Question / Help OBS Advanced Streaming Problems

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JeffTec

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Me and my mate who lives in two different areas of the UK are having the same problem with our OBS settings for Twitch. We have spent many hours trying to configure OBS in many different ways to solve this issue and yes we do understand what everything does in OBS because we have learnt our selves but we are seeking more advanced help to help us with our issue. The issue that we are trying to seek help for is quality, we get major pix-elation on stream and we have tried lots of different settings including changing the CPU preset and we have even tried using the Nvidia encoder with our GPU's. We have also tried streaming to different services besides Twitch for example Hitbox. My Internet speeds are 100 download and 13 upload so this is more than enough to stream in at very least 720p settings. We have also looked at over fellow streamers streams who are running sort of the same specs as us and have really crisp quality streams even know they are streaming a lot lower bitrate than us.

If anyone could help us i would be forever grateful,

Thanks -JeffTec
 
Harold

Harold

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we get major pix-elation on stream and we have tried lots of different settings including changing the CPU preset and we have even tried using the Nvidia encoder with our GPU's
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Nvidia encoder causes MORE pixelation, not less due to the increased bitrate requirements for maintaining quality.

With x264 presets, the slower it sounds, the higher the quality it puts out.
 
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JeffTec

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We have had tests where the bitrate has been between 2000~3000 and with the x264 preset the encoding was on faster.... Preferably we want to be having a fairly/decent looking stream without using a seperate computer to broadcast (bassically using less horse power to play better with only 1 pc) thanks again.
 
Boildown

Boildown

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Listen to what Harold said and post log files. Generalities in, generalities out.

x264 gives you the best quality for your bitrate. NVEnc is only suitable for saving to your hard drive, not streaming. Quicksync is somewhere between the two if you have Haswell. Sandy and Ivy Bridge edition of Quicksync is bad like NVEnc. The lastest Intel Quicksync... well it might be improved but I haven't seen anyone post anything about it yet.

Suffice to say, use x264 if you're bandwidth constrained, which you seem to be, because you're streaming. Perhaps you can beg an OBS log file from the people who's stream you're comparing against so you can accurately try to mimic their settings?
 
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JeffTec

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Yes i understand but most of the time i have been using the x264? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks again.
 
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