No Hardware Encoder Option For Streaming

Nate Ridge

New Member
Hi guys, I've been using OBS to record videos for about a year now, decided I want to stream on twitch too. I was getting a lot of lag and 300%+ cpu load so I've looked on other forums and they suggest to go into stream settings and change the software encoder to hardware encoder. In the drop down menu I can see the hardware encoder option for recording settings however it isn't showing up in the streaming settings. I will attach a photo below. I'm on an iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021).
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