Youtube HLS or RTMP? What's the difference.
- Thread starter Leofunk
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YouTube Live Streaming Ingestion Protocol Comparison (google.com)
In short, HLS is "better for 4K resolution because of HEVC support. Supports HDR. Not suitable for ultra-low latency."
It's worth noting that OBS doesn't support HDR, and we don't expose HEVC support.
In short, HLS is "better for 4K resolution because of HEVC support. Supports HDR. Not suitable for ultra-low latency."
It's worth noting that OBS doesn't support HDR, and we don't expose HEVC support.
I don't do political speak. I personally don't know the licenses well enough to comment accurately, I just know that due to the complexity of the license(s) for HEVC, OBS does not provide a way to use HEVC when encoding. My perspective on this topic is incredibly simple because I have never had a reason to dig into HEVC myself - I'm just a random code contributor & support volunteer when it comes down to it.
RockNRollGeek
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Being that OBS supports custom FFMPEG output, I'd recommend you try that route using the nvenc_hevc output in advanced options if you want to use hevc that badly.
Another route would be to either send a full screen projector output from program (or decklink output if you have a BM card) out to a separate hardware HEVC HLS encoder.
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GME
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Unfortunately I only have an AMD (RX480) in my system, was just curious :) Thanks for the info though, will come in handy for the future maybe :)
Dream's Unlimited
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hey should i choose rtmp or hsl?
