NEW: AV1/HEVC Support for Streams! Higher Quality FREE for Streamers

YouTube has now fully rolled out support for AV1 and HEVC/H.265 streams on YouTube. What does this mean? Free quality if you're a streamer with the same (or even less) bitrate! Assuming you have relatively new hardware for HEVC, or really new hardware for AV1, you can easily apply these settings changes for a considerable bump in quality!

I also go through another way you can increase the quality of YouTube streams by upscaling.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro/Explanation
0:16 - What it means for viewers & creators
0:56 - Requirements for streaming with HEVC/H.265
1:12 - Requirements for streaming with AV1
1:36 - What this means for streamers, simply
2:00 - Setting YouTube RTMPS as streaming server
2:16 - Setting H264/AVI for streaming
2:56 - AV1 options & CPU streaming AV1
3:48 - What about bitrate? No need to change!
4:17 - Will viewers see a difference? Yes!
5:00 - Even more quality free for streamers (Upscaling)
7:26 - How much bitrate should streamers use?

#YouTube #Streaming #Tips
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Everything in this video is my personal opinion and experience and should not be considered professional advice. Always do your own research and ensure what you're doing is safe.

[KajzerD]

Finally more people are talking about this, I made a video about it a while ago, this is huge for Streaming, especially on AMD cards

[SmaugMedia]

AV1 is honestly amazing 8, 000kbps looked completely usable at 1440p downscaled from 4K source

[Nasty_Pixels]

There is sneaky/performance way to do 2k on YT. Just make stream from browser like use to and create streeam key with 2k resoliution, while in OBS all resoliutions in 1080p.Start stream from browser and in obs start also but select your already created stream "existing broadcast" this way your machine encode 1080p and YT things it's 2k and transcode/upscale it to 2k and giving vp9 encoder. Sure native 2k better, but if you need performance on 1 pc setup it helps alot

[DizConnected]

I think if you use HEVC you can also stream HDR to YouTube, AV1 can't do it yet but I think YouTube will allow it some time in the future. Now I upped my quality, now up yours!

[outbreak_monkey]

I have AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 8-Core 3.8ghz 16GB processor, paired with GeForce RTX 4070 OC 12GB card. My upload is 22 mbps speed. I have my kbps set to 18, 000 and Encoder set to H.264. I use stream key 1440p from YouTube. What should my settings be? I am a new streamer and trying to get these settings dialed in. I run the game on low settings also for better performance.

[Kbalz]

I use AV1 on my Nvidia 4070ti... After about 10 minutes of streaming, YouTube stops accepting bits from my upload and obs drops to zero upload.

[jkash]

what internet plan do you have exactly? Im also a south african and most plans here arent good at all and when they really do run at high internet speed they have alot of downtime spikes

[gimptoast]

What if you use HLS for 3440X1440 does HEVC still work properly with that on YT streaming?

[fearless_tr]

But for hevc stream, hls recomended isnt ?

[miisotrash]

Can 1650 super stream at these settings?

[idcrafter-cgi]

This is also nice for mobile data if you have a pixel 6 or higher phone cuz they can decode AV1

[iamSamOfficial]

can you do that was mentioned in min 6:04; if yuo stream to twich? send them a 2k even though you have a 1080 monitor? or is it only applicable to youtube?

[botlifegamer]

HEVC has been in OBS for awhile now. not really new. AV1 thought is knew.

[VeronicaV]

Your voice - Yum... Like butta 🧈 - Also, ty for the helpful video.

[xxxgamingmachine]

Thanks for the video and amazing information bro 🫡