Question / Help Changing settings has no effect on recordings

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Zix

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Hello, no matter what changes I input, I get the exact same recording quality. It's incredibly frustrating. Latest log: https://obsproject.com/logs/t4hbma09xN5ueIfD

I was trying to record at 40k bitrate on x264, and 40k bitrate on NVENC, always blurry. I changed to a bitrate of 1 to make sure I wasn't crazy, and it was the EXACT same quality. What am I missing here?

To clarify, it's only blurry on full screen, on a smaller window it seems fine, but when going full screen the quality is horrendously low.
 
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BK-Morpheus

BK-Morpheus

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Can you show us a screenshot of the encoder and output options?
Last time, some one saw no impact on quality (after changing bitrate settings), the problem was, that the streaming encoder settings were forced, no matter what local encoder settings were set.
That's a simple control box which is controlling this feature.
 
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BetaPsycho

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BK-Morpheus said:
Can you show us a screenshot of the encoder and output options?
Last time, some one saw no impact on quality (after changing bitrate settings), the problem was, that the streaming encoder settings were forced, no matter what local encoder settings were set.
That's a simple control box which is controlling this feature.
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BetaPsycho

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so should i simply disable "enforce streaming service encoder settings" option?
-- tried to disable it - still no difference
 
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BetaPsycho

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BK-Morpheus said:
Sorry, can't help you with Streamlabs mod Version of OBS, maybe Streamlabs support can help with that.
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well, original obs had the same issue, thats why i tried streamlabs obs, but i cant switch back to original obs bc my widgets dont load now for some reason
 
BK-Morpheus

BK-Morpheus

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What about local recordings....is the difference visible there?
Not sure what Youtube might do to a 20.000kbit/s stream, so checking if the bitrate changes are visible in local recordings, would be my first option (and disabling "enforce streaming service encoder settings").
 
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BetaPsycho

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BK-Morpheus said:
What about local recordings....is the difference visible there?
Not sure what Youtube might do to a 20.000kbit/s stream, so checking if the bitrate changes are visible in local recordings, would be my first option (and disabling "enforce streaming service encoder settings").
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well, i didnt see the difference between 4.5k and 8k on stream too ("enforce streaming service encoder settings" is off)
Streams with different bitrate:
4.5k - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/312511483
8k - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/315439792

tested on local recordings - actually there is a difference on local recordings but can clearly see it between 4.5k and 20k bitrate only
(https://obsproject.com/logs/WxkuxBnLh2EbKV9G - if a log file needed)
 
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BK-Morpheus

BK-Morpheus

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Working correctly, from what I can see.
Of course, the quality of the 8k stream is not really noticeably better than the 4.5k stream, because you doubled the frame rate as well.
The 4.5kbit stream is running 1080p 30fps and the 8kbit stream is running 1080p 60fps and therefore more bitrate is needed. That's why both look very comparable when it comes to pixelation/quality.
 
carlmmii

carlmmii

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Not much when it comes to NVENC. High Quality, High profile, 2-pass, bframes up to 4. That's about the most you can do past raising bitrate.

Lowering the resolution would give more information per pixel for better apparent compression quality, but at the obvious cost of resolution detail.
 
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