soulreaver2662
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Hey everyone,
Was wondering if anyone here ever streams to YouTube at a bitrate higher than 18,000?
If you do, do you ever see your bitrate go higher than that on OBS? I set my bitrate to 24,000 and have yet to see it go higher than a constant 18,000 (CBR of course). It doesn't go higher than 18,000 even if i set it to 32,000.
My bitrate doesn't spike much while streaming as i've set my custom buffer to 1000. Could that be the cause? I'm not an expert on bitrates/buffers, but i'm pretty sure the only thing streaming without a custom buffer would do is cause massive spikes and i'm gonna guess it isn't the reason why my CBR doesn't go higher than 18,000.
Funnily enough, i see that the max bitrate recommendation given by YouTube here https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?hl=en is exactly 18,000 kbps. I wasn't aware that they could cap it like that on my end (with OBS).
(My upload is 300mbps and i do not get any regular errors or dropouts feeding YouTube at 18,000 and i'm aware that YouTube dishes out bitrate to viewers depending on the res/fps, so a 1080p 60fps stream will be capped at about 9,000kbps for viewers)
Example of streaming at 1080p 60fps 18,000 bitrate here: https://youtu.be/VSHjR-9r9kA
Was wondering if anyone here ever streams to YouTube at a bitrate higher than 18,000?
If you do, do you ever see your bitrate go higher than that on OBS? I set my bitrate to 24,000 and have yet to see it go higher than a constant 18,000 (CBR of course). It doesn't go higher than 18,000 even if i set it to 32,000.
My bitrate doesn't spike much while streaming as i've set my custom buffer to 1000. Could that be the cause? I'm not an expert on bitrates/buffers, but i'm pretty sure the only thing streaming without a custom buffer would do is cause massive spikes and i'm gonna guess it isn't the reason why my CBR doesn't go higher than 18,000.
Funnily enough, i see that the max bitrate recommendation given by YouTube here https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?hl=en is exactly 18,000 kbps. I wasn't aware that they could cap it like that on my end (with OBS).
(My upload is 300mbps and i do not get any regular errors or dropouts feeding YouTube at 18,000 and i'm aware that YouTube dishes out bitrate to viewers depending on the res/fps, so a 1080p 60fps stream will be capped at about 9,000kbps for viewers)
Example of streaming at 1080p 60fps 18,000 bitrate here: https://youtu.be/VSHjR-9r9kA