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tutorial course.
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Check that before asking questions, and check the introduction video to learn how this course
works, if you get confused.
With Nvidia graphics cards or newer AMD graphics cards, you have the option of selecting the
hardware encoder within OBS studio to do the processing for you.
For AMD cards this is called “AMD Video Compression Engine” or “VCE,” for Nvidia
it’s called “Nvidia Nvenc.”
To use this for your recording or streaming, go to your output settings and see where it
says “encoder” and “x264.”
Click the dropdown and change it to VCE or Nvenc.
This records and streams without lag, as it utilizes the extra processing headroom on
your graphics card to encode the video.
Graphics cards have always had and advertised video encoding capabilities, but we’ve never
had the tools to use it.
Now we do.
Some Intel processors also have “Intel QuickSync” encoding options available for this, but the
video quality is significantly worse with QuickSync than normal x264 or the other hardware
encoding options.
It’s worth trying if it’s available to you, but don’t be surprised if you don’t
like the result.
A general word of advice here, though: streaming with hardware encoding at low bitrates looks
much worse than using x264.
X264 looks much better at low bitrates, whereas hardware encoding actually tends to look better
than x264 at higher bitrates.
So generally it’s recommended to use hardware encoding for recording since you’ll be using
high bitrates and x264 for streaming at low bitrates.
That also still relieves some of the pressure on your CPU if you stream and record at the
same time.
If your system still struggles with x264 for streaming, you can use hardware encoding for
it, it will just not look quite as good.
The choice is yours.
If you’ve used Nvidia Shadowplay in the past, you may have experienced audio de-sync
issues due to the variable framerate way of recording Shadowplay uses.
While OBS Studio can use the Nvenc encoder, it does not have these issues and will record
to a locked framerate and no de-sync as a result.
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