Hello, my YouTube friends.
There's a lot of different platforms to live stream on these days.
So many in fact, I can't really cover them all, but what I can do is
show you how to find the information that you need and where to put
that information into OBS setup, so your streams are gonna be set up
properly and run well.
We've got a lot to cover, so you know what?
Let's get to it.
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The very first step to setting up your live stream properly is going
to be determining how fast your internet connection upload speeds are.
You may wanna stream in 4k, but depending upon how fast your upload
is, it may not be possible.
So you're gonna want to go to your search engine of choice and just
type in internet speed and something like this will come up and you
just click your internet speed test, and it's going to test your
internet speed for you.
Now, this is the download speed.
Doesn't really matter if I'm being honest, because that doesn't affect
anything.
This is what you're interested in.
Your upload speed.
Takes a few moments to run, once it does you get your download speed
and your upload speed, your upload speed is what's going to enable you
to live stream.
So this is the speed that actually matters.
As you can see, minus 25.7,
you just want to make note of your upload speed.
Now that we know how fast our upload speeds are, how do we find out
the ideal settings for the platform that we wanna stream to?
So the next thing we want to do is find out what the optimum settings
are for our streaming platform.
So whether it's YouTube or Twitch or Facebook or any other one, all
you have to do is go to your internet search of choice.
Well, let's go to, uh, YouTube stream settings and you're gonna find
something here, live encoder settings, bit rates and resolutions.
And all you have to do right here is find what you plan to stream at.
In my case, I stream in 10 80, it tells me the resolution and the
video bit rate range for that resolution.
Now, if we scroll down here, it's gonna give us our encoders settings,
and this is gonna be the same for whatever platform you decide to
stream to.
YouTube stream settings.
We can go in here, we could put in Twitch.
So you're gonna be able to easily search for the stream settings that
you wanna stream for whatever platform, they're all gonna be here.
So you're just gonna want to take a picture of whatever it is that you
plan to stream to so that you have your settings.
So in this case, uh, for Twitch, you've got your NVENC settings for
those who have an Nvidia card, and you have your X 2, 6, 4 specs for
those who do not have an NVENC card and the settings are gonna be a
slightly different thing.
So now you know how to find the settings for your platform.
So now we have our ideal settings, let's put these into OBS, so our
streams are gonna go off without a hitch.
All right.
So here we are in OBS.
The first thing we're going to do is go into settings and as you can
see, it's set up stream on Twitch.
So we're gonna go to our output and we're gonna change our output mode
from simple to advanced.
So we can set everything up the way we want it.
You can see it automatically comes up to the X 2 64 encoder.
And if you remember, the X 2 64 is on the right side and the Nvidia
encoder is on the left hand side.
But the first thing we need to do this figure out whether we can
actually stream at this bit rate of 4,500 kilobits per second.
So that's why we did our internet speed test.
So basically a four point a four and a half kilobits per second would
be a 4.5
megabits per second upload.
Now, generally speaking, you want your upload speed to be about double
what your bit rate is going to be.
So in this case, we would want our bit rate to be somewhere around
nine, and we can see it's 26.
So we have plenty of headroom to do a live stream in 10 80 at 30
frames per second.
Plenty, because this number only needs to be nine to be double what
this is.
So we're good to go.
All we have to do is enter in our numbers and I'm gonna show you how
to do both the NVENC encoder and the X 2 64 encoder just in case.
But, uh, we have now done our speed test thing we're done with that.
We know that we can live stream at 10 80 in 30 frames per second.
So we're gonna go over here and we're gonna go ahead and set this up
for 4,500 and there we go.
And CBR is what you want it to be.
Now we've got our key frame interval and shockingly, this is going to
have our key frame interval at two seconds.
So all you have to do is put that in there as these are the optimal
settings.
So frame rate 25 to 30 seconds, which we already have set up.
We know we're set up for 30 frames per second.
I will show you how to check that in a moment.
It wants your preset to be anywhere from very fast to medium and your
profile to be either main or high.
So we are already set to very fast, but you can go anywhere from very
fast to medium and get acceptable quality and our profile to be main
or high.
We're gonna put it on high and nothing else needs to be changed.
We have now the optimal setup to stream to Twitch.
Now, if we go over here to video, this is where your frames per second
is set up.
And this is where your canvas and base resolution are set up.
You wanna make sure that these are set up, so they are exactly the
same.
You want your base canvas and your base resolution exactly the same
and your frames per second, to be set up exactly the same.
So 25 to 30 frames per second, we're at 30 frames per second, 1920 by
10 80.
We're all set up.
We are ready to stream using the X 2 64 encoder on Twitch.
Let's go over here.
We're gonna change this to the Nvidia encoder, and we'll bring up our
settings right here.
You can see it's the same 4,502 second key frame quality and B frames
two.
So we've already got our B frames set to two.
We need to set our key frames to two right here, and then we just need
to set this to a 4,500 and I believe we might be all set up.
So we want the preset to be quality, which it is.
Everything else is good to go.
We already know we're at 25 to 30 frames per second.
We already know we're at 1920 by 10 80.
So now we are set up to stream to the NVENC encoder on Twitch.
All you have to do is click apply and okay, you can set up your
stream.
You are ready to go with the optimal settings.
Now you may find that your internet connection upload is not gonna
support the resolution or frame rate that you want to stream at.
It's okay to scale down.
There is nothing wrong with streaming in 7 20.
The entertainment that you provide will be just as good in 7 20 as it
is in 10 80.
And most people are watching on a phone anyways.
If you wanna see how to build a simple stream in OBS, you should check
this video out.
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Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.