a6500 settings for Live Streaming

[topherkai]

Sorry if this isn't in the right forum, but I was hoping to ask for some group wisdom here.

I use the a6500 for live streaming to Facebook through a platform called OBS. But I'm having some glitches because (I think) I'm pumping out too big of a signal.

What settings would you suggest to reduce the workload?

[Chrissie]

13 hours ago, topherkai said:

What settings would you suggest to reduce the workload?

Any setting that gives you a smaller bitrate than what you've currently set. "Bitrate" are those funny Mbps values in the linked document.

You will anyhow be limited by the smallest bandwidth of either WLAN, LAN, switches, routers and/or bandwidth as supplied by your internet connection, which may be part of the total transmission chain.

[topherkai]

Awesome, so based on the document linked I could start streaming at:

• MP4 file format
• 30p/25p
• 6 Mbps

for a 720/30p 6M output, correct?

I'll give it a shot to make sure it's not to pixelated.

Thanks!

 

[Chrissie]

10 hours ago, Chrissie said:

What settings would you suggest to reduce the workload?

Well, since you were asking how to reduce, and I didn't know where you had started out from, I could only give you this general hint. But your selection

13 minutes ago, topherkai said:

• MP4 file format
• 30p/25p
• 6 Mbps

is in fact the lowest that's documented in the help guide. Good luck! Maybe you can let us know how it finally worked out.