>>61116417>I watch multiplatform streamers and Youtube is always noticeably muddier every time.A multi-platform stream is limited by what they can feed to Twitch, unless they actually do two separate encodes with separate bitrates which is extremely unlikely. This means that yes, it will come out worse on youtube, because you're already feeding it garbage, and it turns it into worse garbage. If they're partners and using the 8000kbps bitrate allowance then yes, it will always look better on Twitch, because even Youtube's special hardware cannot beat 8000kbps with 4500kbps.
>Also I don't think Youtube's encoding settings have changed since like 2013They have absolutely have, though it's not easy to go do comparisons because the way they do things is they will re-transcode videos after significant changes. That includes major changes to hardware/encode settings, and adding additional formats. I am fairly certain they keep the original file uploaded for this purpose too.
>And they do actually still transcode streams that you upload below their different bitrate thresholdsYeah, their model is transcode always. It sucks they don't have a passthrough quality while live like Twitch, but whatever.
>>61116594I had heard this plenty, so I bit the bullet during the ARK streamer server craze and did some comparisons. I compared Aki and Ex Albio's Youtube streams to a few on Twitch such as Hinano, Mother3, and one or two others.
8000kbps streams from the partners were always above the others, no contest. For 6000kbps streams, at first I thought they did look clearer. But then when everything was in motion, there was no noticable difference. I also later found even when there was no real motion there was little to no difference, and my initial checks were just bad timing. Aki was standing somewhere with a more complex environment at the time than Hinano was when I was comparing.
I also eventually noticed Aki's game was at a different scale from most others, which is when I switched to Ex Albio as the main Youtube stream for comparison, and that changed things as well.
All in all, when fed proper input, Youtube does come out seemingly even with Twitch at 1080p60, for non-partner streams. So yes, it tends to be a streamer issue.
I've been meaning to do a dual-stream for pure comparison purposes for a couple of years, but I really just do not like using Twitch. Surely I'll bite the bullet one of these days. Preferrably I'll do a straight 6000kbps stream that I pass to both platforms, then a case of encoding for each platform separately at the same resolution, and then finally doing my usual 1440p to youtube with a transcode for Twitch to see how that all compares.
Eventually, maybe. Might use Heaven Benchmark or whatever just for a scene consistency.
