Question / Help Blurryness in my 720p/60 stream

[Elixerin]

hello, first off id like to thank anyone taking the time out to help me come up with a solution here.

for starters, i messed with every setting physically possible in attempt to fix blurryness even raising resolution but im just convinced that its my actual encoding process just not being used correctly. i stream at 720p/60 veryfast at 6000 bitrate(with lots of upload to spare). when i watch my vods back the stream and video itself just doesnt feel 720p,(please dont say its placebo as ive looked at a few friends streams and theirs in comparison just looks way sharper). ive tried “copying” as many settings and just cant get it to look crispier.

example of blurry stream(mine ofcourse):
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/302398857

a few examples of what a crisp 720p looks like in comparison:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/302363462

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/294912053

PC specs are as follows:
i7-7700
GTX 1070
16GB Ram
and 1TB HDD(if that even matters)

while this may seem like a minor problem its grown to bother me and im just wondering if theres a possible solution on my end, much appreciated.

Edit: ive tried using the sharpen filter but it just contrasts the whole picture and bleeds the blurryness even at such low values.

 

[DEDRICK]

Why does it look like you are playing at a 4:3 resolution instead of a 16:9 resolution? Your game is stretched, you are stretching pixels to make it fit the canvas, this will make it blurry because it requires OBS to scale filter your game capture source to fill in the pixels that don't exist

 

[Elixerin]

Why does it look like you are playing at a 4:3 resolution instead of a 16:9 resolution? Your game is stretched, you are stretching pixels to make it fit the canvas, this will make it blurry because it requires OBS to scale filter your game capture source to fill in the pixels that don't exist

ah yes, apologies. i play at 1440x1080 and i did force scaling option to such, even so though,

theyre should be enough pixels at 1280x720 that fully “covers” 1440x1080, right?
edit: ive actually been having the problem even before stretched and i will record a few videos off it to help,
i "streamed" a quick video on native resolution and the 'blurredness' is still quite noticeable
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/302599264
this can be compared to the earlier example:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/302363462

i uploaded a log of the stream btw (native res) and yes i did use NVENC for this example at 7000 bitrate to imitate my friends settings(the example listed just above)
its almost as if the actual picture is just blurred out slightly, im trying to make it look crispy and not like a mushed potato. thanks for the assistance in advance btw.

 

[n3v3rm1nd]

Looks completely fine. It's only 720p even downscaling from a higher res will make it blurry. Even looks like you already set the highest scaling filter too. Only thing that could help will be going 900p. I think you can even set to output 10k to twitch, output will still be 6k but the better the source the better the output.

 

[Elixerin]

Looks completely fine. It's only 720p even downscaling from a higher res will make it blurry. Even looks like you already set the highest scaling filter too. Only thing that could help will be going 900p. I think you can even set to output 10k to twitch, output will still be 6k but the better the source the better the output.

i see, unfortunately 7k is already stretching twitch's 6k limit. is it really just me on the quality tho? i know its blurred cause of the resolution but it feels like some peoples 720p60 is just a sharper blurred(what im trying to achieve). thanks for your input btw

 

[n3v3rm1nd]

i see, unfortunately 7k is already stretching twitch's 6k limit. is it really just me on the quality tho? i know its blurred cause of the resolution but it feels like some peoples 720p60 is just a sharper blurred(what im trying to achieve). thanks for your input btw

I'm not sure put I think you can just put 10k in but the output will be still recoded to 6k. I think they raised the input level.

Apart from that most of the people don't care about quality. As a non partner it's wise to go lower in the 4k region since you don't get quality settings. If someone comes on your channel and you stream at 6k but their bandwidth isn't good enough they will get loading times and can't watch the stream.

As affiliate you sometimes get transcoding. I had it many times but I'm still not bumping the quality until I'm partner or Twitch opens up transcode settings for everyone.

 

[Elixerin]

I'm not sure put I think you can just put 10k in but the output will be still recoded to 6k. I think they raised the input level.

Apart from that most of the people don't care about quality. As a non partner it's wise to go lower in the 4k region since you don't get quality settings. If someone comes on your channel and you stream at 6k but their bandwidth isn't good enough they will get loading times and can't watch the stream.

As affiliate you sometimes get transcoding. I had it many times but I'm still not bumping the quality until I'm partner or Twitch opens up transcode settings for everyone.

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