[FFmpeg-user] How to add 4 streams to one YouTube channel???

Moritz Barsnick barsnick at gmx.net
Tue Oct 16 14:27:58 EEST 2018


On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 23:04:39 -0500, Rad J wrote:
> However I'm having some issues with the stream quality and frame loss...
> also YouTube is complaining about my stream type...

You sometimes need to fiddle against YouTube's expectation. I remember
that YouTube didn't see my live stream actually starting, without
giving me detailed errors like yours. When I improved some parameters
(such as GOP size), it suddenly worked.

> This is what I'm getting:
> 
> *Bad video settings*
> *The video is encoded with an unsupported codec. Please set the video codec
> for the stream to a supported codec (H.264).*
> 
> *10:54 PM Bad Bad video settings*
> *The video is encoded with an unsupported codec. Please set the video codec
> for the stream to a supported codec (H.264).*
> *Please check the video resolution. The current resolution is (3840x1080),
> which is not optimal.*
> *The stream's current bitrate (992.00 Kbps) is lower than the recommended
> bitrate. We recommend that you use a stream bitrate of 4500 Kbps.*
> 
> Do you know how to fix this? How to increase the bitrate?

Sure we know. But please show your currently used command line(s) which
provoke(s) these warnings. We can try to fine-tune or reproduce.

Cheers,
Moritz


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