THIS is why your livestreams are pixelated... OBS Tutorial

[@BiggerBadderBeaver]

Hope you found this video useful! I realized shortly after posting that I misspeak at times and say kiloBYTES instead of kiloBITS -- just pretend I always say kilobits so I don't have to re-record this video :)

[@ravenoftheredsky]

What are the issues in the long run if you are not a partner on twitch streaming above 6k bitrate?

[@xxLegendaryVikingxx]

Love the video man but I’ve tried many things on obs for recording and still don’t know what to do, I only record gameplay to put it up on KZbin and still looks a bit blurry can you help me out these are my specs -AMD Ryzen 7 5700 -NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and I only record warzone with 1080p as my resolution

[@T.Yen1557]

@@xxLegendaryVikingxx how’s your WiFi

[@solarus7828]

Really awesome dude, I liked that you gave people with lower end pc's actual fixes and options instead of just saying "get a better pc" really helps new streamers who are trying to build an audience but cant afford a better system. Your channel is rad

[@Milesieditforfun]

THANK U SO MUCH

[@candiclown]

I just wanted to come back and say that I followed the advice in your video and it turned EVERYTHING around. I actually have good picture and stream quality now, where before it was occasionally blurry, and I really appreciate the help this video gave.

[@Bri0ntop]

Can we hype this guy? He was the most descriptive and I've watched several of these tutorials. Good job sir 👌

[@BigBadBeaver]

glad it was helpful :)

[@blirlv]

get her number nga fuck you doin@@BigBadBeaver

[@Xoilen]

I don't understand what's going on, I am streaming at 8000 bitrate 1080p, no dropped frames, cpu and gpu are sitting around 30-50% usage yet when I move at all my stream becomes super pixelated.

[@statemind.]

Same

[@shiannafoxx]

Check your internet bro

[@statemind.]

@@shiannafoxx my shits plugged in with a cat 8 Ethernet cable

[@shiannafoxx]

@@statemind. It still doesn’t hurt to check

[@statemind.]

@@shiannafoxx no I know I’ve been spending most of my free time diagnosing this issue. I’m genuinely throwing money towards this I’m invested in internet to get me about 1GB of Dowload

[@MichaelW1980randoms]

If you want to drastically improve on your visuals, just don’t stream 1080p60. It’s that simple. 1080p is 2.5 times the pixels per second of 720p. And 60FPS is always 2 times the pixels per second, compared to 30 fps. If KZbinrs upload content in 4K in 60 fps to KZbin, they choose 50000 Kbit/s (50 Mbit/s) or more. I personally would go for about 60Mbit/s at that case. Luckily I don’t deal with 4K and stick with 1080p60. So 15Mbit/s is Just fine. And surprise, 15 MBit/s is 2.5 times 6000 Kbit/s. Choose 720p60 for 6000 Kbit/s of Bitrate at a key frame every 2 seconds. Set all your cameras and capture cards to Rec.709 and make sure the framerate of all the content captured is the same as well. Not always, the computer display or games console can run a round 60FPS, but actually 59.94FPS. That’s the NTSC standard for „60FPS“, by the way, and windows often enough states a refresh rate like 59.94 or 59.97 as 60FPS. And don’t bother with Full color range, since many capture cards are actually locked into limited color range anyways, even if they fake supporting full range. Just make sure the PC, camera or console behind the capture card does output limited color range as well, so colors don’t look too dark or washed out. Done. This will give you astonishingly good image quality. 1080p60 below at the very least 12500 just looks bad. And even if you could stream like that, who wants to watch a stream like that on their smartphone, especially if you are on a data volume limited „flatrate“? Heck even if you have a real flatrate like that. Receiving a 12.5 Mbit/s live stream can be quite a problem on LTE/4G or 5G.

[@tomasberes4986]

So i have around 90-100 mbt/s upload, what do i need to do to be able to stream in 1080p 60fps with out "pixelation"?

[@JSRadetzke]

Underrated youtuber bro... keep up the professional explanations! soothing voice too

[@BigBadBeaver]

Glad the video was helpful, thanks for your feedback and compliments

[@mars3168]

This was actually really helpful. I was expecting to be confused, but this was super straightforward. Thank you.

