Obs Set to 1080p but youtube only streaming at 720p.

dakchats

New Member
When i go live directly from youtube it streams at 1080p, but when going through obs even with my settings set to 1080p its only streaming at 720p. I cannot find anything to tell me why this is happening. I do not have any capture card in case that helps. Thanks
 

PaiSand

Active Member
Please restart OBS and perform a test stream/recording for more than 30 seconds doing as you normally do, including playing games, full camera or whatever you normally do.

Now look inside Help menu. Upload the current log file and paste the url to the log in here. Click on the Analize button to start troubleshooting common issues.
 

dakchats

New Member
Please restart OBS and perform a test stream/recording for more than 30 seconds doing as you normally do, including playing games, full camera or whatever you normally do.

Now look inside Help menu. Upload the current log file and paste the url to the log in here. Click on the Analize button to start troubleshooting common issues.
okay, ill do that tonight!
 

Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
Also - realize that you can stream to a provider (YouTube in your case) at a given resolution. The watching client device picks the resolution to watch at.
Have you logged into YouTube and confirmed the video is only 720p (vs that being the resolution a client device streams that video at) .... I know obvious/simple... but sometimes overlooked, so just checking the basics

And then there is base canvas and output resolution, which is/can be distinct from streaming resolution. And you can stream and locally record at different resolutions (if your hardware is sufficient for such a workload). So multiple settings to check. And then there is an automatic bandwidth throttle settings, if your WAN uplink isn't sufficient for sustained 1080p
 
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