My Youtube stream is kinda blurry but my internet and PC are more than capable of streaming?

[TheJovialBrit]

Previously I was sharing a 15Mbps upload speed with 2 other people in this property and I knew that that was causing me streaming issues. However, today I intentionally had a second line installed, for personal use, that offers up to 500Mbps upload speeds, and I am the sole user of this new line. I had the engineer install the HUB/router into my bedroom and my PC is about 10ft away from it, connected via ethernet.

PC specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
GPU: RTX 4090 24GB OC.
RAM: 32Gig DDR5 - 6,000Mhz.

Internet speeds:

OBS settings:

It's so frustrating because I now have everything that I require to stream at great quality but it is still somewhat blurry and I just don't understand why? I've watched instructional videos, asked on Reddit, done Google searches but nothing seems to work.

I did read that, especially as a new streamer, my stream would be of lower quality until I get a little more notoriety. Is that true?

Thanks!

 

[AaronD]

Has YouTube (or maybe your browser) figured out that you have a fast download? So that YT's automatic quality setting actually gives you something good instead of 480 or something like that? Even if you give it a good upload, you won't see the results if it still thinks you need a postage stamp sized screen to watch it back smoothly.

Or, maybe your dedicated connection is still lousy for actual streaming. Annoyingly, the speedtest doesn't actually measure that. I wish it did...

 

[TheJovialBrit]

Has YouTube (or maybe your browser) figured out that you have a fast download? So that YT's automatic quality setting actually gives you something good instead of 480 or something like that? Even if you give it a good upload, you won't see the results if it still thinks you need a postage stamp sized screen to watch it back smoothly.

Or, maybe your dedicated connection is still lousy for actual streaming. Annoyingly, the speedtest doesn't actually measure that. I wish it did...

I'm guessing that it's because Youtube is encoding it to 720p due to the fact that I'm not "premium."

 

[AaronD]

I'm guessing that it's because Youtube is encoding it to 720p due to the fact that I'm not "premium."

When I first started streaming my church's services, it was 1080p30 right off the bat, with a brand new account. No waiting.

Maybe things have changed since then, but do check the playback settings in YT's video window.

 

[TheJovialBrit]

When I first started streaming my church's services, it was 1080p30 right off the bat, with a brand new account. No waiting.

Maybe things have changed since then, but do check the playback settings in YT's video window.

Yeah but that's different because it's not fast paced gameplay with a lot going on.

 

[Icetoseeyouu]

I'll answer here because i have the solution to your problem, but it involve reencoding your video. I had the same problem as you, that is every time there was fast paced gameplay in my video, it would start getting blurry. And that's because youtube use kind of a crappy codec if you upload in 720p or 1080p and you have not a lot of views. The solution to that is to reencode your video in 1440p (even if you didn't record it this way) at 30 or 60 fps, and the blurriness will go away. It's not an obs fault, it's a youtube fault

 

[AaronD]

I'll answer here because i have the solution to your problem, but it involve reencoding your video. I had the same problem as you, that is every time there was fast paced gameplay in my video, it would start getting blurry. And that's because youtube use kind of a crappy codec if you upload in 720p or 1080p and you have not a lot of views. The solution to that is to reencode your video in 1440p (even if you didn't record it this way) at 30 or 60 fps, and the blurriness will go away. It's not an obs fault, it's a youtube fault

If *that's* the case, then you don't actually *reencode* it. You just produce it in OBS at that size to start with. Reencoding and scaling both lose quality.

 

[Icetoseeyouu]

That is the solution. No need for any * here, and i was saying "reencode" just in case he wanted his videos already uploaded to not be blurry anymore on youtube. Of course if he record new videos, it would be best to have them at 1440p from the start. So yes, if you reencode a 1080p to 1440p, you will lose a bit of quality, but still really less than what youtube make you lose with the crappy codec.