Multistreamer cant resume when OBS disconnects about multistreamer

[jprjr]

This is something I've had happen a few times, and it is really, really tricky.

So basically, if you get a network hiccup, you've got a few things that can happen:

• The ffmpeg processes can die (I'm not sure what the default ffmpeg timeout is)
  • this is partially mitigated with version 11.1.0, since it will try to restart ffmpeg a few times
• The RTMP module can decide that OBS has timed out, and close the connection

The RTMP module closing the connection causes the most frustration. When that happens and OBS eventually reconnects, the follow things happen:

• The RTMP module calls "on-done", indicating the stream is over
• It then immediately calls "on-publish", which triggers all the stream-setup stuff. On YouTube and Facebook, this can create a new event.

I think (though I'm not entirely sure) that this can be controlled a bit with the ping and ping_timeout directives, here: https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/wiki/Directives#ping - but the behavior can still get pretty weird.

I'll have to experiment some more. It seems like shorter outages (<= 30 seconds) are fine now that ffmpeg will try restarting a few times.

[pogzie]

OBS was able to recover, but none of the stream was unable. Let me know if you need more logs or info.

[jprjr]

Yeah, I'm not sure what to do on this issue. I created short network hiccups (~10 seconds) and everything recovered fine. Any longer, it seems like no matter what combination of timeout, ping_timeout, etc -- either OBS never succesfully reconnects, or the RTMP module winds up calling "on-done" followed by "on-publish", which ends existing videos and starts new ones. I don't have a good way to detect a dropped connection vs somebody actually clicking "end stream" in OBS.

There's a bit of a work-around on the Facebook module - you can choose a pre-existing live video and uncheck "End live video when stream ends" - I wrote that specifically for a time I did a 24-hour marathon stream on Facebook, so I could disconnect/reconnect.

Implementing similar functionality in the YouTube module wouldn't be too hard. But for both the Facebook and YouTube modules, you'd have to create the event first on Facebook/YouTube, then log into Facebook/YouTube when you want the video to end instead of just ending the stream in OBS.

[k1ck3r]

not sure if this helps you, but the issue can't be reproduced with Xsplit

[pogzie]

This happened again when my network connection got knocked out. My PC (gaming, OBS) is separate from my Multistreamer server. I had to stop/start the stream from OBS.

I think the only info I got was I waited for it if it would recover but after a minute i decided to just restart the OBS stream.

[jprjr]

I've been considering discontinuing this project for some time now. I'm sorry I couldn't solve your issue, but I just don't enjoy working on multistreamer anymore.