If you've been following my social media for the past few years, or have read my Recording or Streaming on NVIDIA Turing/Ampere guides, I'm always chasing the next higher level of "perfection". And this time I was chasing the lowest possible latency on Twitch - and it appears that I have finally found it, after days of trying.
It has been a while since I last checked out AV1, but even then AV1 was still dominating in quality and compression. Now it's time to revisit the tests I've done back then, so grab a coffee, take a seat, cause this is going to be one long ride.
While testing new updates to the VES testing suite, I discovered some weird behavior in NVENC. Here's a list of them, maybe NVIDIA can shed some light on it:
Every since publishing the guide on how to achieve the best possible NVIDIA NVENC quality with FFmpeg 4.3.x and below, people repeatedly ask me what the best possible recording settings are. So today, as a Christmas present, let me answer this question to the best of my knowledge and help all of you achieve a quality you've never seen before. Read the full guide here.
Streaming with more than one PC has been the leader in H.264 encoding for years, but NVIDIAs Turing and Ampere generation has put a significant dent into that lead. The new generation of GPUs with the brand new encoder brought comparable quality x264 medium - if you can find a GPU that is. Let's take a look at what's needed to set up your stream for massively improved quality.