[@LaJoker]

one thing i would recommend is changing your webcam to actually face the gameplay of your stream. Having it on the left while your looking straight at the game, makes the stream look like you're looking past the game. Move the webcam overlay to the right, still looking straight at the game, so it looks more pleasing to the viewer that it "looks" like your actually looking at the gameplay on stream. (8:10) is what i'm referring to.

[@cheapandroid]

such a helpful tutorial. you even went as far as showing examples, and telling us what the settings that need tweaked do. you earned my sub, much respect for you.

[@BigBadBeaver]

Thanks for the support glad it was helpful

[@tyguy46]

Truly thank you . This video has been invaluable for helping me with making my stream better for my viewers

[@Saiiyne]

Very helpful and probably the best tutorial I have found, thanks.

[@kingdray97]

Out of all the people I watched with help on my pc this guy is easily the best one! Very descriptive and helpful!

[@VasiliasPlayz]

Hey does using Ultra Low Latency effect the quality of my stream because I have already done everything you told in the video but my streams still look grainy.

[@KA-jk4rs]

Thank you. After a week of trying to figure out my issue, you’ve given me the best feedback yet!

[@Lalovoe]

I would like to add that if you have a slow internet or something, instead of just dropping the bitrate, it can also be useful to drop the framerate (ideally not below 30) or the resolution. As then each pixel gets more of that total bitrate dedicated towards it. A 720p 30fps stream at 3000kbps will always look better than a 1080p 60 fps stream at the same 3000, or even slightly higher like 4000 kbps. Because such a low bitrate will never allow 1080p to be as sharp or 60fps to be as smooth as it can be in more demanding scenes, so in some situations it can look even worse.

[@NovvaOfficial]

I'm not sure why the rumor of partnered streamers on Twitch having a high access to bitrate than everyone else is believed. This simply just isn't the case. I'm not partnered and I stream at 7,900 kb/s with transcoding when it's available. This has been tested pretty extensively among many people and if your bandwidth can afford the bitrate, I suggest anyone to crank up bitrate. The rest of the video is good advice.

[@Partakofficial]

I like your content bro, your articulation is so good and i can see your video recording skill. Thank you for this video and really good tutorial, helped mi a lot!!! ❤

[@zenfiy.]

The most clear and useful video i've watched. Thanks!

[@SKETCHGAMING69]

This video was great! after 1 year im still figuring out bitrate to make my streams look better thanks alot

[@JonelKingas]

0:03 its cause its avc codec, but even vp09 still looks like a pixel art when its dark example horror game... youtube streaming is poop cause haven't tested on twitch yet

[@WigglesTheDuck]

Wow. Concise, to-the-point, and excellent comparisons between different settings. Great vid! You've got a great voice btw you ought to be doing sponsored segues.

[@BigBadBeaver]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video

[@ch8se]

this is the best video about this hands down makes it so simple and understandable thanks g

[@dragonflaw]

Hi there, when I set the Encoder Preset to "Quality" is when my stream looks way better, but that overloads my OBS and makes my stream freeze a lot. Could I get rid of the freezes without setting the preset to Balanced? Thanks for the video!

[@BilsonBoi]

Hey quick question, I'm trying to capture a media player and display it on the screen while i stream. I reduce the size of the captured window to make it not so instrusive but it looks really blurry on obs itself is there a way i can keep the crisp clear visuals of the window I'm trying to capture while also making it small enough to not be in the way? feels like when i shrink it I'm losing pixels or something..

[@gonzootv9036]

Nothing new for me but you did it very good. Good information for beginners an the importest info in one video. Good work!

[@erikquezada8911]

Thank you so much !! Simple , quick & very helpful now 🔥 10/10

[@Fourstr1nger]

what encoder should I use if I played my game on console and using my pc for stream? x264 or nvenc?

[@rcdude86]

It really depends on gpu model, 1660, 2070, 30’s 40’s. Each is a different settings model really in the end. And 6000 bit rate with high motion @ resolution of 1080p will look rough. Static or slow moving games will not be so effected.

[@Sayble117]

Awesome video man! Thanks for the help!

[@ghettomeatloaf-7808]

thank you so much, great video! It has so much useful knowledge.

