THIS is why your livestreams are pixelated... OBS Tutorial 

Hope you found this video useful! I realized shortly after posting that I misspeak at times and say kiloBYTES instead of kiloBITS -- just pretend I always say kilobits so I don't have to re-record this video :)

Can we hype this guy? He was the most descriptive and I've watched several of these tutorials. Good job sir 👌

I just wanted to come back and say that I followed the advice in your video and it turned EVERYTHING around. I actually have good picture and stream quality now, where before it was occasionally blurry, and I really appreciate the help this video gave.

This was actually really helpful. I was expecting to be confused, but this was super straightforward. Thank you.

Out of all the people I watched with help on my pc this guy is easily the best one! Very descriptive and helpful!

Thank you. After a week of trying to figure out my issue, you’ve given me the best feedback yet!

Underrated youtuber bro... keep up the professional explanations! soothing voice too

Thank you so much! This helped out immensly! You made it very easy to understand and to troubleshoot.

Thank you so much !! Simple , quick & very helpful now 🔥 10/10

The most clear and useful video i've watched. Thanks!

Very helpful and probably the best tutorial I have found, thanks.

Thank you so much! This was easy to follow and understand and my recordings/streams look so much better now :D

Thank you BBB. This is really helpful subscribed! 😀

Awesome video man! Thanks for the help!

Thank you beaver, this was a great help, and also entertaining. :)

such a helpful tutorial. you even went as far as showing examples, and telling us what the settings that need tweaked do. you earned my sub, much respect for you.

Your vid just saved me alot of time my friend, thank you. Liked & Subscribed 👍

I appreciate this video a lot, easy to understand and not boring at all. Will see if it helps on my next stream, thank you for the help video.

I like your content bro, your articulation is so good and i can see your video recording skill. Thank you for this video and really good tutorial, helped mi a lot!!! ❤

Nothing new for me but you did it very good. Good information for beginners an the importest info in one video. Good work!

Phenomenal video, amazing tips 👏

Wow. Concise, to-the-point, and excellent comparisons between different settings. Great vid! You've got a great voice btw you ought to be doing sponsored segues.

thank you so much, great video! It has so much useful knowledge.

Thank you this was incredibly helpful!

This video was great! after 1 year im still figuring out bitrate to make my streams look better thanks alot

Truly thank you . This video has been invaluable for helping me with making my stream better for my viewers

Huge help!!! Thanks bud

Last year I started streaming with a low end pc (a laptop, to be precise) for both gaming and streaming. Most of these tips I learned on the run, experimenting with OBS and system settings.

nice tut bro, very explainatory

Very informative and easy to follow instructions. A+ content. Thank you

Thanks for the education on bit rates. Im new to everything tech, I recently bought a PC and im use to simple MAC PCs. Recently came across the low quality coming out of my elgato and came across your video this helped a lot much is appreciated !

thanks for explaining and helping me understand

tnx man.. very informative video...big help..

Great video man

Wow this is so professional and actually helps! Thank you!

Thank you for the explanation, dude! So clearly explained! I understand a lot more of what I am doing.

Thanks, helped a lot

Now this you call an informative video. Double thumbs up 👍for you bro. Very well explanation 👏 👍 👌 When streaming and gaming from a Single PC Setup, it can be quite demanding on both the cpu and GPU, especially when you stream on Twitch. That being said, Twitch servers are way different than RU-vid. If one take the same recommended bitrates of Twitch and use it on RU-vid, there will be No Pixelation, Stutters or Lag. What I liked about this video is that, you explained it in detail and also showed some examples which was really awesome 👌 👏 Liked your vid and you got a sub bro. Much love and respect for you.

Excellente job sir!!

Dude awesome video, you fixed my stream! I appreciate it.

this was a Big help for now i have fixed alot on obs, so thx alot

Thank you i was reviewing my stream and i didnt know how to fix the pixelation of my stream. Thank you again

Thank U for this tutorial video for setting up a Good Stream .

bitrate good but still have this problem

Very well done:)

I don't understand what's going on, I am streaming at 8000 bitrate 1080p, no dropped frames, cpu and gpu are sitting around 30-50% usage yet when I move at all my stream becomes super pixelated.

Well done!

ngl im always trying to improve my streams this is the first of say 50 videos that actually helped

Great Video 👍🏽

Big Big Giga W Video thank you for explaining :D

Very calming video, you have a great delivery style. Sub!

thanks! normally i stream games that doesnt really demand much quality like dota and pokemon but then i noticed this when I played Fallout on stream. In the end i had to drop fps from 60 to 30 due to my connection. Maybe its just copium but i dont see 30fps being bad for streaming games not unless your actual game without the stream is running at the same fps.

