BITRATE Explained | Best Settings in OBS

What is bitrate for streaming or recording? This video is all about bitrate explained in a way that is practical and simple. What bitrate you should use depends on a lot of factors, but I'll explain them without getting all technical, so you can get right to streaming or recording with confidence.

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00:00 What is Bitrate?
00:29 It's like a Sink?
03:02 Adjusting in Settings
04:28 Limits for Streaming
08:18 Settings, continued
10:09 Bitrate for Recording
13:46 Scale and Size
14:24 Important for Recordings

[SudsyLoofah]

By far the absolutely best explanation of bitrate and walkthrough on OBS on YouTube Thank you.

[preacherplays]

That was.... Insanely helpful and clear. Thank you! Subbed!

[xxLegendaryVikingxx]

This helped so much I was so confused about bitrate when trying to stream on YouTube

[ItsJamzbtw]

Best explanation I've seen so far. Thanks so much for providing me with the information and tools I needed to be able to experiment on my own.

[Dragon_Jewelz]

Thank you so much...my upload was only 4....i was set at 5...i truned it down to 2 and nice steady stream...!!!! yay!!! thank you so much!!

[moreyouknowcrypto]

This was a very helpful video! Thank you so much. Subscribed 👊

[SantodosAssassinos]

Thank you for this video and the information !!!
Very helpful

[ling]

That sink metaphor works great, thank you

[Aussiecakes]

Thanks super helpful, best video I've found!

[Vanidar]

many thanks for this video! Explained very well...

[jaycarlton]

Awesome video where he explains advanced features in a simple way that anyone should be able to understand. Thanks!!!

[kirillch]

Very good clear explanation. Thanks. Also CapCut works with mkv directly

[JuandeDiosConlaGente]

Thank you so much. For someone just starting to live stream, this was the best video I'd watched so far.

[PrplMunkys]

Curious what you think when people say you should only stream on twitch at 960p as opposed to 1080?

[usefweapons]

dude THANK YOU so much for this. several videos just rattled off settings without any great explanation, even the obs discord snuffed me with a "use simple mode!" or whatever it is. i need the DETAILS ya know? thanks again!

[indigoiozzi]

Hello! I've been using a Ryzen 5 5600G for streaming on Youtube. Whenever I check my VODs I notice that my streams are blurry.
Since I don't have a dedicated GPU (the 5600g has a Vega 7), I use the x264 encoder. However, I've noticed that I have the option "AMD HW H.264 (AVC)" available. Should I use this? Or is it not suited for integrated graphics/Vega 7?

[DMCRacing]

Hey man. I have a AMD ryzen7 laptop and it gives me the option to use integrated graphics. Should I use the CPU or GPU?

[CurrentGenGamesWithNick]

Have a question I'm confused about this I have 985 Mbps upload and download I'm trying to record 4K HDR with a capture card from the PlayStation so I'm confused on what to put in that great record

[leroycoblentz]

Thank you for the video, I'm getting ready to stream to YouTube for the first time. My upload speed is 24.63 mbps, what should my bitrate be set to?

[Tom]

My speed is 500mbps what would you recommend the bitrate. I'm streaming to twitch?