
Yet Another Wirecast Random Audio Fail
I have a background audio file playing on a loop under my shots and for no explainable reason on my stream yesterday the audio just randomly stopped looping.
Here it is working: https://youtu.be/JRBcSVc7rUU?t=998 if you watch from there on it just stops playing.
No shot change by me, nothing changed within the stream itself, just WireCast falling over itself yet again.
Frustrating!!!
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PaulM Hmmmm, yes that is true, but the more strain you put on the system to play an uncompressed file the more chance you are gonna see the dreaded 85% RED ALERT!
For instance, if I playback a 4K local video file on my stream Wirecast spits the dummy, but the same file at 1080? Fine. Same scenario (too a lesser degree) with .mp3 vs .wav
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4K is a strain on most systems no matter what. Besides the decoding overhead, you run into memory bus bandwidth constraints. You chew up a good chunk of your time just copying the decoded data up to the GPU. Then the GPU has to wrestle with all that data. Wirecast does more with it's data than most media player apps like VLC or Kodi. Avoid 4K when possible.