Question / Help What is the "b-frames"? (NVENC)

Boildown

Boildown

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The more B-Frames the higher the quality, generally speaking. Is this even possible to set in NVEnc? Didn't think it was.
 
Boildown

Boildown

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Schauerland said:
Well, it's more for smaller size that better quality.
Bframes are very performance hungry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression_picture_types
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First, when its constant bitrate video, smaller size = better quality. Second, when its a hardware encoder, the computational increase doesn't matter as long as the ASIC or whatever it is can keep up (doesn't drop frames).

For x264 (or any software H.264 implementation), just cranking up B-Frames is bad because there's usually better features to turn on for more benefit and/or less CPU cost. For a hardware encoder, that rule doesn't apply unless someone has measured it and found that it does.
 
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VP_Tim

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Boildown said:
First, when its constant bitrate video, smaller size = better quality. Second, when its a hardware encoder, the computational increase doesn't matter as long as the ASIC or whatever it is can keep up (doesn't drop frames).

For x264 (or any software H.264 implementation), just cranking up B-Frames is bad because there's usually better features to turn on for more benefit and/or less CPU cost. For a hardware encoder, that rule doesn't apply unless someone has measured it and found that it does.
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Well, when i set my b-frames to "2", i drop like ~60% of frames, so it becomes 10fps instead of 30 for me. Have no idea at all how to use it properly, so i just don't use it.

http://image.prntscr.com/image/17897fc90a9749e3a4bae6fedc2d08af.png
 
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soncekw

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im using 3 bframes for my recording for HEVC quick sync. my goal is to have high quality 1080p30 and smallest size. due to my storage issue.
 
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soncekw

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im wanting to use VVC for encoding but im not sure if my laptop will be able to support it and i dunno what format can do it anyway.
 
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