

- Quicksync intel stream settings how to#
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- Quicksync intel stream settings windows#
The quality of software encoding is better in general, but at 30mbit/s the difference is minimal in my experience, and the reduced CPU load more than makes up for it because it means that I can finally just stream GTA V to my HTPC with great performance. Only very dark areas cause some artifacts that make it obvious that the game is being streamed. It just works, and with the bandwidth set to 30mbit/s the quality good enough that I forget about and just play the game. I've played quite some Rocket League using Quicksync on my i5-2500K and my experience is a lot different from yours. Would getting a new GPU help so I could do NVIDIA hardware encoding? Is this usual? Am I missing something or doing something wrong? I was hoping to improve performance and bought a HDMI cable to plug into my motherboard port to enable the Intel GPU (as I couldn't enable Quicksync without it) but it seems to just be a waste.

Hardware decoding seems to make no difference from tests I've done. Spelunky becomes a complete mess along with freezes at title screen (although turning it off caused a freeze during the into sequence, but then recovers and works fine once you get into the game) Varies between games, but for example, Fallout 4 just became a blocky mess after playing for a few minutes and Rocket League just freezes at the title screen. That's if the game is even displaying at all and not crashing. Is Quicksync just not very good? When I turn it on, the graphics get so bad the game is unplayable. I doubt that the quality of the qs hevc encoder would beat x265, and considering that AVX2 adds about 30% to encoding speed and AVX-512 is expected to add a similar amount, one could argue, and I do, that it would be wise to wait until the Skylake Xeons are available and go with one of the cheaper ones (if history is any indication they should be available in the low 200 dollar range).īut my feeling is, and I think most would agree, that if you're going to encode something either for archival or delivery purposes, that you should be more worried about achieving the highest quality encode rather than the fastest encoding speed.I'm finding that just using software encoding is much more reliable and better quality than hardware.
Quicksync intel stream settings windows#
The negative for me is that in order to use quick sync you have to use Windows, as the handful of apps that use qs are Windows only (and I would say that the only app worth looking at even on Windows is Staxrip). Where quick sync becomes interesting is with Skylake cpu's, because that version of quick sync supports hevc encoding and a hybrid hw/sw mode for vp9 encoding. I have tried quick sync with sandy bridge, ivy bridge and haswell and even though it's faster than software based encoders, I still think you're better off using x264 for your avc encodes. If anyone is willing to help me through TeamViewer, that would be great. Part of the Intel graininess problem is probably because it doesn't use 2pass encoding. He encodes x265 since Nvidia supports it whereas Intel doesn't. I know GPU Encoding > CPU encoding but there must be some way to improve the quality because one of my friends has a gtx 980 Ti and he encodes through the NVENC Encoder and gets about the same FPS but his encodes look exactly the same as x265 encodes.
Quicksync intel stream settings how to#
I just wanna know how to make the QS Quality about the same as the normal h264 encode. The MeGUI h264 gives me about 50 FPS on First Pass and 18-23 FPS on Second Pass. I noticed that h264_QS(Quick Sync) doesn't look grainy when on high bitrates however, on low bitrates as I said is super grainy. I encode anime so even bitrates as low as 800 kbps look pretty neat and people prefer small encodes. I'm aiming for more FPS using GPU encoding however, the problem with Quick Sync is that it gives out really grainy encodes at low bitrates. So I spent yesterday trying to figure out QuickSync settings. First of all, I'm new here so sorry if I posted in the wrong section.
