>>20106441nta but I've been meaning to test youtube live bitrates again but have been lazy. Really should do that tonight when I play some more DaS. Last time I was testing youtube streams, I streamed at 1440p using 25000kbps bitrate, and I recall the youtube stream ending up much lower, with peaks only being around either 12000kbps or 15000kbps. Can't remember which was which, one of those was for the processed VOD as I wanted to compare them. Youtube does variable bitrate, so the ones in your list are average bitrates, yes.
As for AMD hardware encoding, it's shit. I did a few tests just spinning the camera in Ratchet & Clank sometime last year and it was by far the worst. Nvidia is pretty good, by far the best for live streaming given it takes all the load off the CPU while keeping between 'veryfast' and 'medium' h264 cpu encoding preset quality. The quality between it and a finely tuned software encode for non-live encoding has shortened drastically over the years to the point where, if you are going to be uploading the video to a service instead of distributing it as a file, it's perfectly fine and much faster.
Back to AMD encoding being shit, the attached clip (excuse the otherwise off topic chuuba) was from a random transcode test I did using cpu, nvenc, and amd amf, and is the most easily observed issue amd amf caused where the other two were near identical. Converted to webm with no real difference from the mp4.
Checking the VOD, it honestly looks like it might be the game itself, since Korone looks fine otherwise. At least at a glance.
