Converted HLS stream is very poor quality

Hello,

Knowing output bitrate isn't necessarily enough to go on. Complexity of the video content, framerate, resolution, and other encoding settings such as GOP, # of B Frames, and more all make an impact on the output quality.

I have a few questions to help troubleshoot:

A) When you have a moment, could you PM me your Account ID, the Job ID, and the region the job was ran? This will help me get a closer look at your settings.

B) Did you run this job based off of an existing MediaConvert Preset? Or did you build the job settings from scratch?

C) May I ask what exactly about the output video quality is bad?

Thank you!
-Jared

After a very helpful reply from @awsjarede, I got a really great output.

Firstly, I went from a bitrate of 5000 to 5000000

From the reply:
"Other settings I would suggest in general would be:
Specify the Framerate, rather than using Follow Source. This helps make sure all your output framerates are consistent regardless of the input framerates.
-Pixel Aspect ratio: Square Pixels (again, same logic as not following the framerate)
-GOP Size: 2 Seconds (I tend to see this across most customers, should very slightly improve video quality)
-Flicker Adaptive Quantization: Enabled (again, very slight VQ improvement)"

"The only other setting I might recommend would be to change the segment length in the HLS Output from 10 seconds to 2 seconds. It allows players to download segments faster and I see it commonly used by customers."