Question / Help Hardware encoding for H264 with only key frames

lonely spud

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Using simple mode with QSV and the indistinguishable quality setting, the recordings are terrific. I want to cut the commercials from my recordings, but the files generated with those settings seem to have a minimum key interval length of one second (30 frames?) To cut commercials requires a frame-accurate editor; but I am too cheap to pay for something with smart rendering like VideoReDo.

My solution is to use custom ffmpeg mode with libx264 and set the key interval to one. The resulting quality is good enough and I can cut commercials with the free AviDemux editor on any frame. The files are much smaller than using lossless mode which produces a large .avi file.

My dumb question is... can the GPU assist in creating a H264file with key frames only? If so, how would I configure this in OBS?

Is there a better solution (besides lossless avi mode?)
 
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