There were technical difficulties
Mar. 22nd, 2026 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyEverything was going great yesterday-until right before I went online, when I possibly clicked on something wrong, or maybe the problems that failed to make themselves apparent during the test recording just decided to show up on their own. I spent half an hour struggling to get the stream to work. The game audio wasn't playing, and the audio I was getting instead was appalling, and repeating itself at points, or maybe that was just the stream in general, I'm no longer even sure. I gave up in tears.
After venting in one of my discords, something suggest I ask for help in the OBS discord. So I did. They gave me a couple of pieces of advice that helped, probably most notably muting the audio from my webcam. But the game audio is still muting whenever I try to do anything with the OBS, and will almost certainly still do so when I try to do so with Twitch's control page, and their only suggestion for that was that I try to control those remotely, which honestly does not sound realistic. Also their analyzer is still claiming one of my audio devices has a sample rate that doesn't match the rest, and with the webcam muted I can't find any that aren't at 48000 Hz. And while the audio doesn't sound terrible anymore, it's lost volume, and still doesn't sound all that great, and I've heard all too much about how you need it to be good.
I'm tempted to just take today off from trying to deal with it. Go see the cherry trees in DC, maybe, since the ones in the neighborhood are finally blooming. I don't know if I'm even going to try to stream next weekend, but I might aim to make a second go at it the weekend after that.
After venting in one of my discords, something suggest I ask for help in the OBS discord. So I did. They gave me a couple of pieces of advice that helped, probably most notably muting the audio from my webcam. But the game audio is still muting whenever I try to do anything with the OBS, and will almost certainly still do so when I try to do so with Twitch's control page, and their only suggestion for that was that I try to control those remotely, which honestly does not sound realistic. Also their analyzer is still claiming one of my audio devices has a sample rate that doesn't match the rest, and with the webcam muted I can't find any that aren't at 48000 Hz. And while the audio doesn't sound terrible anymore, it's lost volume, and still doesn't sound all that great, and I've heard all too much about how you need it to be good.
I'm tempted to just take today off from trying to deal with it. Go see the cherry trees in DC, maybe, since the ones in the neighborhood are finally blooming. I don't know if I'm even going to try to stream next weekend, but I might aim to make a second go at it the weekend after that.
