Question / Help is there any capture device support OBS with their hardware encoder?

[crybrant]

I bought Avermedia LGP and Elgato. Both of them claim that they do hardware encoding on official sites.
However, their performance hit are HUGE when i use them as my video source in OBS.

so i am wondering if there are ANY capture devices that do the encoding for obs and reduce my cpu usage significantly?

thank you

 

[Jack0r]

removed the x.... question, wrong forum

The LGP and Elgato both always encode their footage. Without this, they could not send the higher resolution video input to your PC over the poor USB 2.0 port. OBS now has to grab this footage and combine it with whatever you add to your scenes and will then send it to an available encoder.
Currently supported are x264 (CPU) quicksync (iGPU) or nvenc (Nvidia GPU).

To my knowledge the Live Gamer HD is the only device with a real Hardware encoder that could be used for encoding, but there is no freely available SDK and even on x... you can only use either the encoder or the capture card. AND the quality is pretty bad on low bitrates, so you cannot use it for streaming.

So the answer to your question is yes. Capture devices with hardware encoders are supported, but only as input for OBS, not as a encoder.

 

[Lain]

USB 2.0 devices can't be used as custom encoders. Live gamer HD (internal card) however can. It's possible to get it working (and may eventually become available in the newer versions of OBS), but I can't really spend time on it at this point in time.