Question / Help OBS Recordings looking wavy after doing nothing?

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GlitchPhD

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So I use OBS kind of often for speedrunning. I've never had a problem with it before. However, only recently have I been noticing that some of the newer recordings look really blocky and wavy. I'm pretty confused, as I have done nothing as far as I know with the settings to make it look like this. Streaming quality looks perfectly fine though, so I don't know exactly what's going on with the recordings. I have tried a number of different encoders, and even have raised the bitrate up by quite a lot, but I don't feel that it is necessary to do so, as normally with 2000 kbps video bitrate it looks perfectly fine. Included in this thread are screenshots of the options I have set for video, encoding, and a Youtube video showing this horrendous quality footage. If there's anyone knowledgeable as to what I'm doing wrong, please let me know. Thank you in advance.

http://imgur.com/a/hpYJq - The screenshots of the options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKrSZbYPTMM - The recording of the horrible quality.
 
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vencabot

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GlitchPhD said:
Oh I do apologize, this should be the correct one.
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Damn, OBS Studio's log doesn't list FFMPEG options being used? Lame. It just says that you're using OBS's custom FFMPEG output.

I think we're gonna need a copy-paste or a screenshot of your output settings then, hommes.
 
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GlitchPhD

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vencabot said:
Damn, OBS Studio's log doesn't list FFMPEG options being used? Lame. It just says that you're using OBS's custom FFMPEG output.

I think we're gonna need a copy-paste or a screenshot of your output settings then, hommes.
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The original post I made contains screenshots of the recording encoding settings and the video settings. Or are you talking about something else?
 
Harold

Harold

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Switch your output mode back to simple, recording quality to indistinguishable, format to flv and encoder to software low cpu use.
 
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vencabot

Member
Thanks, man -- sorry, I didn't notice. Are you sure that you didn't mess with OBS Studio's FPS options, in the Video preferences? I see that you're recording at 2,000kbps, which is somewhat low even for a halfway-decent looking 720p30fps stream, let alone a 720p60fps YouTube recording.

That's all that I can think of, and I can see how maybe you might've changed it thinking it was harmless? I can't imagine a 2,000kbps HD 60fps video looking much better than that. Seems like the bitrate is way too low for 60fps but would be adequate for 30fps.

Try changing the FPS (back?) to 30 and seeing if the problem persists? Good luck, my friend!
 
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GlitchPhD

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Harold said:
Switch your output mode back to simple, recording quality to indistinguishable, format to flv and encoder to software low cpu use.
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This seems to have done the job. Thank you so much. I just don't exactly know what happened to make it look so bad. I don't think I really changed anything.
 
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