Question / Help I've tried everything...

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NickG

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Specs:

AMD FX-6300 3.5ghz Six Core
8GB DDR3
500GB HDD
AMD R7 250 2GB

Internet:
1.1MBPS Upload
Wireless but not the problem, I get the same choppy/blockyness in local recordings.

I established the problem was my internet but no, I tried a local recording and it did the same effect while streaming (choppyness/pixelated). I have looked at every video for settings, looked around the entire forum and found nothing. At one point I had somewhat decent settings but nothing I can stand with. I've been testing this with minecraft.

I don't see the point in putting my settings up as I've changed them almost 50 times and I can't seem to get a good overall setting picked out so if you can recommend me a large list of proper settings that would be great.

My settings probably aren't suitable at the moment if you can tell in the logs but take into effect that I've tried tickering with every bit of settings and looked around for the best solutions and came up with nothing.

XSplit does the same exact thing for me, I have tried using FRAPS and the FPS is flawless with no choppyness/pixelated look to it so I'm quite confused.

Logs:

http://pastebin.com/9KfevG1U
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Don't use the slow x264 CPU preset. It is overloading your CPU. Use veryfast instead.

EDIT: I looked some of your later settings and saw that you did switch back to veryfast. Can you post an example video from when you used veryfast?
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Well, since you seemed to try a lot of things, I can try to give what I would guess would be decent settings for you. AMD hexacores aren't the greatest, but I'm not sure how good/bad they really are. Also 1Mbps upload is not great, so it will probably always look pixelated no matter what settings you use. You can't compare to FRAPS since FRAPS is only doing local recording and not trying to use settings you might use when streaming. It uses raw video (which you can't use for streaming) so it's a completely different beast.

Resolution: 640x360
Bit rate/buffer: 700 kbps
FPS: 25
x264 preset: veryfast

Again, that will not look very good because your upload speed is really bad. If you're only doing local recording, then there are different settings to use. But for streaming, those settings are probably the best you'll be able to do.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Yes, it will be low quality. If you want to stream, that's the best you can do, since your upload is really really low.
 
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NickG

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Even at that, I should suffice with 480p regardless, some setting is obviously not right in OBS for it to do that local & streaming wise.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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The problem is 100% with your upload speed. The reason the quality is so low is because you have to have a low bit rate in order to not drop frames while streaming. If you had higher upload, it would look better, because you could stream at a higher bit rate. But your upload speed is low, so you have to stream at a low bit rate. That low bit rate will not look good at any resolution, so it's better to set it to a low resolution like 360p so that it will at least look not-as-bad when moving.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Local recording and streaming use the same settings. It's using the same encoder, just outputting to a different place. If you want to have a high quality local recording, there are different settings you should use, but those settings can't be used for streaming.
 
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NickG

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Quite odd cause theres plenty of youtube videos on tutorials on how to stream with 1MBPS and theres is perfectly fine.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Can you link to such a video?

Remember that YouTube videos can be uploaded as local recordings. So if you're comparing your streaming quality against a video that was uploaded from a high quality local recording, then yes, they will be different.
 
dodgepong

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OK? So you can set it to 480p if you want, I was just giving my recommendation.

Several of those videos had pretty nonsensical settings. For example, the last one claimed to be settings for 1mbps upload, but he set his bit rate to 1800kbps, which is a guarantee for dropped frames. The first one recommended the superfast x264 preset, which would make your video look even worse.

If your CPU can handle it, you can try the faster or fast preset at 480p. Again, I don't know how great that CPU is, so it will be up to you to find it out.
 
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NickG

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Even with 480p still does it, 360p is so bad you wont even notice it, everything is unreadable, clearly something is wrong.
 
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NickG

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In that case I probably can just stream in 720p if I'm correct since I didnt get any problems with except the pixelation problems or would it be best to just stay at low resolution?
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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If you stream at a higher resolution, movement will be even blurrier because the encoder will have to allocate more of your bit rate to a larger frame. But you can do that if you want.
 
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