It wouldn’t be Lunch Trance if everything worked, right?
Yesterday I noticed that the Windows MacBook was starting again, like nothing ever happened. I don’t want to say that I was ecstatic but due to performance reasons I would like to keep using it because on macOS OBS for some reason is unbearably slow. (And it crashes if you try to connect it to your Twitch account.)
However, I did like all the new background videos and the programming I did around that so I copied that all over to the Windows machine and set up OBS. Still looks nice!
Tonight I sat down, started the Windows machine again and did a test stream. 1080p60, almost sub-1 millisecond frame rendering times, just like one would expect from video material that is basically almost free to render.
I let it run a bit and went into the kitchen to feed the cats.
By the way, the new cat gets more and more cuddly which is awesome! 😻 However, there’s still some tension between the old and the new cat; they’re getting closer to each other all the time but they both are still wary of the other one. Time will fix that, I’m sure!
Anyway, I also fixed myself some little dinner snack and then came back to the Windows machine and immediately felt like breaking things, many things, and with lots of force. The encoder was suddenly dropping everything it was handed!
I checked the configuration and noticed that OBS wasn’t using the usual encoder anymore; instead of the Intel H264 Hardware Encoder it was using the AMD H264 Hardware Encoder. Theoretically I don’t really care which one it uses as long as it works but what was worrying was that the Intel encoder didn’t even show up in the list anymore… which means more debugging, probably somewhere around the EFI area of the MacBook. Not looking forward to that.
In the meantime the macOS machine was a viable backup solution so I fired that up again and while that one was still dropping 10% of the frames because of rendering lag, it did manage to hardware-encode the stream and send it out to the world where you were then able to watch it and listen to it. Amazing! 🎉
During my show I did get a raid by Pisces1, thank you very much for that! ❤️
Next week a show may or may not happen as my wife and I will be vacationing at the Baltic Sea once more. I don’t yet know how much stuff I want to take with me so I guess I’ll decide that on Sunday when it’s time to pack. 😀
There will, however, definitely be a show on Wednesday, December 7, at 🕖 19:00 CET/UTC+1.
You can download the show here, and this is the playlist:
| Offset | Artist | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00:00 | Sunny Lax | Dance with Me |
| 00:06:10 | KhoMha, Markus Schulz | Take Me |
| 00:09:43 | ALPHA 9, Jonathan Mendelsohn | Down to Love |
| 00:12:19 | Farius | Coming Up (Hold On) |
| 00:15:52 | LÜRUM | Eccentricity |
| 00:20:48 | Sunny Lax | Emerald |
| 00:24:53 | Nicholas Gunn, Raeya, Richard Durand | Not Afraid |
| 00:29:48 | HALIENE | Underneath My Skin (Nifra Remix) |
| 00:33:10 | Peetu S | Halloween |
| 00:37:55 | Fisher, George Acosta | True Love (Billy Gillies Remix) |
| 00:42:19 | Lange | God Loves the Truth (Club Mix) |
| 00:47:08 | Pierre Pienaar, That Girl | Home |
| 00:51:04 | Darren Best | Reflections |
| 00:55:55 | Elevven, Sarah Mark | Shallow (Daniel Kandi Remix) |
| 00:59:37 | John Askew | People Are Strange |
| 01:04:12 | Paul Skelton | Farewell For Now |
| 01:09:44 | Ahmed Romel | Serene |
| 01:15:01 | Kenny McAuley | Dreamworld |
| 01:19:11 | Simon Patterson | Voodoo |
| 01:23:20 | Billy Hendrix | Body Shine (Will Rees Remix) |
| 01:28:49 | Ciaran McAuley, Jeff Rona, Lisa Gerrard | On an Ocean |
| 01:33:26 | Ralphie B | Massive (Steve Dekay Remix) |
| 01:37:02 | Alex M.O.R.P.H., Rene Ablaze | Tulum |
| 01:41:40 | Talla 2XLC | Can You Feel the Silence Reloaded |
| 01:46:13 | Peter Steele, Theia Vee | Sanctified |
| 01:51:21 | BiXX, Christina Novelli | Putting out Fires |
| 01:56:06 | Arctic Moon, Jessica Lawrence | Like the Sun (XiJaro & Pitch Remix) |
| 02:01:49 | BT | Flaming June (Dan Thompson Remix) |
| 02:06:24 | Susana | The Dark Side of the Moon (Stoneface & Terminal Dark Mix) |
| 02:11:29 | Mark Sherry | The Release |
| 02:15:57 | Factor B | Innerspace (Club Mix) |
| 02:21:19 | Kenny Palmer | Believe You Can |
| 02:27:18 | Spy, Yelow | The Force |
| 02:31:19 | Smith & Brown | Tardus |
| 02:35:40 | Frank Waanders, Ralphie B | Fata Morgana |