Playing the local file on your PC looks nice and crisp, but why do your 1080p videos look so bad, blurry, pixelated, etc once you upload them to YouTube?

TLDW: you did everything right, it's on YouTube's end, you gotta force upscale your 1080p videos/streams to "false" 1440p.

This forces YouTube to use their much better VP9 codec instead of their resource-cheap AVC1 codec, which is the default for 1080p videos and streams.

I don't know of any way to retroactively force YouTube to use VP9 on a video you've already uploaded. If anyone knows, leave a comment and I'll pin it so others can learn.

Samples are from my War Thunder streams, I had to learn all of this the hard way.

good luck out there

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00:00 intro
00:09 basic explanation of what's happening
00:18 AVC1 1080p sample
00:38 VP9 "false" 1440p sample
00:49 how to fix
01:03 how to verify you're using the correct codec after you upload

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