OBS HW Offload

[panni]

As I can't post to the appropriate forum yet, because of reasons:

GStreamer-based NDI®-to-RTMP with VAAPI HW transcoding​

Ever wondered why you have an Intel CPU with QuickSync capabilities in your network, or a server with an Arc GPU, but you're still using your gaming machine's resources to transcode your video when streaming?

This solves that. The best example is using OBS with DistroAV to send a mostly lossless video/audio stream to the GStreamer NDI input, transcoding it using VAAPI and sending it to your RTMP target (custom RTMP, Twitch etc.).

Details​

GitHub - pannal/obs-hw-offload: A "soft capture card" / Headless NDI® OBS offloading with HW transcoding

A "soft capture card" / Headless NDI® OBS offloading with HW transcoding - pannal/obs-hw-offload

github.com

Building​

GitHub - pannal/obs-hw-offload: A "soft capture card" / Headless NDI® OBS offloading with HW transcoding

A "soft capture card" / Headless NDI® OBS offloading with HW transcoding - pannal/obs-hw-offload

github.com

Docker​

https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/pannal/obs-hw-offload/general

 

[panni]

This just came out of the Proof-of-Concept stage. Testers needed!

 

[peppi]

Would this be useful on AMD hardware?

 

[panni]

Sure! AMD cards should be compatible with VAAPI and AMD AMF encoders of FFmpeg. See the README of the project for a start.

 

[panni]

Hmm, is that a bot? Summarizing and linking again?

Anyhow: The main default tech has changed from GStreamer to FFmpeg with NDI patches, due to better compatibility. README has been overhauled and a generic "stream.sh" wrapper script is now included, making it much easier and straight-forward to use compared to before.