[@ghettomeatloaf-7808]

i wish the best for you in the future g

[@SheldonHere]

thank you bruv. I liked and subscribed

[@navyjonny117tng]

Now this you call an informative video. Double thumbs up 👍for you bro. Very well explanation 👏 👍 👌 When streaming and gaming from a Single PC Setup, it can be quite demanding on both the cpu and GPU, especially when you stream on Twitch. That being said, Twitch servers are way different than KZbin. If one take the same recommended bitrates of Twitch and use it on KZbin, there will be No Pixelation, Stutters or Lag. What I liked about this video is that, you explained it in detail and also showed some examples which was really awesome 👌 👏 Liked your vid and you got a sub bro. Much love and respect for you.

[@Magswap]

Phenomenal video, amazing tips 👏

[@jacobhernandez4347]

Thanks for the education on bit rates. Im new to everything tech, I recently bought a PC and im use to simple MAC PCs. Recently came across the low quality coming out of my elgato and came across your video this helped a lot much is appreciated !

[@ashryver3605]

i thought you were going to talk about it but you kind of skipped over what to do regarding it.. but for the keyframe interval in that situation if you want a better quality stream when movement is happening do you want higher keyframe interval or do we always keep the default of 2?

[@BrokenWiener]

Thank you so much! This helped out immensly! You made it very easy to understand and to troubleshoot.

[@langutop6072]

Thank you beaver, this was a great help, and also entertaining. :)

[@BigBadBeaver]

thank you lang.

[@joplazaful]

Thank you so much! This was easy to follow and understand and my recordings/streams look so much better now :D

[@DJOnline1]

Thank you so much man fix my whole problem

[@flawlesskingyuna7068]

I appreciate this video a lot, easy to understand and not boring at all. Will see if it helps on my next stream, thank you for the help video.

[@AuroraAnomalia]

very helpful and informative, thank you so much!

[@mrutss]

thanks! normally i stream games that doesnt really demand much quality like dota and pokemon but then i noticed this when I played Fallout on stream. In the end i had to drop fps from 60 to 30 due to my connection. Maybe its just copium but i dont see 30fps being bad for streaming games not unless your actual game without the stream is running at the same fps.

[@sycred4479]

nice tut bro, very explainatory

[@saintaracelle]

bitrate good but still have this problem

[@EmeraldDLP]

change your preset to slow (Good Quality)

[@Cambo1579]

Were you able to fix the problem?

[@saintaracelle]

nope@@Cambo1579

[@DrinkItRight]

same

[@statemind.]

Same

[@JergoYT]

Very informative video. Thank you so much! Still a question though. I'm running 2060 (so not that far worse than your 2070) and I have almost the same upload rate as you. But when i streamed Scorn last week on 1080p60fps I had this pixelation like you had in Skyrim. Is it possible that Dark or Darker Games are more demanding on my upload? I fixed it by lowering the resolution to 720p but I dont really like that solution. Any ideas?

[@BigBadBeaver]

Some scenes, especially if there's lots of fog, volumetrics, static, or extremely detailed textures, will be more demanding to encode than others. I don't know what scorn is, but perhaps the game has a lot of the above?

[@JergoYT]

@@BigBadBeaver it has detailed textures, a lot of fog and is really dark. Guess that's the problem then. Dark Souls worked great yesterday with the same settings. Thank you :)

[@metallic_zombie_killer9837]

Your vid just saved me alot of time my friend, thank you. Liked & Subscribed 👍

[@Yoshi-pw7yo]

so im using amd idk if that matters but im using 6000 bitrate i know i can handle it i have 60 upload speed and it still looks so blurry ive watched maybe 10 videos nothing worked what can i dooooo

[@totocsgo]

did you ever fix it? if so how

[@IchibanThug]

Huge help!!! Thanks bud

[@yoStricken]

to preface, I have a 3070ti and an 8 core ryzen processor. I turned the settings to 6000 bitrate, lanczos scaling, 1080p 60fps, and did everything else every single one of these videos says. yet my streams and recordings are still grainy and blurry as hell, especially any time I move. I really don't understand why :(

[@fattommy3591]

Any luck??

