Question / Help Just Seeking Stream Setting Advice

[xKlokwerkz]

Hi there, I'm just trying to get the best looking stream at a 2500kb bitrate. I've played around with settings for quite awhile and found these through research, tips, trial and error. Anyone got any additional advice, settings, or tips that I might have missed or that I should change?

Log: https://gist.github.com/6db33acb9c2a5ea09b74
Stream Clip: http://www.twitch.tv/xklokwerkz/v/23300507?t=08m14s

 

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[sam686]

Use of custom settings, I would just leave many of them as defaults. Using ipratio / pbratio to only 1.0 is a bad idea as its wasting bitrates/quality on b-frames that it's data on b-frames probably won't be used later on. Use the default of 1.4/1.5 instead.

For me, scenecut=-1 (negative one) that disables automatic early key-frames does improves quality and also slightly lowers cpu usage. Same with b-adapt=0, but might have worst quality with more then 1 bframes.