Mac's aren't my area of expertise, so there may be something I'm not aware of, but in general Whether your Mac would do the same I can't answer, and if yes, whether performance when throttled would be adequate would depend on your specific setup

And in those cases (Windows side, if not low-end consumer junk laptop), the system/CPU will throttle eventually to keep from shutting down. I've never heard of a laptop that will have battery go down during usage UNLESS the power supply is too low wattage. Run the laptop off battery, get down to 10-20%, plug it in and do so test streaming and see what happens. So if you are unsure of device behavior when battery runs out, test it. Standard rule of tech (and most things in life) is to test before critical activities. the extent of the battery life impact varies on specific usage and charging scenarios). You may be wearing out the battery and its life is reducing (which is expected. Have you been monitoring hardware hardware resource (CPU, GPU, RAM, etc) utilization?įood for thought - I get gaming stream at 60fps, but most other video isn't replayed in slow motion, so why stream at 60fps? there are some scenarios I can imagine, but you'll reduce load if you cut frame rate in 1/2. Real-time video encoding is VERY computationally demanding. I'd be glad to give any other information I may have missed. What's a good alternative for a dedicated Mac for streaming? I'm not opposed to buying another one if needed but would like to stay in the apple family since the rest of my company is using all apple products. The only complaint is the battery life while streaming. No buffering, very little wait time loading different things. So is this to be expected? Everything runs great. I usually stream to YouTube at 1080 60fps and between 4000-5500 bitrate. Plus a Behringer audio interface for sound. (Each running a camera or capturing another computers video output).

I can only assume it does.ġ6 inch 2019 with a 2.4 GHz 8-core intel core I9,Īlso using between 1-4 Magewell capture cards. I've never gotten down to less than like 20% before the event ended, so I can't really say if the computer will actually turn off or not when the battery says 0%. I'm not too sure if I've been losing battery ever since I started streaming from this Mac, or if I'm only just now noticing. My events are usually around 2-3 hours but I have some bigger/longer events coming up this summer and now I'm starting to get concerned. Lately I've noticed that my Mac is loosing battery faster than it can charge while streaming. Hello, I've been using OBS to stream different events for about a year now.

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