diff --git a/plugins/obs-outputs/rtmp-stream.c b/plugins/obs-outputs/rtmp-stream.c
index 7c1eeb4388483189bd1b23eded07721d4ff71562..3b214113d34e781e4b9c0495107572901e921355 100644
--- a/plugins/obs-outputs/rtmp-stream.c
+++ b/plugins/obs-outputs/rtmp-stream.c
@@ -89,10 +89,17 @@ static void log_rtmp(int level, const char *format, va_list args)
 	blogva(LOG_INFO, format, args);
 }
 
+static inline size_t num_buffered_packets(struct rtmp_stream *stream);
+
 static inline void free_packets(struct rtmp_stream *stream)
 {
+	size_t num_packets;
+
 	pthread_mutex_lock(&stream->packets_mutex);
 
+	num_packets = num_buffered_packets(stream);
+	info("Freeing %d remaining packets", (int)num_packets);
+
 	while (stream->packets.size) {
 		struct encoder_packet packet;
 		circlebuf_pop_front(&stream->packets, &packet, sizeof(packet));