FFMPEG problems with real-time buffer

Question

I'm trying to use FFMPEG (Windows) to encode a stream from a video capture card via dshow and send to a RTMP server. THis is my command line;

    ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="AVerMedia BDA Analog Capture Secondary":audio="Microphone (6- C-Media USB Audi" -vf scale=1280:720 -vcodec libx264 -r 30 -rtbufsize 702000k -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 128k -pix_fmt yuv420p -tune zerolatency -preset ultrafast -f flv "rtmp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/stream/key"        ffmpeg version N-86950-g1bef008 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
    built with gcc 7.1.0 (GCC)
    configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-dxva2 --enable-libmfx --enable-nvenc --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable
    -libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenh264 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspe
    ex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib
    libavutil      55. 70.100 / 55. 70.100
    libavcodec     57.102.100 / 57.102.100
    libavformat    57. 76.100 / 57. 76.100
    libavdevice    57.  7.100 / 57.  7.100
    libavfilter     6. 98.100 /  6. 98.100
    libswscale      4.  7.102 /  4.  7.102
    libswresample   2.  8.100 /  2.  8.100
    libpostproc    54.  6.100 / 54.  6.100
    Guessed Channel Layout for Input Stream #0.1 : stereo
    Input #0, dshow, from 'video=AVerMedia BDA Analog Capture Secondary:audio=Microphone (6- C-Media USB Audi':
    Duration: N/A, start: 2035.202000, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo (YUY2 / 0x32595559), yuyv422, 720x480, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 10000k tbn, 10000k tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 1411 kb/s
    [dshow @ 00000000005f90e0] real-time buffer [AVerMedia BDA Analog Capture Secondary] [video input] too full or near too full (68% of size: 3041280 [rtbufsize parameter])! frame dropped!
    [dshow @ 00000000005f90e0] real-time buffer [AVerMedia BDA Analog Capture Secondary] [video input] too full or near too full (90% of size: 3041280 [rtbufsize parameter])! frame dropped!
    [dshow @ 00000000005f90e0] real-time buffer [AVerMedia BDA Analog Capture Secondary] [video input] too full or near too full (113% of size: 3041280 [rtbufsize parameter])! frame dropped!
    Last message repeated 46 times
    Stream mapping:
    Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo (native) -> h264 (libx264))
    Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (pcm_s16le (native) -> mp3 (libmp3lame))
    Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
    [dshow @ 00000000005f90e0] real-time buffer [AVerMedia BDA Analog Capture Secondary] [video input] too full or near too full (113% of size: 3041280 [rtbufsize parameter])! frame dropped!
    [libx264 @ 0000000005b16640] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX FMA3 BMI2 AVX2
    [libx264 @ 0000000005b16640] profile Constrained Baseline, level 3.1
    [libx264 @ 0000000005b16640] 264 - core 152 r2851 ba24899 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2017 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=0 ref=1 deblock=0:0:0 analyse=0:0 me=dia subme=0 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=0 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=0 8x8dct=0 cqm=0 deadzone=2
    1,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=0 threads=11 lookahead_threads=11 sliced_threads=1 slices=11 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=0 weightp=0 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=0 intra_refresh=0 rc=crf mbtree=0 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ra
    tio=1.40 aq=0
    [dshow @ 00000000005f90e0] real-time buffer [AVerMedia BDA Analog Capture Secondary] [video input] too full or near too full (113% of size: 3041280 [rtbufsize parameter])! frame dropped!
    Past duration 0.999992 too large

The buffer too full message are non-stop. I can use Open Broadcast Software (OBS) and stream with no problem (I'm pretty sure it also uses ffmpeg), so I'm doing something wrong.

Regular

Answer 1

Increase the input buffer size.

ffmpeg -f dshow -rtbufsize 100M -i ...

Acidic

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, even if I do try and change the buffer size with that same command, it still gives me an error; never accepting the command and keeping the size: 3041280 – Regular

Run the command with -report and rtbufsize and share the report. – Acidic

As shown in my answer, rtbufsize goes before the input name since it applies to inputs. – Acidic

Yep. just fixed that. It took the change, So now I'm still getting the same error, but it just takes about 10 seconds before it starts doing it: pastebin.com/ygj4hide pastebin.com/GmrmxBgP – Regular

Instead of streaming elsewhere, save the output to FLV file and check. – Acidic

Answer 2

I know this is a long time from the original posting, but I ran into the same problem. I fixed it by making the buffers even larger.

ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel info -stats -thread_queue_size 4096 -f dshow ^ -video_size 1920x1080 -rtbufsize 200M -thread_queue_size 10M ^ -i video="FHD Capture":audio="Digital Audio Interface (3- FHD Capture)" ^ -y E:\Capture\Test3.mkv

Now I just have to get it to work with a QSV (Intel) acellerated codec.

Martingale