YouTube Stream looks muddy/blurry/pixelated although I have very good internet and settings in OBS

[djipa]

Hello,

I have the following set-up for streaming on YouTube in 4k 60fps:

• PC with the specs: 4060ti, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB RAM
• Internet with the following "specs": 915 Mbps Download | 945 Mbps Upload
• AverMedia Live Gamer 4k Capture Card connected to my PC and my PS5
• PS5 which I stream games from

The issue is that my Streams and Recordings look horrible. Muddy, blurry, pixelated, I don't know what to call it. I have a hard time understand why this happens. I think I watched over 50 videos yesterday on the "best settings for OBS", and I think I tried all possible combinations and I can't get it to look at least passable. I tried streaming in 4k 60fps and 1440p 60ps, looks the same. I created a Custom 4k 60fps Stream Key on YouTube, but that didn't change anything. I tried the AV1, HEVC and H.264 encoders, and there's almost no difference in quality.
Here are my Output settings for Streaming:

Here's a Log File from today: https://obsproject.com/logs/ytf0t3oMZDoB9871
And here's an example stream from yesterday: https://youtube.com/live/xEJaFOezTCs

 

[PaiSand]

The stream looks not that bad to me. Remember Youtube transcode anything you sent and using 51Mbps HEVC may be too much. Do some tests using 20Mbps, 30 Mbps.
Also, you have a bottleneck within the CPU and GPU. You need a better more modern CPU for this GPU.

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