Question / Help OBS recording quality is really bad for the past 2-3 weeks

[adrian diaz]

Hey everybody. I'm new to OBS and to the forum.

I'm using OBS to capture my screen and to do live streams on Youtube as well. Everything was good until a couple of weeks ago when all of the sudden and for no reason OBS started to produce really bad quality vids and I don't seem to understand what went wrong. There's a log file below to make it easier for you guys.

https://obsproject.com/logs/Txro5VlN4O64Rnv6

I'd love to hear your opinions on this. If you need more details please let me know and I'll provide it.

Thanks,

Adrian

 

[BluePeer]

IDK what you mean with "Bad" Quallity

in log is a record with VBR 40K for 720P60
"not the best" CQP 20-10 (Lower better quallity) best choice

at 40K bitrate idk if that makes problems too but VBR wrong there

13:53:47.013: 2-pass: false <--- true
13:53:47.013: b-frames: 2 <-- i prefer 0 (CQP does not realy need)
13:53:47.013: lookahead: true <-- false(with 0 Bframe useless)
13:53:47.013: psycho_aq: true

without details over the "Bad"

 

[adrian diaz]

IDK what you mean with "Bad" Quallity

in log is a record with VBR 40K for 720P60
"not the best" CQP 20-10 (Lower better quallity) best choice

at 40K bitrate idk if that makes problems too but VBR wrong there

13:53:47.013: 2-pass: false <--- true
13:53:47.013: b-frames: 2 <-- i prefer 0 (CQP does not realy need)
13:53:47.013: lookahead: true <-- false(with 0 Bframe useless)
13:53:47.013: psycho_aq: true

without details over the "Bad"

Thanks for your reply. Here are a couple of links to videos I've made with OBS

This is before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZQEi9J3s7Q&t=19s

This is now:
https://youtu.be/YpOKd6lwHoU

 

[BluePeer]

that are too different videos

One 1080P30 and one 720P60


try one of the other downscale filter: Bicubic

Looks for me not like a Bad encode more then a bad downscale

 

[carlmmii]

Are you basing the quality of video off of your local recordings, or the quality of the youtube video?

YouTube will always reprocess every video, meaning it re-encodes it entirely using its own settings. Lower resolutions usually get lower bitrates... and there's also a huge quality difference between a video that's encoded with youtube's VP9 encoder vs the standard AVC encoder.