Question / Help Pixelation Problems

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Spork829

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I have used OBS for a while now but just recently I have been experiencing problems with pixelation in my videos/streams. On my recent streams, I have seen a noticeable drop in quality with movement, and I simply cannot figure out what is causing it. Here's a test stream I just did at 1080p (no resolution downscale) 25 fps and 3500 max bitrate.The pixelation is quite clear: http://www.twitch.tv/spork829/v/8436494

I know twitch is not the problem because I did a local recording with the same settings and got the same result. Here's my log: https://gist.github.com/34f54f053bb2498d4528

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
 
To be honest that looks pretty fine for 1080p at that bitrate and Minecraft is not the easiest on bitrate usage unfortunately. In general I would recommend to downscale to 720p (normally with 30fps) at about 2000-2500kbit. That should look significantly better and is easier to watch without buffering for possible viewers.
 
That makes sense, it's just that I see a lot of streamers who aren't partnered and their quality seems pretty much prefect. I just thought there would be some way I could stop the blur without downscaling the resolution.
 
Also, I have noticed when I look at OBS while streaming that the value on the bottom right sometimes jumps up 200-300 more than the max bitrate I set. Could that have something to do with it?
 
That sounds normal, you also have to calculate video bitrate + audio bitrate.
Apart of downscaling the only real option is to increase the compression (changing the x264 cpu preset from very fast to faster / fast / medium or similar) But that might be too much for your Processor.
Hence I recommended downscaling first, but you can of course give it a try.
 
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