VP6 support
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paibox
heros in an halfshel
Because the Flash player, as it stands, only supports three different codecs. Sorenson Spark (basically h.263), On2 VP6 (which is a proprietary codec, and we can't use it) and h.264. Any difference in quality between h.264 and VP6 would not be beneficial anyway.
Flash Player does not support VP8, and thus it can't be used for streaming. Custom encoder support has been suggested a few times, and may make it in there, but don't hold your breath and don't expect to be able to use these custom encoders to stream to RTMP-based sites like Twitch and alike.
paibox
heros in an halfshel
So you ignored my entire post except for the word "Twitch"?
Almost all streaming services use an RTMP server of some kind. uStream, DailyMotion, YouTube, just to name a few, and the only RTMP player that has the desired features for these sites is currently Adobe Flash Player. The problem has absolutely nothing to do with streaming games, it has to do with the available infrastructure.
Like I said, support for custom encoders for local recording might get implemented, but you will not be able to stream with these, unless Adobe specifically implements support for them, or some other solution shows up.
Almost all streaming services use an RTMP server of some kind. uStream, DailyMotion, YouTube, just to name a few, and the only RTMP player that has the desired features for these sites is currently Adobe Flash Player. The problem has absolutely nothing to do with streaming games, it has to do with the available infrastructure.
Like I said, support for custom encoders for local recording might get implemented, but you will not be able to stream with these, unless Adobe specifically implements support for them, or some other solution shows up.
What if we're streaming to something that supports ffmpeg like VLC or MPC? I also would like VP8 support (I imagine for the exact same reason rincewind wants it)
I want to be able to open an RTMP stream using VP8 on my second monitor. It should be doable with something like FFsplit to ffmpeg but having the support in OBS would be really nice.
paibox
heros in an halfshel
Again, this will not be added to the regular version of OBS. It is perfectly possible to add custom encoder outputs to obs-studio, but we're not really going to prioritize adding support for things that are only useful for a very small minority of people, RTMP output to streaming services that are already available is always first on the list.
There is an ffmpeg output module, but it isn't very useful for the sometimes frail conditions when doing live streaming, as ffmpeg itself doesn't have any frame dropping code, so you just end up with an infinite video drift delay if you drop frames while streaming.
There is an ffmpeg output module, but it isn't very useful for the sometimes frail conditions when doing live streaming, as ffmpeg itself doesn't have any frame dropping code, so you just end up with an infinite video drift delay if you drop frames while streaming.
Why not allow us to use custom codecs then why limit us to a crap codec like that its very crappy for quality and very crappy on resources I should not have to buy a 2g PC for this app.Also no one is asking to implement propitiatory codec just the options to run what we wanna run in the future, please think about that please.
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