Encoding Overloaded

[Abboodeno]

Hi,

I know this may seem to be a software issue but I don't think so.. I'm facing an error while trying to capture 4K 60p video.

 

I want to capture the highest resolution/setting possible.. I just need to know why I'm getting this error (CPU ? GPU ? MEMORY ?)

 

In the recording settings :

 

Format : MKV
Encoder : Nvidia NVENC HEVC
Rate Control : CQP
CQ Level : 16
Preset : P7 Slowest (Best Quality) - Here is the issue, when I choose P7/P6 I get the error , but P5 is ok.
MultiPass Mode : Two passes (full resolution)

Software Used : OBS
Motherboard : MSI Pro b760-p wifi DDR4
CPU : Intel Core I5-13400F
Memory : Vcolor 8*2 16GB Skywalker plus RGB DDR-3600 SLVR
Storage : Kingston SSD (M.2) 1TB A2000 NVME-nv2
GPU : Palit Vgcard RTX 3060 Dual 12GB-DDR53
Case : Xigmatek phantom
Cooling : Xigmatek Cooler Air Killer  S
Power : Montech PSU 650W

 

Thank you for your time.

 

[emosun]

Reduce the quality. You're not going to capture uncompressed 4k video.

[SharmanDoom]

First of all, Nice PC, 2nd of all its a gaming PC. Your gpu and Cpu wont be able to keep up while also doing other things at the same time. If you had a 64 core threadripper and a 4090 then perhaps we would be having a different conversation. A 3060 12gb it struggles to run games at 4k max let alone record them at that/ do anything other than game. maybe try upgrading first if you must record uncompressed, 99.9% of the internet wont notice the difference between uncompressed and moderately compressed 4k due to other compression algos doing that work anyway, if you are uploading online anyway.

[StDragon]

Have you ruled out the known Intel 13th gen instability issue? You'll want to obtain the latest BIOS for your MB and see if that helps. Also disable overclocking too for testing.

[Abboodeno]

23 minutes ago, emosun said:

Reduce the quality. You're not going to capture uncompressed 4k video.

I just wanted to know if it was the GPU or some thing else.. thanks

[Abboodeno]

20 minutes ago, SharmanDoom said:

First of all, Nice PC, 2nd of all its a gaming PC. Your gpu and Cpu wont be able to keep up while also doing other things at the same time. If you had a 64 core threadripper and a 4090 then perhaps we would be having a different conversation. A 3060 12gb it struggles to run games at 4k max let alone record them at that/ do anything other than game. maybe try upgrading first if you must record uncompressed, 99.9% of the internet wont notice the difference between uncompressed and moderately compressed 4k due to other compression algos doing that work anyway, if you are uploading online anyway.

I agree , but I'm not playing on the same pc, I'm capturing from PS5..

[Abboodeno]

2 minutes ago, StDragon said:

Have you ruled out the known Intel 13th gen instability issue? You want to obtain the latest BIOS for your MB and see if that helps. Also disable overclocking too for testing.

All bios and chipset updated, I'll check the overclocking although I never enabled it.

[WereCat]

Have you tried reducing the capture settings? These seem way too excessive for 4k.

[mariushm]

1 hour ago, Abboodeno said:

Hi,

I know this may seem to be a software issue but I don't think so.. I'm facing an error while trying to capture 4K 60p video.

 

I want to capture the highest resolution/setting possible.. I just need to know why I'm getting this error (CPU ? GPU ? MEMORY ?)

 

In the recording settings :

 

Format : MKV
Encoder : Nvidia NVENC HEVC
Rate Control : CQP
CQ Level : 16
Preset : P7 Slowest (Best Quality) - Here is the issue, when I choose P7/P6 I get the error , but P5 is ok.
MultiPass Mode : Two passes (full resolution)

 

 

 

You're using CQP mode,  which is constant quantizer mode.  Think of it like the JPG quality percentage ... 0 is lossless, like png image, like 100% lossless jpeg, and something like 50 is 1% jpeg quality.

 

The video codec analyzes the frames and figures out what could be thrown out and starts throwing out some quality and calculates that quantizer level. As soon as the codec reaches that quantizer level you set (16 in your case), the codec will stop trying to throw more quality away and move on to next frames.

 

The Preset level in this context doesn't mean amount of  quality - it means more or less how much resources and how many "tools" should the codec try, how many permutations and calculations should attempt in order to achieve that quantizer level using less disk space.

A higher preset means potentially less disk space to encode one image at that quantizer level.  A one hour 4K video encoded at CQP 16 preset best may use 10 GB, one encoded at CQP16 and preset p4 may end up at 11 GB but visually it would be the same.