How to Stream/Record your rounds for upload to Twitch as required by Tour Guidelines

[JohnMeyer]

Give it ya best effort pal, just make sure you've had a read through The New Player Setup Guide Thread, and you're familiar with the website, the method on how to fill in your scores and stats and also how the handicap system effects you. Welcome to the Tour

[Willymakit]

So last night I did a practise round using streaming to twitch. After I finished round I went back to see how it turned out. And not sure if my eyes are going or if it's just blurry. I have everything on the lowest settings and still have same results when set on automatic it higher. I am using gamecaster the other program to record game. Any suggestions

Name is willymakit2k. So check out the video and see what I can correct.

[JohnMeyer]

I'll have a look later on. So the video on there is using low settings? If so may be a little blurry. Are you saying even if you increase the settings, eg reduce the downscale value, it's still blurry?

[JohnMeyer]

Jason

Just watched it back and as you say is very blurry.. have a read of this and if you wanna try the links this is from

https://support.xsplit.com/forum/faq.php

What settings for Quality, VBV Max Bitrate and VBV Buffer and Preset should I use? Usually Quality that is set to about 7 to 8 will produce a good quality stream and will not suck you dry of bandwidth. VBV Max Bitrate should be set to match your available upload bandwidth while matching the resolution - see this table: 480p: 500-1000kbps 720p: 1500-3000kbps 1080p: 3000-5000kbps Remember that your viewers will have to be able to download the rate you choose*, so don't set it too high. (We recommend using the bandwidth testerto help you figure this out). Setting a high Quality without providing enough bitrate to accommodate this will not provide the desired results - for example, setting quality to 10, resolution to 720p and a VBV Max Bitrate to 200 kbps will be nonsense.

If you set quality between 7 to 8, then we have some very rough guidelines as to what bitrate may be required for video game streaming:

VBV Buffer should be set to a value corresponding to the Flash player buffer. The flash buffer is in most cases unknown so set it to 1 to 2 times the VBV Max Bitrate corresponding to a 1 to 2 second Flash player buffer.

The VBV Max Bitrate is the rate at which the buffer is filled, so, technically, you should get better results with a higher buffer as this will allow the discrete bitrate of your stream to fluctuate more (as required) to maintain your required quality. But if the Flash player buffer is set to 2 seconds, you should not set your VBV Buffer higher than 2 x VBV Max Bitrate. You must also consider the audio bitrate, but try to stick with the default values for buffer, which is automatically changed to a suggested value (depending on the channel plug-in) as you change or set your VBV Max Bitrate.

As for the Preset, "veryfast" is typically a good starting point, unless you have an extremely powerful cpu, in which case you can choose a "slower" value. This means that the encoder is using more advanced and more demanding algorithms/methods to compress your stream better. It might also lower your output bitrate as the encoder will compress the video stream more (though still without loss of quality). However, you must never let any of your cores max out, because then your stream+game may start to lag.

If you want to know more about Quality, VBV-Buffer, VBV-Maxrate and Preset Settings, please read this little write-up. *) Unless you are partnered with your stream service provider and therefore provides multiple resolution options to the viewer.