OBS Studio Best Settings
OBS Studio Best Settings For Streamers on Twitch or YouTube – Output, Streaming & Recording), Audio & Video and Advanced Options
We show you how to set up OBS Studio. You can always refine this configuration over time, but it is a good starting point for anyone looking to get started with OBS Studio.
OBS Studio Best Settings – Output
These settings produce the highest quality output:
Output streaming
These settings are the best for streaming:
- Advanced output mode
- Audio Track: 1
- Encoder: x264
- Rescale Output: Unmarked
- CBR rate control
- Bitrate: 6000kbps
- Unmarked: Use custom Buffer Side
- Keyframe interval: 0
- CPU Usage: ultrafast
- Profil: Main
- Tune Main
- x264 options: None
Output Recording
These settings produce the best recording results:
- Advanced output mode
- Type: Standard
- Recording Path: You choose ( Default route).
- Unmarked: Generate a file name
- Format for recording: MP4
- Audio Track: 1
- You can choose to encoder
- Rescale Output: Unmarked
- Curtom Muxer settings: None
- Rate control CBR
- Bitrate: 15000kbps
- Keyframe interval: 0
- Preset: Max quality
- High Profile
- Take a look ahead: Unmarked
- Psycho visual: Marked
- GPU: 0
- Max B frames: 2
OBS Studio Best Settings – Audio
These are the top audio settings.
- Sample rate 48 kHz
- Stereo Channels
- Desktop audio: Headphone
- Desktop audio 2: Disabled
- Mic Auxiliary audio : Microphone
- Rest of the Mic Auxiliary audio Disabled
- Decay Rate: Rapid
- Peat meter type: Sample peak
- Monitoring device: Default
- Marked: Disable windows
- Hotkeys (all),: unmarked and zero ms
OBS Studio Best Settings – Video
These are the top video settings.
- Base resolution: 1920×1080
- Output Resolution: 1920×1080
- Lanczos is a downscale filter (sharpened scale, 36 samples).
- Common FPS values: 60
OBS Studio Best Settings – Advanced
These settings are the most advanced:
- Normal process priority
- Mark active outputs by sowing
- Renderer: Your choice
- Format for color: NV12
- Color space: 709 & Color Range: Partial
- Filename formatting: Your choice
- Overwrite: unmarked
- Unmarked automatically
- Replay buffer (without suffix)
- Stream Delay
- Enable: Marked
- Duration: 25s
- Preserve Cutoff: Marked
- Automatically reconnect: Enable (marked).
- Retry delay 10s
- Maximum retries: 20
- Network: Binding to IP > Default and the 3 unmarked options
- Sources: Enable browser sourceware acceleration (marked
- Hotkeys: Never disable hotkeys
We hope you find this configuration useful. If you have any questions, please leave a comment.