NiceThaddy
New Member
NV12? 709? Partial??? It's 2021 and we're still using industry standard settings from over 20 years ago. Why? The same response seems to get parroted back and fourth with no modern evidence supporting it, always telling me "yOu cAnT dO ThAt, iTs aGaInSt tHe sTanDaRdS". You *can* at LEAST use NV12/sRGB/FULL, please stop killing your colors with NV12/709/Partial. Leave that in 2012. You also CAN efficiently use a bitrate of 7,000+ as a non-partner (even up to 7,500), it is NOT "capped at 6k for affiliates". How many people are still streaming in 720p to compensate for quality simply because they *believe* that they're not allowed to use a bitrate higher than 6,000? 720p live streams absolutely should not exist in 2021. Look around at all of the technological advancements we've made in the last 20 years.. Yet for some reason, we're stuck in the past with these settings.. Why? Because someone else said so, and made it so you said so, and made it so *I* said so. Parroted, back and fourth and back and fourth and back and fourth. It's just not true though. Just wanted to let some of y'all know that. I've been streaming as an affiliate with a 7,000 bitrate (12000 buffer size) & NV12/sRGB/Full for quite some time now, playing a very fast motion game at high framerates (apex-180fps) with a 1600x900 resolution & Lanzcos filtering. I use High Quality, two pass encoding, look-ahead, all the bells and whistles. I haven't dropped a single frame in over a month, average time to render frame stays below 2ms at all times (usually 1.2-1.5ms) 0% encoding lag at all times, and 0.01% rendering lag SOMETIMES, not all the time. Vod playback shows a level of quality that competes with partnered apex streamers, and I actually beat a lot of them out. So, pleeeasseeee stop believing and sticking to these ridiculous "standards" that you heard from someone else on a reddit forum who also, heard it from someone else on a reddit forum.. Use the ffpmeg h264/avc encoder, crank up those settings, take your quality to the next level, and get to testing/streaming! Stop holding yourself back! You can do SO much more with OBS/twitch than you would ever imagine. Knowledge is power :)
