I have been speedrunning oot on emulator for a while and i was wondering what are the best settings for OBS for someone with not the best upload speed and computer I run on PJ 64 1.7 btw
Replies will be very helpful :)
I personally recommend switching to XSplitBroadcaster. its what speedrunners usually use to my knowledge, myself included. Just throw on a background of whatever youd like and do screen capture of your emulator along with your livesplit or whatever timer you use. you can also choose what server you use so just choose a server closest to your location. I hope this helped you out
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Like the goron bracelet said above, never ever use XSplit. Bad software. Settings for OBS really depends on your upload speed, but when you aren't a Twitch Partner (quality options) I would say keep our encoding bitrate setting below 1500, or else people with not amazing connections might be unable to watch your stream. You say "you need a solid answer" but I can't really give a solid answer without any solid info on what your speeds are.
Edit: Also, try to keep your layout simple, there's no need to have any fancy "layout" or whatever outside of what you can do within Livesplit. Make the game feed perfect 4:3 ratio and put it on the right side of the screen, then put your splits and (optional) cam on the left.
Layout with perfect resolutions for 1280x720: 
completely disregard what i said about xsplit, they are right its a terrible software. I switched to OBS and i am much more satisfied. But Torje said it best, its hard to say cause it depends on what your speeds are and all that stuff. and as for your layout, honestly just look at some other OOT streamers and see what they do for theirs, and hopefully that'll give you some sense of what to base yours off of. Good luck with getting everything optimal and to your liking, it usually takes some playing around with the software to really get it how you want it.
i stream/record at 853x480 because my laptop is garbage lol
i would recommend that resolution if your computer/internet has a hard time with even 720p
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