The day for av1 cant come soon enough

I think Twitch not only wants to improve quality for viewers, but also get rid of the "burden" of having to provide an on-the-fly encoder for everyone. We know that this is a high cost for them and perhaps in the past this would have made sense, but today with the technology we have they must feel obliged to link the streamer to the viewer only. In any case, for those of us who play video games and do live streaming, it is a significant improvement. However, we also know that not everyone will have the opportunity to upload more than one video stream to their streams.

Hyped for AV1 but even more hyped for HEVC since a lot more people have that capability in their hardware than AV1. Glad to see some progress!

This is huge. Great explanation. Looking forward to watch in higher quality.

The only person i am waiting to watch updates about OBS

One of the hidden leaders of youtube. Wish you got more publicity from the algorithm... In a perfect world we will have around 12 options for which algorithm concept to use in each media site, and potentially the chance to import our own.

Im only waiting for HEVC codec support...

FINALLYYYYYYY! Cant't wait for HEVC and AV1 support. This will be a gamechanger!

Awasome resumeeee 🥰 I hope every feature come early this year 🥰

Great to hear an update about this, and even better to hear the progress so far

This video explains why the stream was capped to 1080P on my 4090. Bandwidth used was 12Mbps, Bandwidth of my Internet is 2.5Gbps.

Thank you for all of this info and your other videos as well. Keep up the great work.

HYPEE Thanks for keeping us updated. So cool.

finally the days of "What are the best settings" questions where people tweak x264 flags for literally zero visible improvement are over

i was very excited to try out the new multitrack video option today, but had to unfortunately instantly turn off.. for some reason my Bitrate is getting capped at 6k bitrate and doesnt even reach my normal bitrate of 8k. I have tried both the auto function and setting it manualy to 10k bitrate. Both my stream aswell as my vod are capped at 6k bitrate. is there a reason why it will not give me above 8k? (i am streaming overwatch and the game has always looked bad with anything less than 10k, unfortunately twitch has so far only allowed to stream with a max bitrate of 8k, thats why i was excited for this setting..)

As Linux user with an Intel Arc GPU, I'll probably need extra patience for these features.

Thank you for the updates, you are the best!

Really exciting stuff for Twitch. Being able to just go live and not needing to worry about settings is a super wonderful thing.

Thank you thank you for this video, this answered so many questions for me. Seriously, you rock!

Very cool progress update! If I were AMD I would be all over Twitch on this trying to help in any way possible. The possibility of streaming HEVC or AV1 to Twitch even at 1080p would almost entirely level the playing field for AMD as far as streaming goes. RTX and DLSS are still better for Nvidia, but I see so many gamers/streamers on Reddit ditch AMD bc they want to stream to Twitch and AMD is just so much worse at low bitrate H264 than Nvenc.

Didn't realise we were still using technology from 29 years ago.. crazy stuff considering it's been widely mainstream for a while, you would think that bitrate optimisation and reduction would be the absolute priority for a service like twitch and youtube, I wonder what netflix does on their side

I've been using the Enhanced twitch brodcasting for a couple days then recently I started getting errors saying the there was encoding overloads. Any idea what this could be. I have a 6950xt gpu and a ryzen 7 5800x cpu.

Awww hopefully Intel Arc gets on this soon!

I love the experience streaming to Twitch much more than KZfaq, but currently, KZfaq is massively higher quality due to being able to send it 1440p HEVC. If I know I'm only going to be playing one game, I'll stream to KZfaq for the higher quality. If I'm going to be switching games around mid-stream, I use Twitch. It is so much easier to change stream settings on the fly with Twitch, and getting a new stream going is one button press instead of the KZfaq creating a stream, setting it live, then connecting to it process. I also appreciate the lower latency with Twitch. I cannot wait for 1440p HEVC to come to Twitch.

Any possible way that they could reduce the number of ads we need to run is going to be the best way to enhance viewer experience.

This is all really awesome for the future of twitch streaming. what i'm really curious about is are they increasing the bitrate in general for people to use. most people are stuck at 6K with some using 8K. i feel like having a higher bitrate for all users is a big thing to focus on.

Amd user here, still hope that someday will be able to stream descently on twitch, like with av1.

As a Twitch Ambassador, I'm so glad others are getting to join the beta.

Can't wait for hevc myself. Glad to see twitch taking these steps forward on the tech end finally. Now if only yt would get back to improving their live experience instead of focusing on shorts so much...

I hope in the future Twitch also supports HDR streaming such as KZfaq specially on HLG gamma curve which is widely used on live sports broadcasting.

