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    Screen Recording Woes: Black Screen Issue with Browser Hardware Acceleration

    Hey everyone, I've been dabbling with screen recording some lectures lately and stumbled upon a curious issue that I thought I'd share here. Maybe you can shed some light on this. So, here's the thing: Whenever I try to record a lecture with hardware acceleration enabled in Chrome, the final...
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    How can i change or choose GPU for 3D Acceleration for OBS?

    Hardware Setup: 2x Xeon X5680 2x GTX 690 (in Windows they are recognized as 4 diffirent GPUs, from #0 to #3) I need 16 copies of OBS running simultaneously. I've made 16 different .exe copies of OBS for this propose. Each of them strats by '.bat " file with defined Scene and Profile. Every 4...
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    Hardware Acceleration makes OBS Crash

    Hi, I've been having this issue for months where I will be streaming using hardware acceleration, and then the stream will randomly crash, but OBS stays open, showing 0 kb/s. When trying to stop streaming via OBS, OBS itself will crash. When the program closes, I have to go into task manager to...
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    Problem with Apple VT H264 Hardware Encoder

    Imac (2020 i9 amd 5700xt) figured id try Hardware Encoding because it would make sense to use less cpu if im gaming on my mac. (i know i know) It actually worked very well and used extremely little cpu compared to x264 encoding, until i looked at the result. The file looks great, but it takes a...
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    Mac Hardware Encoder Doesn’t Respect Bitrate Limit

    Hi, I’m on the latest build and I’m having trouble getting consistent nitrates using the Mac Hardware Encoder. I’ve limited the bitrate to 2800kbps, but it’s still regularly spiking to over 6000kbps. I know this particular encoder has been troublesome in the past, but I need to use it on an...
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    Question / Help Can't use Apple VT H264 Hardware Encoder on iMac (5K, 2019)

    Hello, I'm using iMac 5K 2019 (i9 9900K, Radeon Pro 580X, RAM 64GB) at my church. When I go into settings, I could see X264, Apple VT H264 Software Encoder and Hardward Encoder. But when choose hardware encoder, it showed error and couldn't use it. So I've set X264 for streaming and Apple VT...
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    Question / Help Chrome With Hardware Acceleration and 1050 ti

    I have a Windows 10 laptop with a nvidia 1050 ti (its a dual gpu system). I cannot figure out how to record chrome with hardware acceleration turned on (trying to record Stadia gameplay, so I have to leave it on). I tried following these instructions...
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    Question / Help Hardware acceleration of Media/VLC sources

    So I am curious if anyone knows of any fixes. I try to load in a couple of media or VLC sources, or even just one, to give some animation to my stream overlay. I stream on Twitch using an x264 encoder and run at about 50%-60% on my cpu the whole time when streaming. It is a secondary stream PC...
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    Question / Help OBS refuses to display with hardware acceleration

    Hello, I've been using OBS for streaming for more than a year now and since yesterday, for no particular reason, OBS doesn't display anything else than a black screen when i try to use the window capture, game capture, or sometimes even display capture (which in this case, simply freezes the...
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    Question: Why doesn't OBS use newer ffmpeg libraries? And will hardware accelerated encodeing (ffmpeg -hwaccel options) ever be added?

    Just a couple of questions I was curious about. First, how come OBS doesn't use ffmpeg libraries from something like the newest stable release of ffmpeg? I understand it requires viewing ffmpeg change logs and modifying some library importing code, but it should be a fairly easy feat to do. I'm...
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