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Re:OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and ... by zbobet2012 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:35AM (#22748972)
If you are using any of the many hardware-accelerated encoders available on desktop today the CPU is not at all limiting. Quicksync can run 9 HD h264 encodes, NVENC can run 4 to 17 depending on the card, etc.

Most OBS users don't configure software encode because of the resource issues.

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Re:OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and ... by eropple on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:14AM (#22749496)
This is very true, but it's worth noting that NVENC requires a Quadro card for more than one or two streams (depending on the model).
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Re:OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and ... by cthalupa on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:40PM (#22753805)
There are patches for the drivers to remove the limitation. No idea how that affects your license to use the drivers and such, though.

https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch

Windows version available in a directory of the main one, too.

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