Given how much money it costs to rent AWS streaming bandwidth (yes even if you are subsidized by your parent company Amazon) it only makes sense to push for better and more efficient codecs to reduce costs. And those costs are what Twitch is struggling with the most for quite a while now.

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Very cool and exciting. A lot of cool possibilities in the future. I currently multi-stream using Restream. I couldn't find much info searching online, but is there a way to use Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting with Restream in OBS?

Apparently my 7800 XT is still not supported according to OBS despite being on the latest drivers. Can't wait to try this eventually.

Hi! Thanks for your amazing videos :D I left Twitch for a while and now I have this problem I can't figure out. I stream a 1920x1080 60fps downscaled to 720 at 4000 Kpbs, P5, highg quality, 2 pass, high, Connection 800mps download, 380mps upload, stable connection, nvenc h.264. This was perfect for me. I started streaming again after 3 months now (always a dynamic game), same settings, I changed nothing. Is ALL blurry as hell. I've seen your video "Free Quality UPGRADE & HDR Streaming is BACK", and I moved the downscale options from Video tab to Output tab (bicubic filter), leaving the Video tab at full res 1920x1080, leaving 60fps as only option in the Video tab. Same result: blurry. The strangest thing is that when the game moves, also my image in the webcam spot becomes blurry as hell too (and generally, looks really bad compared to months before). What can I do? Is a problem linked to this new Enhanced Broadcasting feature (which was turned off)? If so, why I can't have the same results as before without turning on this feature? Sorry for the long message and thanks in advance from Italy :D

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Yep all nice and well now all the need is ultrawide support

Any recommendations on how to convert AV1 to be usable in Premiere Pro?

despite AV1 support being kinda early days, i'm still surprised 265 is happening at all considering how expensive it is to use for anything Commercial. also i'm not sure how Latency is supposed to improve, watching non-source as long as Low Latency is enabled already has the measured Latency being like, 1 Second. but i suppose i am in a developed region, and so i wouldn't be familiar if in less developed areas that Twitch is actually a lot 'slower' than that.

Gonna give the test build a shot Thank for the news brother

This Video got me so hyped again

i just updated my obs to obs 30.2 and i have a AMD 6700XT, and i dont have the HEVC in stream option. Any idea why that could be? is my 6700XT not eligible for that format?

I have an RX 7900 XT, but can't seem to stream using the AV1 encoder... is there a reason? Or am I missing something in the build>?

i have RX7900XTX and i dont see that option on my obs? =[ what can i do?

installed and checked the box like you showed, OBS will now not run.. when it first fired up and i tried to do a test stream, it was showing like 27ms to encode. then it locked the entire pc up and will not run in enhanced mode.

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How does this affect gaming performance?

Stupid Question (i just start to Stream, am doing Lets plays on YT right now)... but i guess you can also use the Ryzen integrated IGPU to stream with their HW H265 Encoder? I can use it in Handbrake and or record Klonoa (yes bit old...) with it in H265 at least. But i dont know how good it is at "fast" encoding and towards Twitch and or if they even support it. Why one should do that? Just a random Idea that ppl could play with if they have older or not as strong Cards or they want the GPU to do a simultaneous Render/Export.

Wait 🔥 Intel Arc support (hevc & av1) , and AMD hevc & av1 ) 1440p60 fps

pretty sure that just adding HEVC is all the platform needs. isnt it kinda crazy that they dont have it yet? (semi-srs question)

Great video sir!!

Would like to see some Intel QSV love for the HEVC and AV1 stuff from Twitch

Any chance you can see if there is another way to lower Latency for the keyframes other than Xaymar, he put it all behind a paywall??

Is there a way to use this feature for twitch broadcasting while multi streaming to youtube without putting extra stress on the encoder? or will it count as 2 different quality streams thus encoding it twice?

What does this for transcoding for non-affiliates? Since I'm not an affiliate on Twitch, I can only stream the one output resolution that I set in OBS. Does this change that?

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Damn, this is hype. SInce last year things have realy started to move after infinite stagnation.

12:03 An unexpected cameo! :)

GTX Nvidia generation Pascal work's with h265 codec in Twitch broadcast ??

i signed in with youtube on OBS. I use a multi-stream plugin I wonder how I could use the enhanced broadcasting when I'm in signed in to youtube. I wish obs would let us sign in to both at the same time.

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Great video thanks bro

The ENTIRE point of local transcoding is so that 4k streaming becomes more accessible in that it will cost less for Twitch for to offer it to everyone since they are no longer bearing the brunt of the computational resources required for said transcodes. If 4k is not supported by the enhanced broastcasting pipeline that would be incredibly stupid on the behalf of Twitch. In other words, transcoding and especially high quality transcodes should no longer partner-gated.

