Serious Quality Issues with AVC1 and VP9 Compression on YouTube

[Migue12HD]

Hello,

I’m experiencing significant quality problems when uploading videos to YouTube.

When uploading videos encoded with AVC1 (H.264) at 1080p, I notice heavy pixelation in many areas, especially around fine edges and important graphical details, which severely degrades visual quality.

On the other hand, uploading in VP9 (for example, at 2K or higher resolutions) improves overall sharpness, but the video appears blurred and simplified, losing textures and fine details.

I’ve tried various bitrates, encoding settings, and resolutions, but the results remain very unsatisfactory for content that requires high graphical fidelity.

My goal is to upload videos that preserve the original graphical quality as much as possible, without these annoying artifacts or excessive detail loss.

Is there any encoding parameter or platform setting that can improve this? Is there an option for YouTube to apply less compression or use better settings?

I would appreciate any advice or solutions to help me maintain the visual quality of my videos on YouTube.

Thank you in advance.

[pandy]

Contact with YT support and ask them - you can search for YT alternatives - some services ( i recall Vimeo payed account) offer possibility to download original media file. YT will re-compress any uploaded file accordingly to own, internal settings, those settings are beyond user control.