[@chaoticxarlane]

Thank you i was reviewing my stream and i didnt know how to fix the pixelation of my stream. Thank you again

[@Berserk1246]

Awesome video! Quick question. I just started streaming and followed your settings. I currently get 10 mbps upload and have my bitrate set to 6k output is set to 1080p at 60fps with Nvidia encoder. I’m still getting blurry pixels when moving my character. Do I need to scale down bit rate and resolution? To get rid of that?

[@SnoochGaming]

I AM LEGIT IN THE SAME EXACT SITUATION AS YOU like same settings and all!

[@raerqil]

+1

[@Berserk1246]

@@SnoochGaming I found the issue. you need to let your windows firewall access OBS.

[@mariajosenazar4469]

@@Berserk1246 hey, how did that solve the issue? what's the relation? thankss!

[@Berserk1246]

@@mariajosenazar4469 its been awhile since i fixed it but it has to do something with OBS and your firewall. I would look on youtube for a guide on "how to allow obs through firewall".

[@Gotsta]

ngl im always trying to improve my streams this is the first of say 50 videos that actually helped

[@EddieOrr]

Thank you BBB. This is really helpful subscribed! 😀

[@KYMETAL_1]

Dude awesome video, you fixed my stream! I appreciate it.

[@BigBadBeaver]

Glad I could help :)

[@KaoticAus1]

quick question? what preset are you using on for encoding / what multipass mode do you use .. i have a 3060 gpu an cant seem to get it right

[@liquid_sn8k]

Thank you this was incredibly helpful!

[@showman9690]

This is by far the best video about this topic on this platform period.

[@HITbyP]

So like people that watched streams off phone datas fps should be left at 30 right? Thats what i noticed

[@garneredvin8135]

thanks for explaining and helping me understand

[@Graceland-2015]

Thank U for this tutorial video for setting up a Good Stream .

[@DKFel1x]

what is your streamlabs obs settings? can you make a vid on it or smth :D nice vid!

[@Tina_1009]

What is obs and how do I find the setting for it to change bitrate? Watching people's streams is rubbish when they moving as u said

[@r3ya]

Wow this is so professional and actually helps! Thank you!

[@TheTarktician]

Question for you. So when I use the rescale option it squishes my output feed so the viewer on twitch gets a squished view of my gameplay. However when I disable the rescale option it looks good and like normal. I am gaming on a 1440p ultrawide monitor and am outputting 1080p to twitch. However it’s not giving me the option for 1920x1080 but instead 2580x1080 is this due to the ultrawide monitor so it’s keep the same aspect ratio??

[@prodnothingtodo]

so if I stream 1080p in 144hz I need a bitrate of 14400?

[@drazensusnjara7606]

Thank you mate this helped a lot

[@heybos4640]

I have this issue when recording videos.. Im recording at 1080p because thats my native res and it just looks pixalated and grainy like this..Upping the bitrate helps but slightly. And the quality is still generally crap even though the file size has increased. Using amd gpu/265 encoder

[@stevenjonas1]

Have you found a fix to this?? Encountering the same issue! I'm using a 6650xt :(

[@_JLG]

same here

[@piscesfreak1]

Thank you for the explanation, dude! So clearly explained! I understand a lot more of what I am doing.

[@MellowGamingTV]

mine is still pixelated regardless of how much I increase the bitrate... i'm starting to think i'm just streaming way too high of a quality... and might have to downscale to 1080p

[@lil-vr]

This helped a lot thanks 😊

[@dvo.gamingph2394]

tnx man.. very informative video...big help..

[@beerexpert1057]

Sup I got a 14700K with a 4070TI super and 32 gigs of ram at 7000. I got a 1440p monitor and that is how I want to play the games. What should I set the output resolution? 1080p or 720p?

[@VitValentaEnglish]

what do you mean older intel CPU, what gen? I have nvidia GeForce 1050 TI on a laptop and intel i7-7700HQ and the quick sync encoder seems to have better result. still not what I imagine though :D good video, thanks!

[@Cheesykid]

Does this also work for recording? I want to record Fortnite gameplay but I don’t wanna upload because it’s so low quality when I watch the gameplay back

[@ari-athbadminton0301]

CRF / CQP is def better for recording however because it ajust the bitrate to the quality of the end result instead of managing a bitrate cap. what about x265??

