New Release OBS Studio 30.2petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.ml – 101 points – 2 months agogithub.com8Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentIt is literally just Nvidia Encoder. So hardware encoding on Nvidia GPUs. What codes are supported depends on the GPUSo 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.
It is literally just Nvidia Encoder. So hardware encoding on Nvidia GPUs. What codes are supported depends on the GPUSo 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.
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.
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.
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.