diff --git a/plugins/obs-outputs/rtmp-stream.c b/plugins/obs-outputs/rtmp-stream.c
index 9cb1b50d1..ca1919a7a 100644
--- a/plugins/obs-outputs/rtmp-stream.c
+++ b/plugins/obs-outputs/rtmp-stream.c
@@ -1041,6 +1041,7 @@ static int try_connect(struct rtmp_stream *stream)
 
 	// on reconnect we need to reset the internal variables of librtmp
 	// otherwise the data sent/received will not parse correctly on the other end
+	memset(&stream->rtmp, 0, sizeof(stream->rtmp));
 	RTMP_Reset(&stream->rtmp);
 
 	// since we don't call RTMP_Init above, there's no other good place