zfleeman
New Member
Good morning!
I've been streaming a lot more, recently, and I'm having a general quality concern. Last night, I was streaming with my Elgato HD60 (USB 2.0) in OBS with a webcam + image box overlay along with a couple browser sources. With my setup, my CPU (i7-7700K) was always around 60%, which I expected. I was playing some Mario Kart 8 to get a feel for how the encoding would handle a faster-moving video source. I am going to be streaming a bunch of Smash Bros. this weekend, and I wanted to make sure it didn't look ugly. When I watched the stream back, I was disappointed to see how muddy things looked given my output settings.
Here is a timestamped video URL of what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/3438lL5k7lg?t=1641
Here is a picture of my output settings https://i.imgur.com/lfUuVhT.png, and here is a bulleted list:
Video tab:
Output tab:
I guess my main question is: does the quality of my output match my settings? I've streamed some Mega Man 11 at 1080/60 in the past at 4,500kbps, and it looked so much better than this video. Granted, Mega Man 11 hardly has any camera movement to befuddle an encoder. Smash will be a similar, lower-movement game, but I just want to make sure that I'm getting the best quality from my setup.
And I'm sorry that I don't have a log file right now. I took that screenshots this morning and forgot to upload the log to my dropbox as well.
I've been streaming a lot more, recently, and I'm having a general quality concern. Last night, I was streaming with my Elgato HD60 (USB 2.0) in OBS with a webcam + image box overlay along with a couple browser sources. With my setup, my CPU (i7-7700K) was always around 60%, which I expected. I was playing some Mario Kart 8 to get a feel for how the encoding would handle a faster-moving video source. I am going to be streaming a bunch of Smash Bros. this weekend, and I wanted to make sure it didn't look ugly. When I watched the stream back, I was disappointed to see how muddy things looked given my output settings.
Here is a timestamped video URL of what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/3438lL5k7lg?t=1641
Here is a picture of my output settings https://i.imgur.com/lfUuVhT.png, and here is a bulleted list:
Video tab:
- 1920x1080 canvas
- 1280x720 output
- Lanczos
- 60fps
Output tab:
- x264
- CBR at 5,000kbps
- Medium preset
- Main profile
I guess my main question is: does the quality of my output match my settings? I've streamed some Mega Man 11 at 1080/60 in the past at 4,500kbps, and it looked so much better than this video. Granted, Mega Man 11 hardly has any camera movement to befuddle an encoder. Smash will be a similar, lower-movement game, but I just want to make sure that I'm getting the best quality from my setup.
And I'm sorry that I don't have a log file right now. I took that screenshots this morning and forgot to upload the log to my dropbox as well.