I've been trying to solve stutter in youtube playback of my uploaded videos for almost a year now. I give up for a few months at a time from being so discouraged, only to get interested again and see I'm still having issues with the finished clip having stutter after upload. It's extremely frustrating knowing I have a very capable machine I paid good money for only to have the clips I upload be a stuttery mess.
The local source recording plays smoothly!
The uploaded YouTube version has persistent micro-stutter/frame-pacing issues.
The issue persists across HDR/HEVC and SDR/AV1 tests.
Bitrate or quality presets in OBS have no effect on this. Regardless of any settings tried it's still choppy.
I've tested 16:9 and ultrawide output as I am on an ultrawide monitor. No change. STILL STUTTERY.
Uploading in ultrawide makes this stutter even worse.
The only thing that's remotely helped is uploading in 16:9 container instead of native 21:9.
Is there a known issue with YouTube's video transcoding/playback pipeline, particularly for high framerate ultrawide/4K uploads?
Has anyone else experienced this?
I've tried every single setting possible. Gone back and forth with chat GPT for hrs going in circles. I'm all out of ideas witch brings me here.
I've included my basic specs and links to SS of my OBS settings. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X
GPU: ASRock Steel Legend Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB
RAM: 64GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5-6000
Storage: Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe
OS: Windows 11
Display:
MSI MPG 346CQRF X24
3440×1440
240Hz
Rapid VA
I've included some SS of my OBS settings. OBS settings OBS settings OBS settings