OBS Studio 0.14 Adds NVIDIA NVENC Video Encoding Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OBS Studio 0.14 Adds NVIDIA NVENC Video Encoding Support

The OBS Studio open-source software for screencasting and recording is now available as a major update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OBS-Studio-0.14-Released

[Guest]

Yay! Waiting for Handbrake and FFmpeg to catch up too

They actually use NVENC implementation from FFmpeg, so I guess you have it backwards. Unfortunatedly nvenc is supported with ffmpeg-3.0 which many distributions still haven't stabilized since it breaks quite a few packages (notably it used to break vlc until recently).

[Laser]

Yay! Waiting for Handbrake and FFmpeg to catch up too

Why would you want to have that codec in Handbrake? NVENC is really bad quality-wise. You usually only want it if you want to encode videos when CPU time is really important and bandwidth doesn't matter too much (i.e. streaming). For anything else, x264 - even the fast profiles - are the much better choice.

[Helios747]

Yeah, NVENC crushes the hell out of colors in shadowplay / Windows OBS recordings.

Unfortunately, OBS also causes frame time spikes on my system with x264. I can't win.

[Vidar]

So is NVENC supposed to be better than Media Foudation's NVENC on Windows?

[vivnet]

NVENC was actually already available in OBS on Linux through the advanced stream/record feature.

This update just adds it to the simple stream/record feature.