Struggling with YT Quality... Help/Suggestions?

[emericaridr11]

I cant for the life of me figure out why some of you guys get such clean 360p quality on YouTube.... maybe my Cap Card is a bit outdated?
what cards you all gots?

help me out, do any of these look better than the next one?

FCP Mov Convert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZzrEsN3_8
FCP Mp4 Convert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fStq_4is1lo
Compressor Mp4 Convert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CST3TVqallc
Adobe Encoder Flv Convert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuIoZ-zvLnc
iskysoft Wmv Convert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKtl344qe3g


thanks for taking the time to help a brother out

[DaaGooN]

I don't see much difference in quality, but of course it comes down to rendering it out in h.264 or in lossless avi (Huge File)
bit rate and the such
Remember though how bad youtube will crush all quality, i myself use WMV over H.264 it has a better black depth, just a little bit bigger in file size.

That wmv don't look right? got a pixel dust look to it.
for me FCP Mp4 Convert looks the best.

I am still rocking my PVR from OG skate days.
5 years ago i did a test.. ;/

Wmv upscale 10mbs 320kbps ac3 ect..

[emericaridr11]

thought the flv looked ok too..... and dont get me wrong Im no idiot (and you should know that), I know what Youtube does with re encoding
and with my shiternet I just cant upload Lossy Codecs, otherwise I would probably use ProRes Proxy or something similar


it very well could just be the way my mac handles Flash and Html5, it could be that my YT shows more Marco Blocks and Artifacts due to me being on a mac..... could be that all you PC heads are seeing the right quality
Because...

On Chrome I used to have this Extension that would force YT to use Googles Built In HTML5 Player (no not the youtube html5 one), and it will also allow me to force the codec to be WebM instead of Mp4..... and the quality was night and day (which no longer works on chrome now).... Im just fishing for any hope dammit, haha I know Im picky too



I will take a screen shot of the Video and upload here for you to see what I mean (and maybe you can let me know if you see those artifacts as well)
THANKS FOR THE RESPONSE BROTHA



EDIT - yeah your quality looks damn similar to mine, could it just be the older pvr's algorithms are a bit outdated now and I expect more?

[emericaridr11]

I guess I half way figured it out, but not happy with it still..... anyways Daag (or whoever) take a look at these Snaps
Chrome is just HORRID compaired to firefox, but firefox is horrid if I dont use this specific Add-On (so I guess I consider myself lucky to have it, but damn that Chrome one was so much better)

Peep it, and let me know if your Comp/Broswers like mine.... seems to be more a Mac Problem I assume
you can really see it in his arms and the Ls Show

holla homeslices

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[Bonksz]

What capture card are you using? I use an elgato and i never had this problem before and im on mac as well.

[emericaridr11]

What capture card are you using? I use an elgato and i never had this problem before and im on mac as well.

thanks for the response Bonksz, I have a old PVR 1212 (the first one) and Muhzzy sent me a few Elgato files before and I noticed the Gamma and Saturation was messed with, wonder if thats a elgato thing... but

I just rewatched one of my s2 videos with this Firefox Extension, and the 360p quality is actually watchable as fuck
so I guess all I needed to do was switch from Chrome to Firefox.... and I will miss Chrome

but thanks yall, Im still up for all kinds of suggestions though, I know there is alot of Encoders that have specific options that others dont have
like.....

Handbrake has the ability to use H.264 with x264 (or even H.265 with x264) which is what I believe Youtube uses as well (I think)
BUT handbrake takes my 1280x720 clip and makes it a funky size... I think this is due to the older PVR having black bars on top and right of the clip, so Handbrake sees black and says no content your output size is now 1276x718

haha so Im all up for suggestions still