Streaming speed depends on your internet connection and device capabilities.
Streaming speed depends on your internet connection and device capabilities.
I understand, the 3MBPS upload speed should work for PS4, but performance can vary. For streaming online games, you might need higher quality settings. To check your actual speeds on your PS4, refer to the build-in test results—though they may not reflect real-world conditions.
We charge for a 100 Mbps download speed, but I’m not sure about the upload rate. What’s your experience with 1080p streaming or uploading?
Performed a speed test to check your upload speed. 1080p typically requires about 6MB for the upload. Be aware that encoding a 1080p stream demands significantly more power compared to 720p.
It should work at 6Mbps for 720p, but 1080p would need more bandwidth. A 10Mbps connection would handle 1080p without issues.
I don’t understand encoding since I use a PS4 for streaming. I can only adjust settings like quality and a few options, not bitrate or encoding. It’s unclear how accurate the actual bitrate is on my console.
There's megabits (mbps) and megabytes (MB) .... there's 8 megabits in 1 MB Your internet plan and your internet speeds are in megabits ... you get 100 mbps download (that's around 12.5 MB/s) The maximum streaming speed will be your upload speed, minus around 0.5 - 1 mbps. If your ISP limits your upload speed to 3 mbps, you CAN NOT configure your broadcast software to stream at 3 mbps, because the video stream is not the only thing using the internet at that time, so some "room" must be left for other things. At best, you'd probably be able to go with 2.7 mbps ... 0.3 mbps must be left as reserve, for other things. There's no set bitrate value for a certain resolution, it really depends on the quality you want to achieve with your stream and the type of game you're streaming. In general, it is said that 3 mbps is enough for 720p, in the sense that you get a reasonable amount of quality in that amount of data. For 1080p, most people say 6 mbps because that's the maximum value Twitch allows "regular" people to upload at, while Youtube allows even 10mbps or more. For a majority of games, 6 mbps can be enough for 1080p, but for others it can be too little. You can use hardware encoding to stream a game, or you can use your processor (software encoding) to encode the video and upload it. PS4 will use hardware encoding, it uses a tiny dedicated portion of the video card to compress the video. The same can be done with PCs, using nvEnc or AMF to use the video ard to compress video. These hardware encoding options can compress video fast and with minimal processor usage, but because they're fixed in hardware they have minimal configuration options and in general the quality is a bit worse compared to software encoding. For example, at a fixed bitrate like 3 mbps, you could say the image quality of hardware encoding could be only 90% of the image quality of software encoding. If you have a powerful processor, you can use software encoding to compress the video and then you have a lot of options... you can trade image quality to compress faster and with less processor usage, or you can increase the processing power in order to squeeze more image quality in an amount of data. So for example, you could get the same image quality if you use 2.5 mbps and 50% of your processor power OR 3 mbps and only 35% of your processor power ... same broadcast quality but you're trading more upload data for less processor used. Your PS4 will have some options in some menus somewhere, where you can configure how much bandwidth to use (that mbps value) If it doesn't let you, then experiment ... stream to twitch at various quality levels and watch your own stream using a PC , click on the GEAR icon in the corner, select the (source) at video quality and then from Advanced, enable "video stats" and you'll get something like this: ninja is big deal streamer on twitch so he's allowed to use more than 6 mbps .. so you can see he streams 1080p 60fps at 7.5 mbps (~ 7530 kbps when I took the picture)
my upload speed fluctuates a lot depending on how I check it. sometimes it’s 3, other times 10. the average seems to be around 5 or 6, though the highest I’ve seen was about 400 uploads—just a few minutes later it returned to normal. The PS4 test doesn’t give an accurate picture; it usually shows 30-40 downloads, but my computer or the provider’s tablet reports 70-100, which matches what we pay for. They usually say “megabyte” instead of “megabit,” and I’m not sure if they always get this wrong. I know my ping stays between 1 and 30 when gaming, and I can stream offline at 1080p without lag, but that doesn’t always work. I’ve tried streaming online games while hardlined, but sometimes there’s a bit of lag. That usually disappears once I switch games—like from Paladins to R6s.