question for streamers using obs

[BUREIDEN]

if i buy an avermedia live portable gamer would i be able to capture and encode it in obs using NVENC? (i was told NVENC uses a dedicated chip on newer nvidia gpus) only reason i want to know is i wonna use the avermedia to capture my ps4 and pc and i was wandering if i could off loud the usage from my cpu to the dedicated chip on my 960 since they both encode in h.264

[PlayStation 2]

Can you stream already using... that?

[BUREIDEN]

Can you stream already using... that?

yes however i cant capture and stream my ps4 with out skyrocketing my cpu usage wich is why i was asking if nvenc could be used while capturing other devices

[KirbyTech]

yes however i cant capture and stream my ps4 with out skyrocketing my cpu usage wich is why i was asking if nvenc could be used while capturing other devices

Why would you need it to if you are not using your pc but instead using your ps4 unless I am not understanding you correctly

[BUREIDEN]

Why would you need it to if you are not using your pc but instead using your ps4 unless I am not understanding you correctly

stream my ps4 with out skyrocketing my cpu usage

[PlayStation 2]

yes however i cant capture and stream my ps4 with out skyrocketing my cpu usage wich is why i was asking if nvenc could be used while capturing other devices

No, I meant can you already stream using NVENC.

[KirbyTech]

stream my ps4 with out skyrocketing my cpu usage

Yeah but if you are not using your pc for anything other than streaming wy does it matter if you have high cpu usage

[burnttoastnice]

yes however i cant capture and stream my ps4 with out skyrocketing my cpu usage wich is why i was asking if nvenc could be used while capturing other devices

 

I'm sure the PS4 already has live streaming to twitch as well as gameplay recording built-in. Why do you need it going through your PC?

[bobhays]

I'm sure the PS4 already has live streaming to twitch as well as gameplay recording built-in. Why do you need it going through your PC?

I believe the streaming and video capture on the consoles are very limited

[PlayStation 2]

I'm sure the PS4 already has live streaming to twitch as well as gameplay recording built-in. Why do you need it going through your PC?

He probably knows the limitations of streaming directly FROM the console?

[Joshosaurus]

I believe that it would work but I don't own a Nvidia GPU so I cant help that much, but you should be able to offload the work to the gpu in OBS.

[burnttoastnice]

I believe the streaming and video capture on the consoles are very limited

He probably knows the limitations of streaming directly FROM the console?

 

I see. In this case OP shouldn't really be worried about the CPU usage going up, as long as he's holding a solid framerate and as long as the computer isn't cooking itself (badly cooled).

[AlwaysFSX]

I believe that is indeed how it works, if you set the codec to NVENC it will use your GPU to encode what you're capturing.

[Whorax]

I'm sure the PS4 already has live streaming to twitch as well as gameplay recording built-in. Why do you need it going through your PC?

Streaming is absolute shit on consoles as opposed to running it through your pc.

[BUREIDEN]

I believe that is indeed how it works, if you set the codec to NVENC it will use your GPU to encode what you're capturing.

thanks i figured it would only work when playing a pc game but ill try it and see if i can use nvenc while capturing a capture card

[DEDRICK]

You can use any encoder, but I highly recommend x264.  NVENC looks like trash at streaming bitrates