Question / Help Want to stream higher than 720p.

[Cody Schlotfeld]

I am just wondering whether or not I can stream at higher than 720p, like 900p, but there is no setting in which I can select. I tried 1080p and my computer had no issue doing it but the playback was relatively grainy ( though I was at 4200kbps). I am not partnered so I'm mainly just looking for options to give myself a better looking stream.

 

[Harold]

Increasing the resolution won't give you a better looking stream.

 

[Benman2785]

for quality improvements of your stream you can add bitrate -> 720p30 looks pretty nice with 5000kbps
you also can use slower preset for h264 -> results in better quality - but also higher CPU load

 

[Cody Schlotfeld]

Increasing the resolution won't give you a better looking stream.

Clearly just that alone will not but 1080 is much better looking than 720 when properly supported so I'm looking for something to go up to. My internet is not really limiting and my CPU is decent so.

 

[Benman2785]

dude - if you want to stream on twitch (non-partner) you can decide: 1080p30 or 720p60 (or 720p30) -> they will look good with min 5000kbps bitrate and still fits twitchs rules
but have in mind - you will have fewer people able to watch your stream (bad/slow or mobile internet) -> so if u already have some viewers ask them what they can handle

1080p60 needs min 8000kbps to look ok -> 25000kbps would be fine -> but both CANT be streamed on twitch

ps 720p30 looks good with 3500kbps ;)
pps - all depending on encoder:
h264 is on CPU (the slower the preset the better the quality and also higher load on cpu)
NVenc - is done by Nvidia GPU (and partly by CPU) - looks pretty good, may result in input lag
AMD AMF - AMD GPU does the magic - looks okay - we need to wait for AMD to fix some requests and Xaymar to release 2.1.0 to vastly improve quality

 

[Cody Schlotfeld]

Thanks for letting me know that I use nvenc and have had some rather ridiculous input lag so just knowing that makes me feel a bit better. I guess I'll just stay within the guidelines you're suggesting

 

[Maelas]

Regarding alienating low bandwidth viewers, I am seeing more and more that the average viewer on twitch uses steam, who also posts the average bandwidth per country. According to these charts, the average view has more than 10mb/s. This doesnt factor in shared bandwidth in a household I dont think. But I do think that its safe to say the people who wont be able to see your stream is very minimal, unless they have great internet but a poor connection to Twitch specifically...then, yea...