How to stream in HDR to YouTube with OBS Studio (Complete Workflow Guide)

Today we're looking at how you can stream in HDR to YouTube with OBS Studio right now. It's pretty neat!
[This video was uploaded in HDR. It'll look a little silly until the full HDR version becomes available. Oh well.]

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TIMECODES:
00:00 HDR Streaming is now possible!
00:29 What IS HDR?
01:05 Requirements
02:20 Playing in HDR, but streaming in SDR Guide
04:35 Streaming in HDR guide

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[DTechNation]

Thought I was going crazy, but you repeated the "Supported Capture Cards" segment twice

[dakata]

Can you do a bit of AV1 encodes on the updated encoders so we know what cpus can do what resolution/framerate?

[technocracy]

By any chance do you know how to import OBS recorded HDR videos into Davinci Resolve? It seems like my video is in Rec709, when it's in Rec2020.

[nekuuchihaify]

has streamlabs added this yet or can i just not find it?

[mahavakyas]

If I want to play in HDR but stream in SDR to YouTube while using HEVC encoder, do I still have to change the Color Format and Color Space settings in the 'Advanced' tab to P010 & Rec. 2100 (PQ) or is it enough to just change the Color Space of the Capture Window to Rec. 2100 (PQ)?

My Advanced tab currently shows NV12 and Rec. 709 for those two settings.

[strawz_gaming]

I have been trying to stream Warzone and CS2 in HDR on Youtube. When OBS is on, the colours look fine, just like on my monitor. When I watch the youtube stream, the colours appear washed out and too bright. What is the fix for that ?

[amigoc]

Thanks for the great video! I couldn't find the NVENC HEVC encoder option actually... anyone knows how to turn it on? (note: using a RTX30 GPU)

[pcislocked]

Honestly getting application audio capture integrated into OBS(plugin was fine but you know, more people should use it!) and getting H.265 streaming ability to youtube without messing with ffmpeg outputs is huge for me. Can't wait for the full release, and hopefully plugins will be sorted out by then but I'm a bit skeptical about that since some of them need to be tweaked (or maybe even remade) for HDR as well.

[Atemu]

Somehow the SDR tonemap of this video looked better than usual aswell.

Now that I'm on my HDR screen, there's a ton of noise in your talking head sections. Has that always been there and HDR makes it more obvious or is that new?

[GewelReal]

Me watching this video on my old, cheap TN monitor: ah, yes, HDR

[RNIERI]

Unfortunately, my AVerMedia GC553 is generating a reddish image when I use P010 and all the settings to capture a game in HDR to do the tone mapping for SDR.
I've tried everything possible to get off this reddish image.

[RetroGamesK]

I've tried this, and its works, but the only problem is, on youtube looks like HDR, but doesn't show 4k HDR, and you can't find any resolutions with HDR, any suggestions? I don't use any capture card, only the encoder from the graphics card.

[bss]

Dual PC HDR wont if I clone my gaming card with capturecard. This way HDR automaticly goes off. Any suggestion on workaround for Dual PC?

[lilfurbal]

I seem to be having the weirdest issue that I don't even know how to troubleshoot. I followed these instructions twice on two different computers, have google fiber internet, streaming from obs appears to work just fine and 0 frame drops. When I pull up the stream on the same or different device it is nothing but a slide show, like less than 1 fps. However it is in HDR so that is working. OBS reports that youtube is getting all the frames, but apparently youtube is tossing out hundreds of frames before sending the video back out again. I'm very much at a loss right now.

[GAMINGALEXYT-imbj]

I followed every step from this video & when I try to stream HDR, my GPU goes Extremely hot & The stream lags from viewer's perspective. game runs fine though.
Note: I have an RTX 4070ti (No capture cards)
My internet speed stays above 90 MBPS & I set my bitrate to 30k KbPS.
Here is a sample of my lagging stream. plz help me fix it .

Start watching from 1:22

[Brody]

So just to confirm, if I change the colour input from game capture properties I can play my HDR pc games and still stream to twitch in SDR?

[NoNetPlays]

Does anyone have a free HDR workflow for editing and uploading HDR clips to YouTube from PC???

[BlueRobotMiner]

Can you explain why no matter what bit rate I put in YouTube still gives me a warning for 1080p 60 frames per second that my bit rate is 2000 but my bit rate is higher and it stays at 2000 no matter what bit right I put it at

[eirik]

Fantastic as always Adam! Looking forward to more videos about HDR gaming/streaming. And that's not to mention about AV1 that's coming soon(I hope with Nvidia/AMD/Intels new cards) As always I wish you and the family the best! =D

[SolidMGSnake]

Okay for some reason Youtube HLS is capping the bitrate to somewhere below 20mbps. I cant get any higher than that otherwise the stream will be unstable. This is kinda fucked because I wanted to do high bitrate 4K HDR streams so that I wouldn't have to record. Can you look into this?