Not seeing this checkbox in the stream tab, is there something I'm missing? don't see any updates either. edit: nvm there is a beta option I must have missed.

Nice updates lets gooo!

I don't understand i see 10k bitrate on my obs but still see 6k bitrate on twitch.

What does it mean if you're trying to multicast to twitch and youtube

How well would a 3070 Ti run the enhanced beta with being a single-rig system? Decently powerful games like Monster Hunter, etc.

I hope these changes improve the quality when a lot is happening in a game because that's usually when the streams become pixel soup and are unpleasant to watch.

are they still accepting people into the closed beta? (I just signed up). Would love to play around with AV1 (as I just ordered an RX 7800XT so I can finally do AV1 for local recordings) If not, I'm really looking forward to when the public beta can stream AV1 and/or HEVC

So if I get this right... You said I should be able to use the beta builds of 30.2 to try out the encoding myself...? Is there a more or less direct link to said beta build? Git hub confuses the hell out of me when I try to find a way to actually download anything from it...

Sooo this is now out and i'm a little lost. Am i no longer able to stream at 936p if i have this enabled? My last vod shows 720p max. This seems more like a downgrade if anything as my stream now looks blurry.

I wonder what would happen if you sent all these streams to youtube (eg with a self-hosted RTMP forwarding server)

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I was excited to test this, however I'd prefer support on my Intel GPU if I'm forced to use H264 instead of my RX 6800 XT. Does this work with x264 at all?

twitch doesn't even need to increase the quaility to 1440p or 4k 1080p is more than enough just get the efficiency benefit with slightly higher bitrate

My question is. Can you select different types of stream encoders for the resolutions? for example leaving the intel qsv for 1080 or 1440 and use the nvidia card for the rest or something like that and also for example leave a source 1080p60 and another 108030 and so on

the sad thing is if you use those new settings you cant use 8000 bitrate :/

Im sorry, I can not find the link to download the beta for the life of me. Can someone help me out?

Hmm, but doesn't this create more bandwidth usage on the streamer's network?

I streamed with 936p and the 10000bits with my rtx4090, nvidia driver up to date. Somehow the picture doesn't look any better. If it matters I have affiliate status on Twitch. Best regards

Hi! What nvidia i need to use this, i have a RTX 2070 and the codec but i dont have the encoder HEVC, so my stream is in 1080p

What about mac users ? which apple chips can support this ?

But why HEVC? When there is av1... 10 years late.

I`m Intel GPU user. Cam i use this beta?

All these changes are cool but it would be great if twitch would fix the issue of their player just randomly freezing and having audio go out of sync when watching streams. Been happening for months on every platform they have apps and websites on.

Why use HEVC when we have VP9 and AV1?

I would like to see it in an MMORPG, lots o grass, ablities, forest etc

I don't see Twitch allow streaming at higher then 1080p 60fps, and here's why: Twitch is still not a profitable company and is exploring various ways to reduce costs and increase revenue. The high-resolution tests, I believe, are stress tests to see how the network copes with increased usage under the new codec. Dan Clancy previously mentioned their interest in AV1 because it allows streaming of the same quality at a lower bandwidth, which means reduced costs. In a live stream, Clancy suggested this could cut Twitch's streaming expenses by 30%. There's no logical reason to incur higher costs when your company is losing money, unless those costs will generate more revenue. However, I'm doubtful that people are willing to pay extra to watch streams in resolutions like 1440p or 4k.

Sounds interesting.

what about Adreno GPUs that support AV1 encoding?

So you can't save the 4k streams as VODs? aww would've wanted to check out that quality. I'll wait for the next stream

I have a Intel Arc GPU in my stream PC, hopefully they will include Intel eventually.

Required upload for a 8k upload with downscaled encodes?

AV1 or bust

assuming mac streamers are left out on this?

Great video! Quick question - as someone that streams x264 Slow @ 8300 bitrate - do you think the open beta would increase quality for me (5950x /1660ti stream pc)? I thought there was still a cap of around 10k bitrate, split between the possible 5 encodes. In my head it seems like it would reduce quality at the high end, but those trying to watch at 360p etc. might have a slightly better experience. Appreciate your insight!

Why are the new codecs always being posed as an if and not a when?

So the beta OBS is an open test? Does that mean I can go live with the beta to my viewers?

any news on when it arrives for twitch, I do have the beta and have selected enhanced broadcasting but I'm still being capped at 6 k if I use it... Thank you in advanced