Thankfully audio doesn’t require too high of an audio bitrate, leaving most of your budget to video. Bitrate is basically the internet upload budget you set for the video and audio quality output. No matter the encoder you choose, what has the biggest effect on improving your live stream quality is bitrate. Photo by Stem List on Unsplash Motion and Bitrate You can also use the older NVENC, VCE, and Quicksync for streaming, but you won’t be able to match the performance of the current NVENC or X264…. The equivalent would be an NVIDIA GPU with the latest NVENC encoder found in the RTX series of GPUs, which will match X264’s medium preset or even outperform it in some instances. If you have to use your CPU for encoding, it’s recommended that you get a CPU with as many cores as possible (up to 32 cores) to try to achieve the slow preset for 1080p 60fps streaming. The problem is when you use these presets, CPU usage rises exponentially which will affect your gameplay drastically unless you’re using a 2 PC streaming setup or aren’t streaming gameplay at all.Īlternatively, on hardware encoders, there tend to be chips dedicated only to encoding, which will limit the amount they’ll affect things like your games’ frame rate. In XSplit Broadcaster you’ll find these presets, very fast, faster, fast, medium, and slow by heading to…īroadcast > Clicking the cog next to your stream output > Clicking the cog in the Video Encoding section > Encoder Preset With X.264, you need to slow down the preset in order to maintain the image quality for higher resolutions and frame rates. The higher the resolution and the faster the frame rate means the encoder has to process more images at larger sizes, something that makes a difference when it comes to improving your live stream quality. So you’re probably wondering, what makes the encoder work so hard? Well, the answer is the resolution and frame rate. This is why in the PC Building guide (below), I recommended buying a GPU for encoding rather than an expensive CPU until you know, crypto mining ruined everything. It is either done by your CPU via X264 and is called software encoding or your GPU via NVENC, VCE or Quicksync and is called hardware encoding.įor a long time, X264 was the absolute best at this encoding process, but now NVENC has established itself on newer NVIDIA RTX (and some GTX) GPUs it is able to go toe to toe with it. This compression part is what takes most of the work for XSplit Broadcaster and it’s a big factor in improving live stream quality. What are encoders? Encoders basically take whatever you’ve put together in your streaming software, (gameplay, face cam, audio), and compress it to send it out to the internet. So today we’re going to talk about stream quality or actually how to properly encode your stream to improve the quality of your live stream. While the first two are very important, people aren’t going to stick around your stream if the video is pixelated and or lags every few seconds. The quality of the content, the production quality, or the quality of the streaming feed itself. Now, stream quality can mean a few things. I think one of the main challenges people encounter when they start streaming is the endless pursuit of stream quality.
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