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For a YouTube live encoder running on a cyber café PC, start with H.264, constant bitrate (CBR), a two-second keyframe interval and 30 fps. Choose 720p at 8 Mbps if the connection can sustain it with headroom during busy hours; 1080p at 14 Mbps needs more upload capacity. These are YouTube’s recommended live bitrates, not a guarantee that a shared café connection or a particular PC can maintain them. If by “export settings” you mean a video file to upload, that is a separate workflow from a live encoder feed.
Live stream settings: start with the encoder, not an export preset
A cyber café PC sending a continuous feed to YouTube needs live encoder settings. An MP4 export preset is for uploading a finished video file; it does not set the bitrate of a live encoder connection. YouTube’s official live guidance recommends the following baseline settings. The retrieved guidance does not state a publication year.
| Setting | Recommended starting point |
|---|---|
| Protocol | RTMPS, if the encoder supports it; YouTube recommends the encrypted RTMP extension. |
| Video codec | H.264 |
| Scan and pixels | Progressive scan; square pixels |
| Color | Rec. 709 for SDR |
| Rate control | CBR (constant bitrate) |
| Frame rate | 30 fps as a lower-motion, lower-bandwidth baseline; YouTube supports up to 60 fps. |
| Keyframe interval | 2 seconds; do not exceed 4 seconds. |
| Audio | AAC or MP3. For stereo, YouTube lists 128 Kbps at 44.1 kHz in its advanced live settings. |
Use YouTube’s current live encoder settings and bitrate recommendations to check the complete requirements for your chosen resolution and encoder.
Choose 720p or 1080p based on measured upload capacity
YouTube recommends 8 Mbps for H.264 720p30 live video and 14 Mbps for H.264 1080p30 live video. YouTube also recommends leaving 20% upload-bandwidth headroom. Applying that guidance, the stream needs approximately 9.6 Mbps of available upload capacity at 720p30 or 16.8 Mbps at 1080p30, before accounting for other traffic. The headroom calculation is a practical application of YouTube’s recommendation, not an India-specific connection benchmark.
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| Live output | YouTube recommended H.264 bitrate | Approximate available upload capacity with 20% headroom | When to consider it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 720p30 | 8 Mbps | About 9.6 Mbps | A reasonable starting point when the PC has enough sustained spare upload capacity during café peak hours. |
| 1080p30 | 14 Mbps | About 16.8 Mbps | Consider it only if a representative test remains healthy with this higher sustained upload demand. |
The higher resolution is not automatically the better choice for your setup. Café customers and staff may share the same connection, reducing the bandwidth available to the streaming PC. YouTube says the total stream bitrate cannot exceed available upload bandwidth and warns that shared network use can constrain an individual stream. Check YouTube’s guidance on internet bandwidth for live streaming; a download-speed result does not establish that outbound capacity is sufficient.
Configure and test the cyber café PC
- Confirm the workflow. Use the live encoder settings above if software on the PC is sending video to YouTube in real time. If you instead have a finished video file to upload, use YouTube’s separate upload recommendations.
- Measure upload speed when it matters. Test the connection during representative busy hours, not only when the café is quiet. Check the upload capacity available to the stream and allow the 20% headroom YouTube recommends, plus capacity for unrelated traffic.
- Set the encoder. Select H.264, CBR, 30 fps, a two-second keyframe interval, progressive scan, square pixels and Rec. 709 for SDR. Choose RTMPS if available. Set the bitrate to the YouTube recommendation for your chosen resolution: 8 Mbps for 720p30 or 14 Mbps for 1080p30.
- Set audio. Select AAC or MP3. For stereo, YouTube lists 128 Kbps and 44.1 kHz in its advanced live settings.
- Run a representative stream test. Include movement and audio similar to the material you plan to stream. Check YouTube’s stream health and the encoder while the café is operating under typical network load. YouTube’s instruction is: “Make sure to test before you start your live stream.”
- Adjust if the test is unstable. If the stream cannot maintain its selected bitrate or stream health deteriorates, test again at a lower resolution and its corresponding YouTube-recommended bitrate rather than assuming the café connection can sustain 1080p.
Use YouTube’s live stream test and stream-health guidance during this check. No café-specific sustained upload figure, peak-hour contention measurement or power-reliability statistic is established here, so the test on the actual PC and connection is essential.
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If you mean a prerecorded video upload
For a finished video file uploaded to YouTube, use its separate upload guidance. That workflow includes an MP4 container and H.264 video. Those are file-upload recommendations, not the live-ingest bitrate table above; do not use an ordinary export preset as a substitute for configuring a live encoder. See YouTube’s video upload encoding recommendations.
Plan for archives on a continuous stream
YouTube says streams shorter than 12 hours can be automatically archived, but a stream exceeding 12 hours may not be captured at all. If retaining the broadcast matters, keep a local recording backup. This is an archive consideration, not a bitrate rule or a recommendation that every stream follow a particular restart schedule. See YouTube’s live stream archiving guidance.
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