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Hmmm OK Ill take a look, Im on virgin media's top package so not sure why its buffering :(

Just dropped the bit rate to 3000 from 3300 and it seems to be a bit more stable... at least it does for me anyway
 
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hmmm, Strange as it was working buttery smooth for me on my second monitor. I have downed the bit rate again and jumped across to HoTs so lets see what its like there
 
The problem with streaming at 3k bitrate is you are cutting your chances of having viewers who can actually watch, especially mobile viewers or people with slower net.
Try 2500, it can mean a slight loss of quality (though not too much as 2500 is still fine) but you have to have a decent balance.
 
The FPS you stream at shouldn't affect the stream people watch tbh, if anything when people are getting buffering then it's usually a Twitch ingest server issue. Streaming at 60fps will more than likely cause the streamer to have performance issues but if it's buttery smooth then it's ok.

Couple of tips for new streamers regarding bitrates/FPS etc

30 FPS is more than acceptable for streaming. Higher will require a beefier PC.
60 FPS is good for local recording for uploading to YouTube later, but again 30 FPS is fine too.
Streaming is more about the Streamers UPLOAD speed & the viewers download speed.
If you stream at 10,000kb/s then your stream will look amazeballs, but not everyone will be able to watch it as they may only have 8mb/s download themselves. Plus the higher
bitrate, the more beefier the PC will need to be to transcode the stream.

2,500 - 3,000 kb/s is a good figure for most streams @ 30 FPS.

Slower paced games will look better in most cases as there's less camera movement/fast action.

First Person Shooters with lots of camera moverment/fast action will look blocky/pixelated at times. Consider dropping your stream to 720p for fast paced games to keep the image quality up.

I stream games such as Elite: Dangerous at 1080p @ 30 FPS - 3,000 kb/s bitrate
For something quicker BF: Hardline I use 720p @ 30 FPS - 3,000 kb/s bitrate.

Local recording I tend to use NVENC encoder via Shadow Play with very high settings to keep the image quality up, plus YouTube tends to destroy a lot of image quality when you upload it anyway, so don't expect crystal clarity on YT.
 
I dropped my stream to 2000kb/s and people were still getting buffering so I am not 100% sure what was going on

I will try it again later and see what we get
 
Excellent, I'll check it out in a mo. Thanks for the follow as well Woogie.

I like that fact that you can backup your streams to your HDD. I watched mine back from last night. Its quite apparent that I need to turn my mic down a bit :D:D
 
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