Question / Help Please help with setting up obs for my pc.

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Larwa

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koala

koala

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You will always have black bars, if the aspect ratio of the item you are recording is different from the aspect ratio of the viewing application.

Since streaming has fixed aspect ratios of (in case of youtube): 1080p (1920x1080), 720p (1280x720), 480p (854x480), 360p (640x360), you are bound to these aspect ratios. All of these are 16x9, and if you feed footage with a different aspect ratio, the streaming service will add black bars.
Almost all current monitors are 16x9 aspect ratio, so if you view material with different ratio fullscreen, black bars are added.
If you have a 4:3 monitor and record fullscreen with that aspect ratio, and your viewers have a 16x9 monitor, they will have black bars. It's the same as on TV when you watch old material from the 19xx's on your modern 16x9 TV.

What you can do, if you cannot afford a 16x9 monitor:
Set a resolution of 1280x720 instead of 1920x1024 for your game and record this with a base resolution of 1280x720. This way only you will have black bars, produced by your monitor, but not your recordings, not your stream, not your viewers.
 
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Garuda

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Right click on your source, go to transform and click 'stretch to screen'. Make sure you're video output is at 16:9, which obviously it should already be as you're getting black bars.
 
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Larwa

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koala said:
You will always have black bars, if the aspect ratio of the item you are recording is different from the aspect ratio of the viewing application.

Since streaming has fixed aspect ratios of (in case of youtube): 1080p (1920x1080), 720p (1280x720), 480p (854x480), 360p (640x360), you are bound to these aspect ratios. All of these are 16x9, and if you feed footage with a different aspect ratio, the streaming service will add black bars.
Almost all current monitors are 16x9 aspect ratio, so if you view material with different ratio fullscreen, black bars are added.
If you have a 4:3 monitor and record fullscreen with that aspect ratio, and your viewers have a 16x9 monitor, they will have black bars. It's the same as on TV when you watch old material from the 19xx's on your modern 16x9 TV.

What you can do, if you cannot afford a 16x9 monitor:
Set a resolution of 1280x720 instead of 1920x1024 for your game and record this with a base resolution of 1280x720. This way only you will have black bars, produced by your monitor, but not your recordings, not your stream, not your viewers.
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Ok, thanks and how bout the settings for me? bit rates etc?
 
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