Question / Help Level and GPU?

[JJOR64]

I assume this has been answered somewhere before, but I couldn't find anything. Anyways, I was just curious what Level and GPU settings do when I use NVENC.

Thanks!

 

[Boildown]

Level is meta-info about the maximum resolution x framerate (pixel rate) and a few other things that are in the video file/stream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Levels . This was useful for old players that could only handle so much information at one time, but for modern players/devices not really a concern any more, they should be able to play any Level video.

The auto setting means that NVEnc calculates the "Level" instead of making you set it yourself. There's a bug in OBS where x264 calculates it wrong sometimes, but I've never seen that happen to NVEnc, so you can safely keep it on auto.

I think the GPU setting is for people with more than 1 graphics adapter, not sure though.

 

[JJOR64]

Thanks for explaining Level. As for GPU, I am able to choose a value between 0 and 8. Maybe a quality thing?

 

[R1CH]

GPU is the 0-based index of which GPU to use.

 

[JJOR64]

Thanks!