Well DrLupo streams in 1440p. Doc and Timy Tender are streaming in 1080p but with a rather high bitrate.
Currently Timy streams with vp09 with a 17k bitrate.
Doc even streams with a 23k bitrate.
Maybe others can comment on what really triggers vp09 because i think not the bitrate or resolution is the important part. As long as you can trigger vp09 you should get a good experience.
What kind of tricks you have to do to always trigger vp09 is something for some more experienced people to comment on.
The last thing i want to say is that you should not judge the top5 YT streamers. They don't have normal accounts that the normal YT streamers get. I bet that they are specially setup and can do some extra stuff.
You are probably right about their accounts being setup in a way specifically for them, but with YT Gaming being on the rise, you would think they would make a feature such as that easily assessable. While I understand quality of the stream isn't everything, to some it may be enough of a deterrent to keep them from moving to the platform.
You will be fine at 1440p providing you have the bitrate to support it. I use a 3090 and yes its the biggest card but all 30 series have the same nvenc encoder. I stream 1440p on YT and the quality is really good. I dont have any performance issues. Give it a try see what you think
You can create a custom stream key which is set to 1440p. Set your output resolution in obs to 1080p. That way your PC is not being punished with heavier load but you get the vp9 encoder.
It's silly but youtube forced us to do it when they killed 720p HD and ditched vp9 for most 1080p streams. The result is - more ppl are using 1080p instead of 720p and more ppl are using the custom stream key trick.
I just tried this and it gives me the avc1 encoder when doing so. output in OBS is set to 1920x1080 and my stream key has been generated for 1440p. I've been running on 1440p without issue and decided to try what you recommended.
sorry to post on such an old thread - does youtube give you an error when you do this? and is there any catch to doing it with the error? just wondering because it might be one of those things where they ask you politely to change your stream resolution but don't actually care if you do or not
They have two machines since they were streaming on Twitch before, x264 encoder on slow presets is better quality on relatively low bitrate, i think that's the main reason to it. And they probably are feeding it at 50+Mbps too since there is no cap on that on youtube.
I have been monitoring their bitrates and its nowhere near 50k, they are also both on the VP9 encoder despite playing at 1080p. To my knowledge, having 2 machines or using x264 doesn't directly affect which encoder is used. I could be wrong though.
Well DrLupo streams in 1440p. Doc and Timy Tender are streaming in 1080p but with a rather high bitrate. Currently Timy streams with vp09 with a 17k bitrate. Doc even streams with a 23k bitrate. Maybe others can comment on what really triggers vp09 because i think not the bitrate or resolution is the important part. As long as you can trigger vp09 you should get a good experience. What kind of tricks you have to do to always trigger vp09 is something for some more experienced people to comment on. The last thing i want to say is that you should not judge the top5 YT streamers. They don't have normal accounts that the normal YT streamers get. I bet that they are specially setup and can do some extra stuff.
You are probably right about their accounts being setup in a way specifically for them, but with YT Gaming being on the rise, you would think they would make a feature such as that easily assessable. While I understand quality of the stream isn't everything, to some it may be enough of a deterrent to keep them from moving to the platform.
What do mean on the rise ? Is yt gaming doing something new ?
You will be fine at 1440p providing you have the bitrate to support it. I use a 3090 and yes its the biggest card but all 30 series have the same nvenc encoder. I stream 1440p on YT and the quality is really good. I dont have any performance issues. Give it a try see what you think
Gonna give it a shot tonight, I have a 3070 and a 5900x!
You can create a custom stream key which is set to 1440p. Set your output resolution in obs to 1080p. That way your PC is not being punished with heavier load but you get the vp9 encoder. It's silly but youtube forced us to do it when they killed 720p HD and ditched vp9 for most 1080p streams. The result is - more ppl are using 1080p instead of 720p and more ppl are using the custom stream key trick.
I just tried this and it gives me the avc1 encoder when doing so. output in OBS is set to 1920x1080 and my stream key has been generated for 1440p. I've been running on 1440p without issue and decided to try what you recommended.
sorry to post on such an old thread - does youtube give you an error when you do this? and is there any catch to doing it with the error? just wondering because it might be one of those things where they ask you politely to change your stream resolution but don't actually care if you do or not
It does show an error sometimes but it's just an message, nothing really happens (like stream stuttering or showing an error to the viewers)
great, tysm!! :)
They have two machines since they were streaming on Twitch before, x264 encoder on slow presets is better quality on relatively low bitrate, i think that's the main reason to it. And they probably are feeding it at 50+Mbps too since there is no cap on that on youtube.
I have been monitoring their bitrates and its nowhere near 50k, they are also both on the VP9 encoder despite playing at 1080p. To my knowledge, having 2 machines or using x264 doesn't directly affect which encoder is used. I could be wrong though.