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This is a super interesting project, and the video is really well presented and explained, if you prefer that format.

I think this method could be brought even further by using 'thin clients' (a cheap laptop or used office mini-PC), making it possible to access the main gaming rig from any room in the house as long as you have access to a good network speed.

Utilizing a 'dummy' HDMI or Displayport stick, which simulates a monitor for the GPU, you could then remote into the gaming rig from a thin client-like PC through Moonlight/Sunlight, allowing you to use it as a fully fledged gaming or workstation PC.

If anyone decides to go that route, be aware that AMD GPU's have pretty notoriously bad encoders, so I'd recommend sticking with Nvidia (Pascal/1000 series or newer) or Intel GPU's/Integrated Graphics (6th generation 6000 series or newer) for the Host machine. It's a little less important for the client, I think.

EDIT: AMD did actually improve their encoders in recent years, starting with the Raven Ridge integrated graphics APUs, and the first generation Navi cards (RX 5700 onward, the lower end cards don't have it).

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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 69 points 3 days ago (5 children)

AMD GPU's have pretty notoriously bad encoders/decoders, so I'd recommend sticking with Nvidia or Intel GPU's.

Where do people get this idea??

Here is 1440p 60fps from my 6700 XT

https://youtu.be/F4mFHM6aAiA

Ive been using emby for a few years and firefox doesn't support HVEC where all my content is HVEC and have had 0 issues with my gpu re-encoding the video

Its just nvidia fanboy bs

[–] mat@linux.community 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What magic incantation are you using? My OBS either crashes with the ffmpeg setting or uses software enc, and is always blurry. Firefox does all video and audio enc+dec on CPU. Am on all-AMD NixOS and so far gave up on any hw accel for media.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure this was using steam recording. Majority of videos on my channel were using the Arrenaline driver suite. Still setting up Bazite

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's not fanboy BS though, AMD encoders used to be pretty rough compared to Nvidia's, specially at lower bitrates.

They've improved a lot as the generations went on however, to the point I believe that advice no longer applies.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well I'll be damned! AMD does seem to have up their encoder game with the Navi series onward.

They were rightfully called out as having pretty bad encoders before that though, which I personally experienced on an RX 480 I used to have in my system. It made parsec a bit blurry and added quite a bit of latency.

Also, I would stand by the recommendation to avoid older office PC's with AMD graphics, since none of them are going to have Navi graphics.

[–] who@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

avoid older office PC’s with AMD graphics though, since none of them are going to have Navi graphics.

The key word here being older. These days, AMD CPUs have a couple of Navi graphics cores built in, and they're good for both office tasks and video encoding.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

True, for anyone who has a more modern AMD laptop, it would fare well with Parsec.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It want that long ago. Just read any OBS posts. Honestly I haven't kept up with it for a while. A quick search shows discussions continue. Does appear most still think Nvidia has the best quality.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago

AMD used to be the shit on Linux a decade ago, much better support than Nvidia. It looks like something changed, but I only use discrete intel GPUs so I’m way out of the loop.