Solutions to all the OBS Studio NVENC errors have been covered in this guide. One needs to understand the reason before applying any solution.

Higher bit-rates, resolutions and AV1 encoding are coming for RTX 40-series GPU owners, while streamers on older cards still get some tasty new hardware encoding features.

NVENC is just a hardware encoder block that has been on NV chips for a while, with incremental performance and codec support improvements on each new hardware platform. NVENC is very fast but the ...

OBS Studio, a popular video streaming software suite, has updated to version 28.1, bringing support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40-series Ada GPUs and hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding. ...

Announced this year at CES, Nvidia and OBS have teamed up to create a Geforce-Optimized version of OBS with an RTX Encoder that will allow professional-quality broadcasting from a single-PC setup.

Thanks to updates to OBS and NVENC, gamers can get the same quality from a single RTX-enabled PC as pro streamers get from 2-PC configurations.

NVIDIA's latest RTX 20-series GPUs feature the dedicated NVENC hardware encoder, so you'll get the best bang for your buck if you've already outfitted your streaming rig with one.

FFmpeg 6.0 enables AV1 encoding using hardware encoders such as QSV and NVENC, and includes improvements such as faster operation due to more efficient thread processing.

Most folks streaming these days are using the open-source Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) and its built-in x264 software encoder.

Neither hardware-encoder solution could match the (reference) x264-encoder. I downloaded the SDK and played around with the sample NVENC-application.