There’s no sense in wasting bandwidth when it won’t be used, so keep this in mind until you hit Partner. Twitch streaming caps non-Partner stream bitrates and will scale anything above that limit down to fit within the max bitrate. If you’re streaming on Twitch and you’re not a Twitch Partner, don’t worry about setting your bitrate any higher than 6500 Kbps. Stream bitrate target guidelines based on desired stream resolution and frame rate As we mentioned before, there’s no one best setting or bitrate, but here are our favorite guidelines for setting your bitrate: Stream resolution Next, within that upload bandwidth, you’ll want to choose your target stream output resolution and frame rate (or frames per second). This will let you know how much upload speed you have to work with and where to start setting your video bitrates. Combined, these are the two main constraints on your desired bitrate.įirst, we’d suggest checking your connection’s download and upload speeds with a test like or Google’s Internet speed test. Your stream’s video settings are going to be affected by two main factors: Your target streaming resolution and frames per second, and your internet upload speed.
Recommended bitrate settings for OBS Video bitrate
There are, of course, more settings in other menus, but these are the core settings you’ll be looking at in most scenarios. Click Video to choose your base (canvas) resolution and your output (scaled) resolution.Click Audio to choose your audio quality settings and devices.You can do this in Simple or Advanced mode with the dropdown at the top Click Output to configure your streaming and recording quality settings.Click Stream to select your streaming platform of choice.