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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
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.
Pretty sure this was using steam recording. Majority of videos on my channel were using the Arrenaline driver suite. Still setting up Bazite
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.
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.
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.
True, for anyone who has a more modern AMD laptop, it would fare well with Parsec.
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.
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.