A recent update completely broke video compatibility with YouTube

I've been using OBS for years, however something has been happening recently and I've determined that OBS is most likely at fault. I've consulted with all other communities involved - YouTube, video editor, etc. OBS is the only possible cause left to investigate.

Starting about a month ago, OBS recordings uploaded to YouTube will not process. At all. Any time I upload a raw OBS recording to YouTube, it will process SD resolutions and then stop. YouTube isn't stuck processing HD resolutions, that's not the problem. The problem is that YouTube thinks the videos are 360p and there's no reason to process them further. Every single OBS recording does this, no exceptions, starting a month ago:


All other software in existence, such as VLC Media Player, video editors, video converters, and MediaInfo all properly see it as an HD video. It's not in any weird resolution either, just 2560x1440p.

If I pass the video through my video editor, no changes made, just re-process, the video uploads to YouTube perfectly fine and starts processing as if nothing is wrong. I can't find any reports of this happening to anyone else anywhere on the internet. No one has opened any support threads on Google about it, no one has asked about this on my video editor of choice's forums, the only part of the process left that I haven't investigated is OBS, and considering this problem started shortly after updating OBS about a month ago, this post is the different between my YouTube channel existing and not existing.

Note that converting the video to another codec using video converters does not solve the issue, it has to be fully re-processed in a video editor for YouTube to see that it is in fact not a 360p video. I shouldn't have to spend a month trying all this. Does anyone know what could possibly be going wrong here?

Also, I hope people actually see this post, my last three posts on these forums were never seen by anyone as they had to go through some kind of "approval process" and by the time it was approved, it was buried under 10 pages of new posts. Those problems are still affecting me, by the way. 10/10 forum design.

PC Specs:

Windows 10 Pro x64 Build 19043

Intel Core i9-10900K

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super

64 GB DDR4 Memory

2TB Samsung EVO SSD

Virus/rootkit/malware/trojan scans come up completely clean, no hardware faults anywhere, I've done all the basic troubleshooting already.
 
 
Preemptively, if you're recording to MP4/MOV directly, STOP DOING THAT. Record to MKV or FLV.
There's a reason it pops up a warning when MP4 is selected.

MP4/MOV are not recording-safe formats, and many video editing suites have issues with the MP4s that OBS generates directly. If you *need* MP4s for some reason, you can remux from MKV/FLV to MP4 from OBS' File menu, Remux File. Takes seconds as it's just repacking into a new container format.
 
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