Nielso<p>A little <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Livestreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Livestreaming</span></a> and <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Video</span></a>🧵 (1/x)</p><p>I'm upset with <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/OBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OBS</span></a> again on <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>, and on not so upset at the same time.</p><p>Well, it's doing wonders on my old <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Intel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intel</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Xeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xeon</span></a> studio machine / number crunching beast with old <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/AMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AMD</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Radeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radeon</span></a> graphics and 3 screens connected.</p><p>More precisely, it is encoding h264 on the GPU at high mbps rates for recording, while at the same time shrinking data into 8mbps AV1 on the CPU running at approx 33% load across all 16 virtual cores.</p><p>However, on none of my Intel mobile GPU gear, OBS does anything useful at all. It doesn't use Intels h264 GPU encoding, because it supplies wrong arguments to lib_ffmpeg. And it's too slow for decent libx264 <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/livestream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>livestream</span></a> encoding on the CPU. It breaks down on AV1 and h265 on the CPU.</p><p>All of these systems are elderly computes, but it could work, if OBS developers were more interested in Linux. I assume their focus is on Windows gamerzzz.</p>