Question / Help Difference between 30 fps and 60 fps?

Dewbaah

New Member
At the moment I am able to run my stream at 1280 x 720 at 60 fps all over wireless with no frame drops. I seem to constantly strive for a better streaming experience would lowering the FPS from 60 to 30 really effect the over all quality of the stream that much? Or if i am not having any issues just leave well enough alone?
 

alpinlol

Active Member
depends on your bitrate ... usually a 720@60 streams like by far better if you got a decent bitrate but if your upload is shit you cant really do a 60 fps stream cause of the quality loss per frame
 

vaesauce

Member
30FPS gives you better quality as there is less bitrate needed to cover the image of your stream. However, you may notice choppiness in your stream. 60FPS, might pixelate if you don't have the right amount of Bitrate but the gameplay is significantly smoother on stream.

30FPS is also easier on the CPU, you'll notice a performance increase ingame while streaming at 30FPS vs 60FPS too.

Some people like to go with 48FPS as it's a good balance for Performance and Quality and isn't as choppy as 30FPS.
 

Dewbaah

New Member
I should mention i am streaming a PS3 console The only thing I notice running 2750 bitrate at 60 fps is slight blurryness
 

Lain

Forum Admin
Lain
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In my humble opinion, if you want to stream at 60fps, and it's working fine, then no need to fix what isn't broken.
 

vaesauce

Member
Dewbaah said:
I should mention i am streaming a PS3 console The only thing I notice running 2750 bitrate at 60 fps is slight blurryness

Slight blurriness is normal with 60FPS @ 2750 bitrate.

The only way you're going to reduce that is to increase your bitrate or have a slower preset.
 

FerretBomb

Active Member
60fps, motion will look smoother. 30fps, you'll have a better image quality (less blur/blocking) in games.

In either case, I would strongly suggest going to a wired connection; wifi is very prone to bandwidth saturation/interference, and EVERYONE on the same channel essentially 'shares' the amount of throughput available for that channel... including your neighbors, even if they are on their own AP.
 
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