Hey quick question, I'm trying to capture a media player and display it on the screen while i stream. I reduce the size of the captured window to make it not so instrusive but it looks really blurry on obs itself is there a way i can keep the crisp clear visuals of the window I'm trying to capture while also making it small enough to not be in the way? feels like when i shrink it I'm losing pixels or something..

Hey does using Ultra Low Latency effect the quality of my stream because I have already done everything you told in the video but my streams still look grainy.

Damn... your the only one i really understood what you where talking about. I never understood what the other meant while they where explaining something. Thx for the video. And sorry for my bad english XD Oh and i have a question. I have a RX 6700 Ti and a Intel i5 12600 Would that be enought to stream doom eternal or other games? I tried making a video of doom eternal because i wantet to test how it looks like. But it had a lot of pixels. But that was the only issue. Do you know what i could do to stream games whit very good graphics?

i thought you were going to talk about it but you kind of skipped over what to do regarding it.. but for the keyframe interval in that situation if you want a better quality stream when movement is happening do you want higher keyframe interval or do we always keep the default of 2?

Thank you Brother! can you make a live stream tutorial on FB Gaming with a 1:1 ratio

Very informative video. Thank you so much! Still a question though. I'm running 2060 (so not that far worse than your 2070) and I have almost the same upload rate as you. But when i streamed Scorn last week on 1080p60fps I had this pixelation like you had in Skyrim. Is it possible that Dark or Darker Games are more demanding on my upload? I fixed it by lowering the resolution to 720p but I dont really like that solution. Any ideas?

Hi there, when I set the Encoder Preset to "Quality" is when my stream looks way better, but that overloads my OBS and makes my stream freeze a lot. Could I get rid of the freezes without setting the preset to Balanced? Thanks for the video!

DAMN!!! Been looking for this thorough & precise explanations & tips for months!!! LOL! Only problem is the discrete gpu of my loptop failed, and is not working anymore. Only have left is x264 and Quicksync. Specs of laptop is i7 8th gen, with 8gbs or ram.. I know this comment is just new after months of this video upload of yours. But I would really appreciate if there's other ways to make my stream more pleasing. Also the upload speed in OOKLA says 80.24, but i think its converted into 9? I guess. Hope for your reply bro. Thanks in advance.

what is your streamlabs obs settings? can you make a vid on it or smth :D nice vid!

one thing i would recommend is changing your webcam to actually face the gameplay of your stream. Having it on the left while your looking straight at the game, makes the stream look like you're looking past the game. Move the webcam overlay to the right, still looking straight at the game, so it looks more pleasing to the viewer that it "looks" like your actually looking at the gameplay on stream. (8:10) is what i'm referring to.

Thank You !

Dude this was epic gamer

what encoder should I use if I played my game on console and using my pc for stream? x264 or nvenc?

thank you bro

CRF / CQP is def better for recording however because it ajust the bitrate to the quality of the end result instead of managing a bitrate cap. what about x265??

Clean.

what do you mean older intel CPU, what gen? I have nvidia GeForce 1050 TI on a laptop and intel i7-7700HQ and the quick sync encoder seems to have better result. still not what I imagine though :D good video, thanks!

Liked, subscribed and finishing the video now and see you all in the discord 🤙

Thanks Mate... i allways got the problem

I would like to add that if you have a slow internet or something, instead of just dropping the bitrate, it can also be useful to drop the framerate (ideally not below 30) or the resolution. As then each pixel gets more of that total bitrate dedicated towards it. A 720p 30fps stream at 3000kbps will always look better than a 1080p 60 fps stream at the same 3000, or even slightly higher like 4000 kbps. Because such a low bitrate will never allow 1080p to be as sharp or 60fps to be as smooth as it can be in more demanding scenes, so in some situations it can look even worse.

It really depends on gpu model, 1660, 2070, 30’s 40’s. Each is a different settings model really in the end. And 6000 bit rate with high motion @ resolution of 1080p will look rough. Static or slow moving games will not be so effected.

so im using amd idk if that matters but im using 6000 bitrate i know i can handle it i have 60 upload speed and it still looks so blurry ive watched maybe 10 videos nothing worked what can i dooooo

i think you should take look at qsv encoder in 11th and 12th gens this encoder slightly beats both nvidia and amd at 3500 bit rate

quick question? what preset are you using on for encoding / what multipass mode do you use .. i have a 3060 gpu an cant seem to get it right

How do you set the bitrate on a playstation 4 pro ? Thanks 👍

I am using a 4060 Graphics card Laptop and streaming through NVENC H.264 on 1080p with 12 mbps bitrate, still it's not even as clear as a 6mbps bitrate. Streams get blurry, eventhough if there is no rendering or encoding lag and the network is perfect. No frames get skipped and the recording also works just fine. But the live stream gets blurrier while moving especially. Any Ideas??

