SnakeMan77
New Member
Greetings,
I am new here, and I don't know much tech stuff when it comes to computers, so please forgive my ignorance. I have a mid-2012 Mac Pro (specs below) that I use primarily as an audio workstation. However, in light of the current economical crisis I have picked up some other work that involves streaming video into a private server. I have tried unsuccessfully to do so with both OBS and Ecamm Live. No dice. After asking a tech-inclined friend, he told me that upgrading the video card would get me past the issue, but I had another tech guy tell me otherwise. He said:
"A GPU upgrade is unlikely going to help you. Both OBS and Ecamm Live are designed to run on machines that have hardware-accelerated video encoding. This is basically a special chip in the video card of all Macs (except Mac Pros) that can encode H2.64 video in real time."
Again forgive my ignorance, but is he basically saying that I need to invest in a new computer? Surely others have been able to successfully stream on this model Mac? Can anyone help me make sense of my real options? I'd be very grateful for any help. And please remember that I know very little about these matters, so give it to me in newbie terms! Thank you in advance.
- J.B.
SPECS:
Mid-2012 Mac Pro
Processor: 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Startup: SSD
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
I am new here, and I don't know much tech stuff when it comes to computers, so please forgive my ignorance. I have a mid-2012 Mac Pro (specs below) that I use primarily as an audio workstation. However, in light of the current economical crisis I have picked up some other work that involves streaming video into a private server. I have tried unsuccessfully to do so with both OBS and Ecamm Live. No dice. After asking a tech-inclined friend, he told me that upgrading the video card would get me past the issue, but I had another tech guy tell me otherwise. He said:
"A GPU upgrade is unlikely going to help you. Both OBS and Ecamm Live are designed to run on machines that have hardware-accelerated video encoding. This is basically a special chip in the video card of all Macs (except Mac Pros) that can encode H2.64 video in real time."
Again forgive my ignorance, but is he basically saying that I need to invest in a new computer? Surely others have been able to successfully stream on this model Mac? Can anyone help me make sense of my real options? I'd be very grateful for any help. And please remember that I know very little about these matters, so give it to me in newbie terms! Thank you in advance.
- J.B.
SPECS:
Mid-2012 Mac Pro
Processor: 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Startup: SSD
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB