Hardware Acceleration

[magnu]

Hi there

When I have been using software to encode videos to another format I have stuck to using my PCs CPU even though I have an NVIDIA RTX 3070, simply because I've read others saying it's better to do this to get the best results.

But, considering it takes absolutely ages, I am now thinking if it is actually worth the wait, and maybe I should use Hardware Acceleration after all. What do others think?

[buzz1891]

If storage/filesize is not a problem, I use GPU encoding

[Smell]

I use NVENC even for things I'm distributing to others. CPU encoding IS better, but it's a small difference and takes wayyyy longer.

I have a Ryzen 9 5900X and RTX 3080. Even with NVENC set to "slowest" preset, it is about 10x faster than CPU encoding set to "slower".

I just set the bitrate slightly higher to compensate. Storage/bandwidth is cheap unless you're doing something on a commercial scale.