How To FIX Your Laggy Twitch Stream (Best Encoder, Bitrate Settings, And More)

If you're struggling to fix your laggy stream, then the first step is to understand what type of lag or stuttering is happening to your stream!

This video talks about how to figure out what is causing your laggy stream, and also how to fix dropped frames, lagged frames, and skipped frames! While also understanding what the best bitrate settings and best encoder settings are for your stream.

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What Bitrate Should I Use For Streaming?

The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.

Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up

By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.

If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.

🕘Timestamps:
0:00 How To Fix Laggy Streams And BEST Settings To Stream In 2024
0:47 Sponsor Segment
1:30 How To Fix Laggy Streams
2:00 What Are Dropped, Skipped, And Lagged Frames?
2:24 How To Fix Dropped Frames In OBS or Streamlabs
2:47 How To Fix Lagged Frames In OBS or Streamlabs
3:11 How To Fix Skipped Frames In OBS or Streamlabs
4:04 Best Resolution And Framerate To Stream At In 2024
5:20 Should you use Simple Or Advanced Output Settings In OBS?
5:35 What Bitrate Should I Use For Streaming In 2024
5:55 What Is Twitch's Bitrate Cap?
6:08 How To Test Your Upload Speed?
6:19 Best Bitrate For Streaming To YouTube
6:53 What Video Encoder To Use for Streaming In 2024?
7:10 When To Use Nvidia Nvenc Encoder For Streaming
7:27 When To Use x264 Encoder For Streaming
7:33 When To Use AV1 Encoder For Streaming
7:51 What Encoder Preset To Use For Streaming
8:10 What Advanced Settings In OBS Matter For Streaming?
8:20 What Rate Control Setting To Use For Streaming?
8:28 Should You Use The Twitch VoD Track?
8:45 How To Run A Test Stream To Twitch
9:18 How To Run A Test Stream To YouTube
9:35 How To Test Which Twitch Server Is Best For You
10:35 How to select specific Twitch servers
10:58 How to turn off Dynamic Bitrate In OBS and Streamlabs

What Is The BEST Encoder For Streamer?

The best encoder for streaming depends heavily on your computer's hardware, the two main options are x264 and Nvidia NVENC.

The major difference here is x264 uses your CPU and it can be very taxing, but Nvidia NVENC uses a special chip on your Graphics card, it is a different part of your graphics card and has nothing to do with your game performance so it won’t hurt your gameplay and vice versa, but not every graphics card is NVENC capable. Elgato has a great list and tool to help find if yours is capable

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[StreamScheme]

Hope everyone is having a lovely month! Sorry for the gap in uploads, becoming a Dad has meant making sure I focus on family a lot more! Trying to learn balance, and we will get there!

[AdaptableFox]

I just wanted to say thank you for your content Eljay. I have been subscribed for a couple years, but never really applied the lessons. At the beginning of this year I decided to apply myself. I have begun making youtube shorts and long form and it really helped to make my streams have purpose when I go live even if there are no viewers. I also added follower goals on screen using your guide and I have had followers each time I've gone live when I had none for a couple months even if i had a few people watching at a time. 🍻

[IntrospectiveScholar]

Love your streaming educational videos! You explain this stuff thoroughly yet simple enough for a newcomer to understand what things are and why they do what they do! I plan on getting into CC in the future and your videos are my go-to for learning about all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into producing smoother results. Thank you for doing what you do and hope more people visit your page!

[ewee]

Great video! That was more info than I was expecting 😁 super helpful!

[Adr_Voids]

Very nice video, especially the server thingy, the dynamic bitrate and the test stream, i did not know about these
Thank you for making these videos it helps a lot

[hummisman]

This video helped so much. I appreciate it a lot since I have a low end PC that absolutely REQUIRES these settings to be changed if I want to stream, espeically on my Youtube chanel, so thank you SO MUCH.

[GoodThumbsss]

This guy is the goat, i hate when people show what settings to use but dont explain exactly what they do or why thats their preference. becuz it makes it so i cant make an educated decision myself.

[JD_DevilnoobF]

4:05 this is probably the main reason I will ALWAYS pick your videos over anyone else 💙

[AmishZed]

This video explaining what all this crap means is so key. Being able to fix things yourself on the fly if you're having issues while live is ESSENTIAL. Thanks so much!

[imaginaryjuli]

I know you posted this 4 months ago, but I want to thank you! I didn't know you can test your stream without actually going live, it's a life saver, thanks to these settings and finding what's right for my streams, it looks pretty good, even my camera isn't lagging, which is great because while it's in obs and on twitch, you can see that my voice is faster than my camera, idk why, maybe that's a different issue, but it seems to be better! So thank you, I appreciate this so much <3

[tangopapadelta]

Thank you! Finally a comprehensive, yet concise, explanation and solution to my streaming quality issues! You have no idea how hard this was to find.

[Dudero]

Awesome video bro, you break it down so well... I actually understood everything you had discussed by the end of each topic. this was a game changer. Sub'n for sure

[AuroraButterflyx]

Some helpful tips. Planning to get back into streaming once I get fibre internet. Fairly excited ❤

[jesusofbullets]

Holy hell, you've saved my streams. Take my like!

[RyalBunny]

Hi Eljay! Big fan! Watching your stuff has helped me in the way i think about streaming and hope to start my youtube journey soon!

[RitchL]

You Are The Hero I Just Found I Needed

[XiTrOnE_SBT]

Hey thanks for the video.
My biggest issue was, that i used a bunch of overlays like animated camera frames that i run directly on my pc, surprisingly all the overlays were the biggest issue, Whenever i turned all overlays off my CPU usage went from 30% down to like only 3% which fixed all my issues.

[dcorn]

4:26, this blew my mind, I thought the base canvase was whatever my monitor was for my game, I have been using 1440p this entire time.. gonna change this for tomorrows stream hope this removes the pixelation that occurs randomly.

Thank you so much!

[ATLgamingZ]

I’m a new streamer, I went out and spent a boat load on my set up, I have Omen 16 64gb I9 12900hx 4tb ssd and I was still getting blurry streams. This video helped a ton

[AdaptableFox]

I was going to do research on this today cause my Camo app running iPad camera keeps falling behind. GG!