What u mean by ”insane” bitrate, highest i tried was 25k, highest i could try is about 50k but that eats all my upload speed then
I just recorded a 20-second Lossless test video at 1920x1080p60. For just those 20 seconds, I got a 1.2 GiB file. (1,305,005,106 bytes) Dividing that out, with 8 bits per byte, gives 522,002,042.4 bits per second, or 522M. (522,002k)
So you have to compress it. And that compression must throw away detail. For comparison, I recorded another 20-second test with the Indistinguishable setting. That gave me 39.9 MiB. (41,862,221 bytes) Dividing that out, with 8 bits per byte, gives 16,744,888.4 bits per second, or 17M. (16,745k)
Of course, both of those are far higher than your connection can support, so you have to use far fewer bits, which means that not everything that you can see can be described accurately. In other words, *something* WILL be blurry. It's only a question of "What?" and "Will you notice?"
how are so many streamers on twitch at 8k but still looking better than my streams?
Are you criticizing yourself more than you criticize them? That's easy to do. I think you look okay.
There are tricks and command-line options that get into the highly technical weeds in a really big hurry, to tell the encoder just what to preserve and what to throw away, but very few people actually get into that. Maybe your favorites do?
And I believe that Twitch also has an affiliate program, that effectively amounts to "paying Twitch to make you better" or something like that. Don't know the details, as I'm not on Twitch at all, but that *is* the impression that I get from the outside. So if you're not an affiliate, it could be that you actually *are* sending them something good and they kill it.
But again, the link that you gave here, looks just fine to me. Nothing unexpected, anyway.
