Question / Help Second stream PC or capture card encoding on single PC?

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jahnee

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Don't know if I should invest on a second stream PC or just add a AVERMEDIA Live Gamer HD Lite and use hardware encoding?

If I understand correct this card can do h.264 live encoding direct from the dvi/hdmi cable source, decreasing cpu workload?

So the only cpu load left on the system will be from OBS uploading activities?

My build is a fx 8350, 990FX Extreme 3, 8gb ram, msi 760gtx sli,120ssd, 1tera hdd.

My plan was to build a budget fx 6300 stream PC or should I just get add the pic-e capture card?
 
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Blauwhelmpje

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Not exactly answering questions here but:

Videocapture devices/cards are mainly used to capture consoles and offer close to no benefit when using a one pc stream setup compared to software encoding these days(last I heard at least).

At the moment I use a 2500k gaming system and a 3710qm streaming laptop with just a preconfigured rmtp ubuntu virtual box inside win8.1 on the laptop.. No mess with audio. Just set up obs on gaming pc and use nvenc or quicksync to send data at 50mbps to the rtmp laptop which then transfers it to twitch/hitbox or both. Super easy.

I have a hauppauge hd pvr 2 gaming edition usb capture device hooked to the streaming pc directly(that also has an OBS client installed) to stream some console gameplay.

Just search: rmtp preconfigured You might like it
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

Forum Moderator
OBS does not support the Live Gamer HD's hardware encoder and probably never will. It's quite poor quality for live streaming anyway, with an 8350 you should be using x264. If you're going to do a 2PC setup then don't skimp, an FX6300 would be a waste unless you already have one laying around.
 
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