Hello all, I'd like to ask some questions about what bitrates and settings (encoders, etc) I should use for OBS if I want to record simultaneously. I have a 5930k overclocked to 4.6GHz, 2 GTX 980s, and an HD 7970 along with several 7200rpm hard drives and a 512gb ssd raid0 setup if hard drives matter. I generally use the H264 encoder. I'd like to stream, soon, some games in 1080p/30 and 720p/60 and record them locally for YouTube at 2160p/60 and 2160p/30. I figure this should be plausible considering my build, right? I'll take any suggestions, but basically I need bitrate and encoder suggestions. I've streamed for years but never been super advanced as far as OBS goes. (but yes, I'm on 'advanced mode') I'd also like to stream at the highest quality but lowest bitrate possible - if I can use a higher encoder preset to do this I would appreciate that. I'm not a partner so that's why - I want more accessibility to the stream for people with slower internet.
Question / Help Bitrate and settings suggestions for streaming and recording simultaneously
- Thread starter Kumatora
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4Krecorder
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Streaming and recording from the same computer is not viable, i have a very similar computer to yours, if you even attempt to record while streaming, it will produce a TON of encoding lag for both streaming and recording. Don't try to record and stream at the same time from one PC. A second PC, a low spec PC can work, with some capture card attached to the PCIe slot will be your way to go. Although, since you want to record in 4K then you might want to check your wallet in this case. Unless you let the second PC stream at 1080 and you record on 4k on the main. Regardless, a second PC will do you better unless you spend hundreds more on a new motherboard and CPU with 24 threads.
I'm thinking about getting a 6900k or whatever the equivalent is at the time but that'll be far in the future. I've been able to overclock my 5930k to just about 5ghz also. I'm also saving for a Plextor M8Pe PCI-e ssd. otherwise I have 7200rpm hard drives that are at the lowest 1tb and externals that are 2tb-4tb and usb 3.0 that are kinda okay speeds but probably equivalent to a 5400rpm or lower. just including that because i figured the speed might matter. I had hoped I could encode with my cpu and stream with NVENC or something but I guess that's not possible. If it helps at all I don't play super GPU intensive games, they're usually CPU intensive. My only question is if I'll be able to stream 1080p30 at good quality (no artifacting) at 3500 bitrate (maybe lower if possible) from my i5 2500k 5ghz PC?
Schauerland
Member
stream with x264 and record with nvenc works nice