[@sharu_teg_studio]

I am using a 4060 Graphics card Laptop and streaming through NVENC H.264 on 1080p with 12 mbps bitrate, still it's not even as clear as a 6mbps bitrate. Streams get blurry, eventhough if there is no rendering or encoding lag and the network is perfect. No frames get skipped and the recording also works just fine. But the live stream gets blurrier while moving especially. Any Ideas??

[@johnnykitsch]

Very calming video, you have a great delivery style. Sub!

[@Itskinsja]

I’m on 6000, and have been. I still get a blurry stream, especially when spinning around, and moving quickly. Any thoughts?

[@diskyze791]

i have the same issue

[@SL4CKIN]

same! so annoying@@diskyze791

[@Itskinsja]

have you fixed it? it's still a problem for me haha @@diskyze791

[@ToxicGamingDaniel]

this was a Big help for now i have fixed alot on obs, so thx alot

[@Chidori2803]

Excellente job sir!!

[@ranerene]

Thank you man❤

[@Pickle2Tickle]

I like how you explained this like I was 5.

[@DunkzGam1ng]

question: does a CPU/GPU mismatch also cause pixelation/stream issues? i just upgraded to a rtx3070 but i only have a i7 7700 and i get stream pixelation no matter what settings i use in obs. so i wonder if its because the GPU is too powerful for the CPU and the CPU is bottlenecking somehow

[@KobePrimeTv]

Very informative and easy to follow instructions. A+ content. Thank you

[@average-jack]

Would you recommend x264 for someone like myself that uses a capture card and just runs the stream on my pc?

[@shivendugupta9609]

I have a low end pc with ryzen 3 pro 4350g processor without any dedicated graphics card, 16GB Ram will it work for me ?

[@mcguitar537]

DAMN!!! Been looking for this thorough & precise explanations & tips for months!!! LOL! Only problem is the discrete gpu of my loptop failed, and is not working anymore. Only have left is x264 and Quicksync. Specs of laptop is i7 8th gen, with 8gbs or ram.. I know this comment is just new after months of this video upload of yours. But I would really appreciate if there's other ways to make my stream more pleasing. Also the upload speed in OOKLA says 80.24, but i think its converted into 9? I guess. Hope for your reply bro. Thanks in advance.

[@Razor7x]

LXST CXNTURY background music, goated

[@Gugey]

Great video man

[@karljason13]

so even if i have ~800mbps download/upload, while streaming on twitch, my limit is only 6k bitrate even though i can handle a lot more? (nvenc encoder, streaming through streamlabs obs)

[@Sn4p_Fps]

I heard make sure your obs is launching as administrator in windows can fix problems.

[@WhatIzFate]

so what about if none of this fix your streams what do you do then

[@Wolfrag]

I have a question...I have a monitor with a resolution of 1360x768 ..Games I mostly stream are Cod or Apex or other campaign games...what I basically do is I change my Base Canvas and My output canvas to 1080p(1920x1080) Do u think upscaling my resolution (base Canvas res) is causing my streams blurry...Or should I stick to the settings I use 🤔

[@BigBadBeaver]

It is possible. I would recommend instead of upscaling to 1080p, downscale to 720p. You’ll likely get sharper results.

[@Wolfrag]

@@BigBadBeaver sure I'll try it out thank you for the reply 🙂

[@IrishMan-warthundr]

My stream looks good until I import them to KZbin then it turns them into SD instead of HD and it looks so bad how do I fix that on YT

[@JAZZTONRODRIGUEZ]

Great vid thanks brother

[@TheTC]

Just staring at me like you want a pokemon battle

[@GemyGaming_LOL]

i think you should take look at qsv encoder in 11th and 12th gens this encoder slightly beats both nvidia and amd at 3500 bit rate

[@sweet_ghostshark]

what bitrate should i use when i have a upload speed of 500

[@trendzgamingg]

So how can I upgrade my out scale resolution…monitor?internet? Or graphic card?

[@papajyo]

i have 1gbps download speed and 600mbps upload speed .. so basically i can use 8500kbps right?