Bitrate options

[aakopa]

Why is 750 kb/s lowest option for bitrate? There should be at least 450kb/s option.

[Don Vincenzoo 57]

750kb/s is already too much for lot of people .... bad connection for rural people :)

[AFFM]

If you go too low the stream quality will become unwatchable. Since the lowest resolution is 720p, anything below 750 is probably going to be absolutely unrecognizable as far as high motion / detailed scenes

[aakopa]

Actually the lowest resolution available is 360p.

[Don Vincenzoo 57]

Originally posted by A Fancy Fridge Magnet:

If you go too low the stream quality will become unwatchable. Since the lowest resolution is 720p, anything below 750 is probably going to be absolutely unrecognizable as far as high motion / detailed scenes

with OBS and twitch you can achieve 720P great quality with 300ko/s

Twitch recommends following bitrates per resolution. note that you can run lower rates as well but quality would be pretty bad.

(divide kbit/s by 1024 to get Mbit/s)

1080p: 3000-3500 kb/s

720p: 1800-2500 kb/s

480p: 900-1200 kb/s

360p: 600-800 kb/s

240p: Up to 500 kb/s

[AFFM]

Originally posted by aakopa:

Actually the lowest resolution available is 360p.

Ah, my mistake. I didn't see those originally.

[kalirion]

my DSL upload speed is 128kbps (yup, that's 16 kilobytes per second). I don't think I'll be broadcasting anything.

[aakopa]

Mine is 650kb/s and I can't allocate it all to streaming.

[Don Vincenzoo 57]

Originally posted by kalirion:

my DSL upload speed is 128kbps (yup, that's 16 kilobytes per second). I don't think I'll be broadcasting anything.

i can confirm that to you .... really not enough ...

[Aetos]

Agreed, Steam please add lower bitrates, my internet upload speed cannot handle 750kb/s. Obviously not ideal to sharing to a large audience, but sometimes I might want to share something quickly to a steam friend. Otherwise please add capture/saving functions :)

[Don Vincenzoo 57]

Originally posted by Aetos:

Agreed, Steam please add lower bitrates, my internet upload speed cannot handle 750kb/s. Obviously not ideal to sharing to a large audience, but sometimes I might want to share something quickly to a steam friend. Otherwise please add capture/saving functions :)

at 750 the tream quality will be very low and unpleaant to follow :)

[Wyeth]

Yeah /signed I have 500 kbits and I can stream fine using OBS with twitch, its not "unrecognizable" at all... maybe slightly blurry. Yeah please add lower options or custom bit rates.

[Karl Toastbrot]

Yes, we need lower bitrate.
600kbit/s is good for me and the quality is not that bad (in 360p). I dont want to be a "big streamer", I just want to stream to my friends to show them something or to show them my problems so they can help me. A livestream is better than words, pics or videos.

[Lunatix]

Make it real Valve !

[Donny Benét]

Who would want to watch a 500kb- stream?
Isn't it ♥♥♥♥? Might be wrong, but I would not enjoy it.

[Elmo]

Not sure if someone already mentioned this, the minimum bitrate needed is dependent on the type of encoder you are using with Steam Broadcast. If you are using a hardware encoder like nvenc, you will need a much higher bitrate than the software encoders. If you have a powerful processor, you should have the freedom to configure the x264 encoding so that you can get high quality at a lower bitrate. Steam Broadcast would have to grab some ideas from Open Broadcaster Software to allow their users more flexibility with the encoding process.