YouTube bitrate problem

[ZipurGamign]

I record videos at 108060, with a bitrate of 10.000 in OBS. They look fine. But as soon as I watch it back on YouTube, it looks like absolute mud. How do I fix this?

 

[Frag Maniac]

Refer to this thread I answered, all the info you need is there.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3746731/vbr-cbr-cqb-lossless-gamplay-recording-1080p.html

It basically comes down to YouTube's conversion bitrate for 1080 uploads being a 1/3 or less than that for 1440 uploads. It's also part of what is making 1440p displays so popular.

YouTube recommends 12,000 bitrate for 1080p uploads, but most of what makes them look crappy is the low bitrate they convert it to after you upload it.

Just capture via ShadowPlay or Relive at 50mb/s, then resize to 1440p and compress to 30Mb/s in Avidemux before uploading. It will make them look WAY sharper.

The only caveat is the upload will take longer due to being 3 times the file size, but not too bad if you have a fast ISP and short video. On my 7Mb upload speed I can usually upload a 10 minute video in under an hour.

 

[ZipurGamign]

Refer to this thread I answered, all the info you need is there.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3746731/vbr-cbr-cqb-lossless-gamplay-recording-1080p.html

It basically comes down to YouTube's conversion bitrate for 1080 uploads being a 1/3 or less than that for 1440 uploads. It's also part of what is making 1440p displays so popular.

YouTube recommends 12,000 bitrate for 1080p uploads, but most of what makes them look crappy is the low bitrate they convert it to after you upload it.

Just capture via ShadowPlay or Relive at 50mb/s, then resize to 1440p and compress to 30Mb/s in Avidemux before uploading. It will make them look WAY sharper.

The only caveat is the upload will take longer due to being 3 times the file size, but not too bad if you have a fast ISP and short video. On my 7Mb upload speed I can usually upload a 10 minute video in under an hour.

Could you convert your information into OBS settings? I like to use obs because of the extra HUD options aso. File size is not a problem since I have fiber. Thanks for replying.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Could you convert your information into OBS settings? I like to use obs because of the extra HUD options aso. File size is not a problem since I have fiber. Thanks for replying.

Not possible, as advanced as OBS is, there's one crucial thing of what I mentioned it will not do. You cannot resize a 1080p capture to 1440p with it, neither while the capture is made, nor after. It will only scale to resolutions lower than your native display res.

Thus you will have to use another tool to resize to 1440p after you capture the file with OBS. The main reasons I don't like OBS is you cannot use it for cached recording like you can with ReLive and ShadowPlay, you cannot resize to larger res, and it's controls are very non intuitive.

Most have to watch a lengthy tutorial just to know how to use OBS, and even then it has a lot of strange quirks. Suit yourself, but I thoroughly explained why I use ShadpowPlay and Avidemux, and they're both a LOT easier to use than OBS, and offer things OBS doesn't, which saves time and makes things much simpler.

If you are having a hard time understanding any of what I've said, I really don't understand why you'd want to use OBS, unless you are streaming, and even then, it's a lot less complex just to use ShadowPlay with OBS. Even just using simple video filters in OBS is very complex, more so than need be.