Livestreaming encoding settings
  • 11 Apr 2025

Livestreaming encoding settings


Article summary

Before you begin

This article indicates encoding settings for an opitimized livestreaming experience.

Description

Encoding settings determine the quality of the video and audio that viewers will see and hear.

To avoid issues such as blurry, pixelated video, choppy audio, or even a complete failure to stream, we recommend that you use the following encoding settings.

Recommended encoding settings

Video Codec

h.264

H.264Preset

High

Video Format

720p

1080p

Video Resolution

1280x720

1920x1080

Video Keyframes

2s 

2s

Recommended
bitrate

1600 - 2640 Kbps

3200 - 4400  Kbps

Audio Codec

AAC

AAC

Audio Channels 

Stereo / Mono 

Stereo / Mono 

Audio Bitrate

64 or 128 Kbps

64 or 128 Kbps

Supported ingest protocols

RTMPS, SRT

RTMPS, SRT

Supported frame rate

up to 30 fps

up to 30 fps

Determine input bitrate

Source

The following information has been adapted from Wowza.

LiveStream Pro uses Wowza's streaming server for streaming live events.

To help you determine the input bitrate, we recommend that the size of the encode does not exceed your available bandwidth. 

Please allow at least 40% of your total available bandwidth for overhead.

For example, if you have a 10Mbps connection between your encoder and LSPRO platform, your total encoding presents should not exceed a total of 6Mbps.

We generally recommend the following for an optimal bitrate:

  • 0.10 bits per pixel for limited action content

  • 0.15 bits per pixel for high motion, complex action

Calculate bits per pixel

Use the following formula:

bitsPerPixel = bitrateKbps * 1000 / (width x height x frameRate)

As well, please follow the recommendations and capabilities of your source encoder.

Typical adaptive streaming bitrates

Following you can get an overview of the typical adaptive streaming bitrates that are used by the livestream player. This is useful if you want to estimate the traffic for an upcoming livestream.

Selected Livestream-Quality

360p

480p

720p

1080p

Adaptive Streaming Bitrate

365 Kbps

547 kbps

3000 kbps

4400 kbps


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