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[Milocinia]

I know my recordings are ok and my final encode looked great (mainconcept mp4, 1080p 30fps progressive, 50mbps bitrate yada yada) yet no matter what I do, my YouTube videos look sausage in 1080p.



Now I know YouTube messes about with things a lot and you'll never get it looking perfect but a lot of 1080p videos I view (especially MWO) look a lot less grainy and much sharper overall.

I've tried a lower bitrate mp4 to see if it'll help, WMVHD and various avi codecs but nothing I seem to do will improve the video quality to that I see from other people.

I notice my videos also look a little darker. Would turning the in-game gamma up slightly work by increasing the contrast? Would turning up the post processing settings improve things?

FYI I play with DX11, everything on very high apart from shadows (high), postAA on and record fine at 30fps using Fraps.

Thanks for any tips you might have.

p.s. The actual content of my videos is rubbish so you don't have to comment on that

Edited by Kyocera, 10 October 2014 - 11:59 AM.

[Koniving]

Youtube prefers streamable formats. It will re-encode your videos if it is not in an MP4 format. Also your quality is obscenely high. Consider using Handbrake (http://sourceforge.n...ects/handbrake/) to convert it first. Encode at a very high 26 for the constant quality and slowest encode (for the best quality).

My own vids don't get that level of quality because I absolutely can't stand waiting that long with my computer slowed to a crawl. (Lordred's videos do run it though)

Edited by Koniving, 10 October 2014 - 12:12 PM.

[Milocinia]

Yeah 50mbps is very excessive but after a trial run at around 8mbps which I wasn't happy with after YouTube had done its stuff, I tried 50mbps which came out exactly the same once they'd worked their "magic".

This leads me to believe it's perhaps not the video encode itself but maybe my recorded content. I have noticed all videos I've ever done across different games seem darker than other people's and that might cause more blocking and artifacts.

I still have some experimenting to do evidently! Thanks for that software link, I'll give that a whirl.

[Spike Brave]

I'd try using Open Broadcaster. It's free too. I tried FRAPS but it the final video quality wasn't as good. Here's a link if you want to try it. https://obsproject.com/