. about 95% of the time when viewing my own
stream I will see massive stuttering, almost like buffering and it
doesn't go away.
I don't have any in-game lag whatsoever, nor does the vod afterwards lag. - I can also view any of the other streams on twitch without any problems



I've tried streaming on own3d.tv to test this and everything works fine there.

This is not a "too high bitrate" issue, as I've tried to lower that all the way from 200-3000.

I'm sitting on a 30/30 connection and a top of the line i7 cpu, so it is neither my cpu or my connection - (I can stream top notch quality on own3d)

So being from Denmark, I'm streaming to Frankfurt and London, however every single location I try seems to have this issue, so I doubt it's related.

I've seen other europeans and Danes streaming flawlessly to twitch, so it can't really be a routing issue? can it?

I'm at a loss, any help would be greatly appreciated!

havokk

Have you run the built in bandwidth test on XSplit? Try a couple different server locations and paste the results here.

dalokz

I've run a lot of them at all kinds of different bit rates - These are with a bit rate of 2500

Frankfurt Primary:

Trying to stream maximum data rate of 2596 kbps...
Initializing transmission to server... (100%)
Average data rate during 1077 ms: 2589 kbps...
Average data rate during 2100 ms: 2708 kbps...
Average data rate during 2024 ms: 2627 kbps...
Average data rate during 2100 ms: 2586 kbps...
Average data rate during 1076 ms: 2387 kbps...
Average data rate during 2100 ms: 2571 kbps...
Average data rate during 2101 ms: 2753 kbps...
Average data rate during 2098 ms: 2505 kbps...
Average data rate during 2200 ms: 2571 kbps...
Average data rate during 2200 ms: 2573 kbps...
Average data rate during 2100 ms: 2685 kbps...
Average data rate during 2103 ms: 2640 kbps...
Average data rate during 2097 ms: 2504 kbps...
Average data rate during 1099 ms: 2590 kbps...
Average data rate during 2101 ms: 2682 kbps...
Done.
Average data rate: 2598 kbps.
Dropped frames: 0

London Primary

Initializing transmission to server... (100%)
Average data rate during 1046 ms: 2462 kbps...
Average data rate during 2048 ms: 2733 kbps...
Average data rate during 2152 ms: 2507 kbps...
Average data rate during 1045 ms: 2716 kbps...
Average data rate during 2095 ms: 2580 kbps...
Average data rate during 2106 ms: 2562 kbps...
Average data rate during 2054 ms: 2654 kbps...
Average data rate during 2199 ms: 2539 kbps...
Average data rate during 2100 ms: 2562 kbps...
Average data rate during 2145 ms: 2771 kbps...
Average data rate during 2155 ms: 2475 kbps...
Average data rate during 2102 ms: 2690 kbps...
Average data rate during 2052 ms: 2517 kbps...
Average data rate during 2083 ms: 2716 kbps...
Average data rate during 1063 ms: 2378 kbps...
Done.
Average data rate: 2591 kbps.
Dropped frames: 0

To keep spam down I'll leave it at that, these come out YELLOW.

However even when it's GREEN outside peaking hours (or if I lower the bitrate) the stutter remains the same

Streaming to anywhere else pretty much makes it RED, so that's kinda out of the question

havokk

Do know for sure if your viewers see the lag or just you?

dalokz

I've tried it with a few friends (also from Denmark) and some reports stutter. I've had like 1 time where one said it was completely fine, but I'm pretty sure that was a lucky attempt as it stutters on 95% of the attempts I've done - Would be cool to test this with someone in the U.S to get some sort of confirmation however

havokk

Reason I brought it up is because this issue (Read recap, last post by Fire) might be related. If you would like someone (USA) to test that I would be happy to if the timing is right.

dalokz

That sounds a lot like the same thing, it does indeed freeze for anywhere between 2-8 seconds constantly and afterwards "teleport" up to where I am after that stutter/freeze is over.



If you would like to test this out with me that would be super awesome. 

havokk

I am in you channel now if you can do it tonight.

Edit: Confirmed, No lag for US viewers but issues persist for EU viewers.