Question / Help FPS weightage

[KennyDBacon]

I'm usually streaming at 60FPS, but my friend with good internet speed claims that my stream lag and told me to tune it down to 30 FPS instead.
Does higher FPS cause more weightage to viewers?
I'm aiming to few to no buffering here, already tune down bitrate to 2200kb/s.

 

[KennyDBacon]

Also, does downscaling resolution improve or decrease stream quality and performance?

 

[KennyDBacon]

bump, need some clarification, thanks

 

[XeiZ]

It will increase performance.
Quality wise it depends on your settings really, 720p provided with a high enough bitrate will look better than 540p but the point here is high enough bitrate. So 720p does look "sharper" but might have a lot more pixelation going on than 540p at the same bitrate.
Lets say you use 1500kbps for 720p and play a higher motion game, 540p would most likely look cleaner.

 

[dodgepong]

All things being equal, changing FPS will add more load on the viewer's computer for decoding, in addition to whatever overhead Flash adds for high-framerate video. Individual frames won't look as good, because the encoder has twice as many frames to encode with the same amount of bit rate, and the increased load on your CPU could potentially (but not certainly) lead to late or duplicated frames, which will appear as stutters on the stream.