question: does a CPU/GPU mismatch also cause pixelation/stream issues? i just upgraded to a rtx3070 but i only have a i7 7700 and i get stream pixelation no matter what settings i use in obs. so i wonder if its because the GPU is too powerful for the CPU and the CPU is bottlenecking somehow

my gameplay looks fine but my face-cam becomes super blurry after i upload to youtube, do you have any tips for that?

my savior thank you sir

If you want to drastically improve on your visuals, just don’t stream 1080p60. It’s that simple. 1080p is 2.5 times the pixels per second of 720p. And 60FPS is always 2 times the pixels per second, compared to 30 fps. If RU-vidrs upload content in 4K in 60 fps to RU-vid, they choose 50000 Kbit/s (50 Mbit/s) or more. I personally would go for about 60Mbit/s at that case. Luckily I don’t deal with 4K and stick with 1080p60. So 15Mbit/s is Just fine. And surprise, 15 MBit/s is 2.5 times 6000 Kbit/s. Choose 720p60 for 6000 Kbit/s of Bitrate at a key frame every 2 seconds. Set all your cameras and capture cards to Rec.709 and make sure the framerate of all the content captured is the same as well. Not always, the computer display or games console can run a round 60FPS, but actually 59.94FPS. That’s the NTSC standard for „60FPS“, by the way, and windows often enough states a refresh rate like 59.94 or 59.97 as 60FPS. And don’t bother with Full color range, since many capture cards are actually locked into limited color range anyways, even if they fake supporting full range. Just make sure the PC, camera or console behind the capture card does output limited color range as well, so colors don’t look too dark or washed out. Done. This will give you astonishingly good image quality. 1080p60 below at the very least 12500 just looks bad. And even if you could stream like that, who wants to watch a stream like that on their smartphone, especially if you are on a data volume limited „flatrate“? Heck even if you have a real flatrate like that. Receiving a 12.5 Mbit/s live stream can be quite a problem on LTE/4G or 5G.

This is by far the best video about this topic on this platform period.

0:03 its cause its avc codec, but even vp09 still looks like a pixel art when its dark example horror game... youtube streaming is poop cause haven't tested on twitch yet

Great video man, thank you!

What is obs and how do I find the setting for it to change bitrate? Watching people's streams is rubbish when they moving as u said

thanks :)

I will be testing out the bitrate of 3000K CPU at 720p 30fps. Hopefully it'll work nicely on ATS. Back then, I streamed at a lower birate playing sonic the hedgehog and everything looked soo good! Now something changed. I don't understand why they do that for people who has lower upload.

so even if i have ~800mbps download/upload, while streaming on twitch, my limit is only 6k bitrate even though i can handle a lot more? (nvenc encoder, streaming through streamlabs obs)

So how can I upgrade my out scale resolution…monitor?internet? Or graphic card?

Awesome video! Quick question. I just started streaming and followed your settings. I currently get 10 mbps upload and have my bitrate set to 6k output is set to 1080p at 60fps with Nvidia encoder. I’m still getting blurry pixels when moving my character. Do I need to scale down bit rate and resolution? To get rid of that?

I'm not sure why the rumor of partnered streamers on Twitch having a high access to bitrate than everyone else is believed. This simply just isn't the case. I'm not partnered and I stream at 7,900 kb/s with transcoding when it's available. This has been tested pretty extensively among many people and if your bandwidth can afford the bitrate, I suggest anyone to crank up bitrate. The rest of the video is good advice.

Mine worked so well omg!

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I have this issue when recording videos.. Im recording at 1080p because thats my native res and it just looks pixalated and grainy like this..Upping the bitrate helps but slightly. And the quality is still generally crap even though the file size has increased. Using amd gpu/265 encoder

Exactly my Issue too and I'm looking for solving this for weeks now. My example is just another but I guess this counts the same way. I'm trying to make Livestreams from the PS4pro without Capture Card or PC, I know this is horrible but I don't got Money to buy a PC that I would like to have. My Upload gives 25 Mbit/s, Sometimes even 30 Mbit/s but my Stream goes pixelated by faster movement even on 720p at 30fps what should eat about 5 Mbit/s I guess. So what's the Issue at this example?

Thanks.

Sup I got a 14700K with a 4070TI super and 32 gigs of ram at 7000. I got a 1440p monitor and that is how I want to play the games. What should I set the output resolution? 1080p or 720p?

I have a low end pc with ryzen 3 pro 4350g processor without any dedicated graphics card, 16GB Ram will it work for me ?

what settings do you use to stream?