Your system might let you stream lower kbps and record at 20,000kbps at the same time. On a separate note, you can go way higher (20,000kbps) if you are recording.

Better still, if it will autofocus correctly or you do it manually yourself, it will look better. But that will make the distant players pixelate. Or, the other way, focus on some ice closer to you. I'm also wondering if you can point the camera at the ice towards the goal (if you are sat in the middle) and tell it to focus there. It might have some settings related to exposure or presets you can try that will make it brighter /cleaner. If it lets you get 1080p (OBS will downscale but 1080p to 864 looks better than the other way around and upscaling) I feel like the camera itself could give you some better visual quality in the settings too, but I don't know about the model/menu available. Remove your Recent Items (Apple logo top left corner, RECENT ITEMS, CLEAR MENUĪll of these numbers are based on this calculator. Shrink the OBS screen down so that the Preview video is smaller (this uses up less CPU) Remove items from the desktop and put them somewhere else Ensure everything else is closed ESPECIALLY Chrome. Stream Bitrate 4301kbps (this was calculated based on the link at the bottom of this page)Įxtra tweaks for Mac that take up CPU / RAM In order to give your audience a lower enough bitrate so that people can watch it streamed live (the max is around 4500kbps) I recommend the following: To do this, you'd need to set everything up so there is no Downscaling and try some tweaks at the bottom of this post.

Apparently, the AMD Graphics are really only very good performers when recording above 10,000kbps but smaller bitrates required for streaming are not so great to look at. You could try and use x.264 instead of Apple VT Hardware AMD on the Output. Lancozos Sharpened downscaling is best for in-person video but not so good for fast paced gaming.Īudio Quality 320kbps if you want the highest audio quality but you can easily lower this to 192 or 256kbps No Downscaling settings here (see Streaming) This avoids the need for just going over the 4500kbps threshhold 6000kbps for 1080p. I've stumbled across a few people stating the benefits of 864p to resolve this issue and have nice high streaming quality for viewers so I have recommend you also try these two scenarios. Or their hardware just can't handle it, they have too many browser tabs open, etc etc etc. It's either because they are in a network that is shared with other people and devices, netflix etc, or they are walking around on 4G / LTE and the signal strength goes up and down. What is abundantly obvious is that as soon as you go past around 4500kbps, a portion of your viewers get 'buffering' issues and either complain to you and leave or (more commonly.) just leave. I'm testing similar things to you at the minute.

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