Question / Help Low Quality

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Century

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Hello.

With a friend of mine, we've decided to take game videos and upload it to youtube and we both are using Open Broadcast Software. My friend's videos are perfect but my video quality... It's bad. It really is. Especially on fullscreen and 480pixel.

I'm searching the solution for this problem for 10 hours in total but couldn't find any solution. I hope that you'll be able to help to me.

I'll put one of my test videos to here. Also, screenshots of my settings of OBS, and Dxdiag. (dxdiag is in Turkish but I'm sure that you would get the general information.) And I use "game capture" on "sources"

Note: I'm seriously not thinking the quality of videos are down because of this but friend of mine told me that "It may be reasoned because of that old screen that you're using.", let me tell you it's information too. Philips 170S4 - 2004 model, using it in 1280x1024. Screen itself is probably 4:3. (You may search from google images and see the screen. I can't understand if the screen is 5:4 or 4:3)

Thanks everyone.

Test video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD4VrLxKycs

Screenshots: (I noticed that mistakely I screenshot audio settings too but... anyway)

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C

Century

New Member
I seriously don't understand why no one is answering to me.

I have shared all the information I can. What can I share more? Or the problem is so bad that no one knows what to do?
 
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varyak

You really need to be more patient, you just posted yesterday night and not a week ago.

The quality is okay for your settings, if possible you could increase Bitrate to 2500-2800 and if you have low cpu utilization you could go with a slower CPU preset like faster.
 
C

Century

New Member
varyak said:
You really need to be more patient, you just posted yesterday night and not a week ago.

The quality is okay for your settings, if possible you could increase Bitrate to 2500-2800 and if you have low cpu utilization you could go with a slower CPU preset like faster.
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Pardon me, when I saw that a thread had 14 replies in an hour, I may be panicked, a little bit.

The thing is that, it isn't okay. How do I know? Because I have a friend who nearly has same PC with me. Same RAM, same CPU and nearly same graphics card. But his recordings are waaay better than mine. And I'm using exactly the same OBS settings with him. Only the difference is, resolution, which shouldn't effect the video this much(imho)

This is my friend's video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YtkQa_p32o
 
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dping

Active Member
Century said:
Pardon me, when I saw that a thread had 14 replies in an hour, I may be panicked, a little bit.

The thing is that, it isn't okay. How do I know? Because I have a friend who nearly has same PC with me. Same RAM, same CPU and nearly same graphics card. But his recordings are waaay better than mine. And I'm using exactly the same OBS settings with him. Only the difference is, resolution, which shouldn't effect the video this much(imho)

This is my friend's video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YtkQa_p32o
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hes encoding for 1080p that is a decent size difference from 720p. both videos look fine. his is just a lot sharper. If you want sharper, use 1080p but leave the preset at veryfast since that does nothing for local recording. If you are only local recording then sending to YT, raise your bitrate to 10000 OR for perfect video, set bitrate to 1000 and buffer to 0. A custom buffer of 0 will allow the encoder to chose the bitrate.

I will warn you of longer upload times to youtube though.
 
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Century

New Member
dping said:
hes encoding for 1080p that is a decent size difference from 720p. both videos look fine. his is just a lot sharper. If you want sharper, use 1080p but leave the preset at veryfast since that does nothing for local recording. If you are only local recording then sending to YT, raise your bitrate to 10000 OR for perfect video, set bitrate to 1000 and buffer to 0. A custom buffer of 0 will allow the encoder to chose the bitrate.

I will warn you of longer upload times to youtube though.
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In 10000 bitrate, it was perfect. And also tried 1080p but since my screen is 1280x1024, the video was too small.

But I have a new problem now. Although video quality is perfect, when I upload to youtube, it goes bad. Youtube ruins it. Is there a way to prevent it?

Thanks btw.
 
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dping

Active Member
Century said:
In 10000 bitrate, it was perfect. And also tried 1080p but since my screen is 1280x1024, the video was too small.

But I have a new problem now. Although video quality is perfect, when I upload to youtube, it goes bad. Youtube ruins it. Is there a way to prevent it?

Thanks btw.
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If you preview before sending and its good, just wait some time for youtube to transcode it for you. sometimes it takes hours, sometimes a day or two.

EDIT: also, your screen's aspect ratio is 4:3 which is how youtube views it.
 
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Century

New Member
dping said:
If you preview before sending and its good, just wait some time for youtube to transcode it for you. sometimes it takes hours, sometimes a day or two.

EDIT: also, your screen's aspect ratio is 4:3 which is how youtube views it.
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Yes, youtube already transcoded it.

So, the problem actually is my screen being 4:3?
 
TimeRocker

TimeRocker

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It can take youtube sometime to full transcode your video. Sometimes it can take up to a week for you to be able to view the video in 1080p quality. Also set your frames to 60, itll make a MASSIVE difference, even with games that around only 30 because it wont skip some of the frames
 
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