New Release OBS Studio 30.2

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Release OBS Studio 30.2 ยท obsproject/obs-studio
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A good video codec that is free!

A good fast video codec that is free included with some video cards!

You've certainly paid for it, and it's focus is on giving acceptable quality at high speed. For example, for streaming.

Isn't NVENC a hardware thing or a middleman for encoding boost?

It is literally just Nvidia Encoder. So hardware encoding on Nvidia GPUs. What codes are supported depends on the GPU

So it's definitely not a codec.

A codec is a module that encodes and decodes (COder/DECoder...CoDec) information into a format. That format might be H.264 or VP9 or whatever.

So yes. NvEnc is a codec, or at least, it is when partnered with the hardware decoding also. It's a codec for multiple formats.

No idea something GPU related I think. But AV1 is the codec, which is free and performant and high resolution.