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I read many times, that you can get better video results for your videos if you upscale them by small amounts (e.g. uspacle 1080p to sth like 1152p).
This is 1 year old and I need to verify if it's still true.
But IF it is, you would get better bitrates for the same video quality.

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56 minutes ago, McPhisto2051 said:

Doesn't seem to work anymore, all videos get the avc codec which sucks like hell...
Atm the only way as a small youtuber to get the vp9 (the much better quality)-codec is to upload a video in 1440p with 60 fps.
I'll keep that in mind for the next mission Ill play.

Did you try uploading it as vp9?
Maybe they don't reencode if it already is in the final format.

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As far as I know (and googled) you can't choose any encoder. YouTube uses avc automatically for your videos.
You get the better vp9 encoder if you upload high quality videos (as I mentioned before) or if you have many seen videos. I played and tested with different video formats and upscaled the resolution to 1152p and it all ended with getting the avc-codec. (Found several old video tutorials which don't work anymore)

So for today (22-02-04) you should upload your video in 1440p 60 fps and you will get the vp9-codec. This may not look as good as the recorded video, but way better than a video with the avc-codec.
If your high resolution gets vp9 all other resolutions will get vp9 as well (will take some minutes or even hours).
My example video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6vIaatmfhk

I just wanna help everyone to share their fan-mission recordings on YouTube.

To compare this codecs, I made a screenshot of the same video with avc and vp9 codes, both videos played at 1080p and on the exact same time paused.


Here is the vp9-codec:
1.thumb.jpg.04f797bd89d48b3d14a1633df6ee0929.jpg

and here is avc-codec:2.thumb.jpg.93dbe3ece748e0b858f3cf81bf00a440.jpg

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fixed some typos and added comparison-screenshots
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for my YT I actually do it. And I hope thats the best way...
(RL-Mail FF, Gaming Mail Chrome ^^)

This post was moved but I hope at least the conclusion could make it to the official threads again?
Its a pain in the a.. to see the bad codec videos, especially in TDM-Missions...

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  • McPhisto2051 changed the title to Getting the best video quality in YouTube for your TDM-games

My understanding is that in order to unlock the VP9 encoder on your youtube account, you only need to upload 1 1440p 60fps video. Then after that all your videos would get the same treatment. At least, that was the case before, not sure if it still is.

I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather.

 

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If you are a premium/mass viewer youtuber all your videos get vp9. Else each video has to be 1440p, no matter which fps (just tested from 30 to 60). Then this video will get the vp9.
But as a smaller one you need now 1440p! (Having smaller sizes like 1398p which is 97% of 1440p isn't enough!)

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All my Space videos on my channel have all been upscaled in editor to 1440p even though they were recorded at 1080p. It's not to improve the resolution, cause of course you can't do that. However it does improve the bit depth once YT Process's the video and it gives it better clarity. 

I have an eclectic YouTube channel making videos on a variety of games. Come and have look here:

https://www.youtube.com/c/NeonsStyleHD

 

Dark Mod Missions: Briarwood Manor - available here or in game

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18980-fan-mission-briarwood-manor-by-neonsstyle-first-mission-6082017-update-16/

 

 

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I just tested this myself and recording H264 at 50,000kbps at 1080p and uploading that youtube, looks way worse than upscaling 1080p to 1440p and uploading that to youtube.

The VP9 codec does a much better job of dark areas than their standard re-encoding.

I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather.

 

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On 2/15/2022 at 3:21 PM, AluminumHaste said:

I just tested this myself and recording H264 at 50,000kbps at 1080p and uploading that youtube, looks way worse than upscaling 1080p to 1440p and uploading that to youtube.

The VP9 codec does a much better job of dark areas than their standard re-encoding.

Thats why I made this post 😉. I actually invested many hours in testing, converting and uploading and gave you the quick guide 😁

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