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[xSonic521x]

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[Osiris]

Probably as soon streaming services will be actually using it, which is gonna take a while.

 

[Fenrir]

It's already supported as OBS just uses ffmpeg. Update your ffmpeg install to a version that supports x265, but it's ill-suited for streaming right now.

 

[Osiris]

The major advantage would be needing less bitrate to achieve the same quality as with x264.
The major disadvantage is needing powerful hardware, or a GPU with full hardware encoding for h265, also the RTMP protocol doesn't support h265.

 

[DEDRICK]

The new AMD cards(Polaris) will have hardware H.265 encoding and decoding up to 4k@60FPS

H.265 is great, you get the same quality with nearly half(might even be a quarter?) the bitrate. Stream quality will make a huge jump when it becomes standard, right now though it is fairly intensive to encode with a CPU.

Decoding H.265 is pretty easy

 

[Osiris]

I know it's been a long while and a lot of development changes have been made to the x265 format so in regards to performance I can't imagine it being too demanding given today's hardware and how far x265 has come in efficiency. You can read up more about it here and even test it for yourself. http://x265.org/

http://x265.ru/en/x265-hd-benchmark/

Only the 8 core i7-5xxx CPUs get ~30fps.

 

[Jon Freed]

It's already supported as OBS just uses ffmpeg. Update your ffmpeg install to a version that supports x265, but it's ill-suited for streaming right now.

See this thread for a follow-up: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/x265-particularly-for-streaming-via-ffmpeg.60219/