Question / Help [Question] Support for NVIDIA ShadowPlay

[arisus]

hello,

I've been reading a GF 780 GTX Review on AnandTech and there's a section that mentiones "ShadowPlay" a tech from NVIDIA that allows hardware supported video encoding:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6973/nvid ... 0-review/5

I was wondering if this will be supported in future versions of OBS ?

 

[alpinlol]

its just local recording 20minute videos in 1080@30 in the chosen folder.

 

[WayZHC]

I dont think this is going to be supported. Jim and others are focusing now on Quicksync which is more promising and has a lot more users. So if you want to use that nVidia's new technology, just write a plugin for it yourself. Very few people actually bought or are going to buy GTX780 so it wouldn't be really worth the time used to get it work with OBS.

 

[arisus]

@ alpinlol - ok great, how does that statement answer my question ?

@ WayZHC - I'm no programmer so probably won't write any plugins. From waht I understand the hardware encoder is included in every "Kepler GPU" (6xx, 7xx, and onwards...) so it's not limited to the awfylly-expensive GTX780. QuickSync seems to be the right way since during my encoding tests the cPU seemed to be the limiting factor.

Thanks for the answer.

 

[WayZHC]

@ alpinlol - ok great, how does that statement answer my question ?

@ WayZHC - I'm no programmer so probably won't write any plugins. From waht I understand the hardware encoder is included in every "Kepler GPU" (6xx, 7xx, and onwards...) so it's not limited to the awfylly-expensive GTX780. QuickSync seems to be the right way since during my encoding tests the cPU seemed to be the limiting factor.

Thanks for the answer.

Oh i didn't even know that. After some browsing i found out that it's really in all Kepler GPUs but it's not enabled in drivers for some unknown reason. Sounds like it wasn't ready at the release time of 600 series and now came with 700 series. I hope it's gonna be enabled also for 600 series. But not sure if it will be enabled for 600 series owners because if they made changes to the hardware, it wont be possible :/

 

[Lain]

It's possible, sure. Quicksync was implemented because an excellent coder with interest in making it happen came along and did just that. I had no interest personally in it before that, so you never know who may come along.