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Our guidelines are set up in a way to find the right balance between visual quality and playback quality, where both the broadcaster and the viewer can benefit from. Read the info below to help you choose the Encoding, Bitrate, Resolution, and Framerate settings that provide the right balance for the game you’re playing, your internet speed, and your computer’s hardware. Remember: it’s always better to have a stable stream than to push for a higher video quality that might cause you to drop frames or test the limits of your internet connection.
YouTube recommended upload encoding settings
Below are recommended upload encoding settings for your videos on YouTube.
Container: MP4
- No Edit Lists (or the video might not get processed correctly)
- moov atom at the front of the file (Fast Start)
Audio Codec AAC-LC or Opus or Eclipsa Audio
- Channels: Stereo or Stereo + 5.1 or Stereo + Eclipsa Audio
- Sample rate: 48kHz
Video Codec: H.264
- Progressive scan (no interlacing)
- High Profile
- 2 consecutive B frames
- Closed GOP. GOP of half the frame rate.
- CABAC
- Variable bitrate. No bitrate limit is required, though we offer recommended bit rates below for reference
- Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0
Frame Rate:
Content should be encoded and uploaded in the same frame rate it was recorded.
Common frame rates include: 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60 frames per second (other frame rates are also acceptable).
Interlaced content should be deinterlaced before uploading. For example, 1080i60 content should be deinterlaced to 1080p30. 60 interlaced fields per second should be deinterlaced to 30 progressive frames per second.
Bitrate:
The bitrates below are recommendations for uploads. Audio playback bitrate is not related to video resolution.
Recommended video bitrates for SDR uploads
To view new 4K uploads in 4K, use a browser or device that supports VP9.
Recommended video bitrates for HDR uploads
Recommended audio bitrates for uploads
Our guidelines are set up in a way to find the right balance between visual quality and playback quality, where both the broadcaster and the viewer can benefit from. Read the info below to help you choose the Encoding, Bitrate, Resolution, and Framerate settings that provide the right balance for the game you’re playing, your internet speed, and your computer’s hardware. Remember: it’s always better to have a stable stream than to push for a higher video quality that might cause you to drop frames or test the limits of your internet connection.
YouTube recommended upload encoding settings
Below are recommended upload encoding settings for your videos on YouTube.
Container: MP4
- No Edit Lists (or the video might not get processed correctly)
- moov atom at the front of the file (Fast Start)
Audio Codec AAC-LC or Opus or Eclipsa Audio
- Channels: Stereo or Stereo + 5.1 or Stereo + Eclipsa Audio
- Sample rate: 48kHz
Video Codec: H.264
- Progressive scan (no interlacing)
- High Profile
- 2 consecutive B frames
- Closed GOP. GOP of half the frame rate.
- CABAC
- Variable bitrate. No bitrate limit is required, though we offer recommended bit rates below for reference
- Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0
Frame Rate:
Content should be encoded and uploaded in the same frame rate it was recorded.
Common frame rates include: 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60 frames per second (other frame rates are also acceptable).
Interlaced content should be deinterlaced before uploading. For example, 1080i60 content should be deinterlaced to 1080p30. 60 interlaced fields per second should be deinterlaced to 30 progressive frames per second.
Bitrate:
The bitrates below are recommendations for uploads. Audio playback bitrate is not related to video resolution.
Recommended video bitrates for SDR uploads
To view new 4K uploads in 4K, use a browser or device that supports VP9.
Recommended video bitrates for HDR uploads
Recommended audio bitrates for uploads
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