Looking Pixelated with Motion

I have a decent PC and connection but my stream, vods and recordings dont look as good as I expected. When I view my stream with movement occurring the image looks sharp but the action isnt smooth. When viewing the vod and recording it looks pixelated in areas of movement. Syetem: CPU: IntelĀ® Coreā„¢ i9-12900K; RAM: 64GB DDR5 5600; MOBO: ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-G GAMING WIFI; GPU: RTX3080TI-O12G; Storage: 1TB M.2 NVMe & Two 1TB SSD's; Monitors: ASUS ROG Strix XG27AQ, Dell P2213 & ASUS VG248 ; PSU: 1000W Corsair RM 1000X. Internet is 600MB up and down, AT&T Uverse. OBS Screen Shots attached. I have my bitrate as it is because when it was set at 6k it kept exceeding 6k and Twitch has a 6k limit. I want to stream and record at the same time with the best quality I can on 1 PC. I thought my settings were good according to how I understood it all. When I look at others vods they look way better than mine. Like this one of mine: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1914294706 fast forward to 1:56:00 for a good example, especially in the dark areas. My recordings look like that as well. Its pixelated and I hate it, lol! Once again I humbly beg for help.
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Fcenturylink
Fcenturylinkā€¢15mo ago
Don't send 1440p to twitch Especially at such a low bitrate like 5300 I imagine that's gonna look like ass for anything but talking head or text only
Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢15mo ago
So even if the BR is 6k still dont send 1440p?
Fcenturylink
Fcenturylinkā€¢15mo ago
Correct
Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢15mo ago
So that would be my "rescale output" on the streaming tab, not "output (scaled) resolution" on the video tab.... ? I also feel like using a different encoder for recording while I stream, as others have recommended, would be ok on my system. Also.. is it ok to set the BR at 6K with the Twitch 6k limit? Mine peaks over 6k often when set at 6k.
Fcenturylink
Fcenturylinkā€¢15mo ago
6K isn't the actual "limit" It's their recommended limit And yes, you shouldn't use "stream encoder" for recording And to send one resolution to twitch, while also still recording at native res(preferred), you'd have to indeed rescale in the output tab
Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢15mo ago
Only 2 encoders are available under the streaming tab, NVIDIA NVENC H.264 and x264. The recording tab has more options. I see conflicting info when I do searches.. I think I am suffering from information overload at this point.
Fcenturylink
Fcenturylinkā€¢15mo ago
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Fcenturylink
Fcenturylinkā€¢15mo ago
Because how you have it set, recordings are set to be exactly what the stream is
Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢15mo ago
Do i use NVIDIA NVENC H.264 for both or a different encored for one of them?
Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢15mo ago
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Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢15mo ago
Ok final question on the matter.... if my CPU can handle it, is x264 at slower recommended over NVIDIA NVENC?
Flaeri
Flaeriā€¢15mo ago
idk if there is a "correct" answer to that. Its close enough to the point where its preference imo. Some may prefer one or the other. See what you like. Personally, I would not bother and just stick with nvenc
JayGarrick
JayGarrickā€¢15mo ago
I just know that setting it to slower raises the CPU temp of the extra extra work itā€™s doing. Plus you mentioned you want to game on top of that so thereā€™s that question when youā€™re gaming normally what your temp and CPU usage is
Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢15mo ago
Got it all looking acceptable!!! Thanks again! After tryn a couple of things I settled on Output (Scaled) Res at 1080P using Lanczos; No rescaled output on streaming or recording tabs; with CQP at 20.
HunterAP
HunterAPā€¢15mo ago
Just making sure that you're only recording with CQP and not streaming with it
Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢15mo ago
Yes. Just recording. I am still experimenting too.
Fcenturylink
Fcenturylinkā€¢15mo ago
Well, you can set cqp for streaming, but it will just silently tell you to go fuck yourself and use cbr anyways
Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢14mo ago
But yeah I got CBR on streaming. Would I perhaps be able to bump it up above 6k while streaming to Twitch and have better quality? At what point does Twitch actually cut it off so to speak?
Fcenturylink
Fcenturylinkā€¢14mo ago
When I had fiber I was sending 7750 Usually 8000+ is when shit goes breaky breaky
Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢14mo ago
Using CQP for recording do i leave Keyframe Interval at 0? or 2 like my streaming setting using CBR?
Fcenturylink
Fcenturylinkā€¢14mo ago
I set keyframes at 1 for recording More keyframes = better seekability and more precise cut points
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Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢14mo ago
I set it to 7k and it was all over the place. I never seen it fluctuate within such a wide range. Sometimes it would dip into the 4k's and then other times it would peak up in the 9k's. I scanned over the VOD today and its the best looking VOD i have had yet. I guess the results speak for themselves. But i am going to test out 8k next.
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Flux Reversal
Flux Reversalā€¢14mo ago
@str8chillaxin So, even though I have the capacity and capability to do so it essentially is bottlenecked by twitch.... right? It definitely looked better but I also thought it could look even better and that could probably be because of what you mentioned I assume. I will definitely try it out. So why exactly is 4k better? Are you saying it has to do with the ability of the viewer to actually have a "watchable" experience? Where things like their connection and/or hardware limits their ability to watch a better quality stream/vod? While I understand that network and HW limitations affect a users experience on a particular device I didn't think the quality of the stream I was pushing was impacted by things like that on the viewers end. Just making sure I understand what you are saying by saying it myself.. lol.
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Flux Reversalā€¢14mo ago
Children... the word of the day is "TRANSCODING"
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