• mormund@feddit.org
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      4 months ago

      It is literally just Nvidia Encoder. So hardware encoding on Nvidia GPUs. What codes are supported depends on the GPU

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          A codec is a module that encodes and decodes (COder/DECoder…CoDec) information into a format. That format might be H.264 or VP9 or whatever.

          So yes. NvEnc is a codec, or at least, it is when partnered with the hardware decoding also. It’s a codec for multiple formats.

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      4 months ago

      No idea something GPU related I think. But AV1 is the codec, which is free and performant and high resolution.