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Article #694621Re: Lets talk about gamestreaming
From: Werner Punz
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:03
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:03
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Am 28.10.15 um 10:48 schrieb Toby Newman: > On 2015-10-27, Werner Punz <we...@gmx.at> wrote: >> Am 25.10.15 um 07:51 schrieb Toby Newman: >> >>> I tried Steam In-home streaming earlier in the year. >>> Server was a moderately powerful Win7 PC, client was Fedora linux, >>> infrastructure was GigE ethernet. >>> >>> I found that the overhead of encoding the video cost about 10fps on my >>> host PC, and there was a big detriment to video quality. I gave up on >>> the idea and ran HDMI through a CAT-5 adapter instead. >>> >> Did you use hardware encoding? > > I just used Steam defaults. > Steam defaults is to my knowledge software encoding, so if you dont have a processor with Quicksync you tax the processor that way big time. You can turn on hardware encoding which pushes the encoding to the graphics card. This should result in a higher framerate in many cases.
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