Question / Help Limited range and odd colors on YouTube upload

Koetsu

Koetsu

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So here's this issue I'm having with OBS that I'm sure isn't intentional. When I record, just locally, I get a decent video file. It looks fine when I play it back in Windows Media Player and VLC for Modern Windows. By fine, it means I'm getting deep black levels and the correct colors. So it's really close to what I was actually recording.
But when I upload that same video to YouTube, I get a limited RGB range that produces lighter blacks. The hue also appears a tad shifted. Why does this happen and how do I get a 1:1 upload of my recorded content?

Here is a log, if that helps.
 
You'd need to record a small video, upload it to youtube, then add the source file to dropbox or something (so we can cross-check) to see.

If you make a small enough file, I can try uploading it myself, and/or recording a video of your video to see if it looks the same, then uploading THAT video to youtube, to see if the same thing happens.

If we both get an issue, it's youtube.

If you get the issue and I don't with your video AND my video, then... it must be something with your youtube that you're automatically applying (I have youtube's "auto" stuff all disabled)

If I get the issue on your video and not on my recording of your video, then it must mean that somehow the video files you produce have an issue, which is where attacking the OBS issue comes into play.

(this is how we find the source of a problem =D)
 
Hi. Sorry for the very late reply.
I think it's a YouTube issue, but I don't know where it becomes an issue because I don't see where the auto-corrections get made.

Here's a failed recording from a while ago that's short enough to observe. http://youtu.be/iaA2iGp_tiE
Notice the strange hue shift and light gray instead of black.

And here is the file I uploaded to get that. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42704237/Temp/Recording (20).mp4

Plus, the YouTube thumbnail is much more saturated and probably closer to the actual file that was uploaded. Possibly related, whenever I have to cut out parts of a video and I open it in AviDemux, even stranger colors show up there, but saving it doesn't keep those bad colors on the local copy.
 
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