AMD Encoder Good Now?

December 22nd, 2022
  1. Personal

AMD's hardware x264 encoding for streamers has been notoriously unusable for years now.

The new 7x series of GPU's however have improved things slightly, and with the magical AMF options in the encoder settings within OBS, actual GOOD quality can be achieved:

HighMotionQualityBoostEnable=false EnableVBAQ=false RateControlPreanalysisEnable=0 BReferenceEnable=true AdaptiveMiniGOP=false RateControlSkipFrameEnable=false EnablePreAnalysis=true PASceneChangeDetectionEnable=false PAHighMotionQualityBoostMode=1 PATemporalAQMode=1 PAFrameSadEnable=true HalfPixel=True QuarterPixel=True DeBlockingFilter=True FillerDataEnable=True

Once Twitch et al support AV1, this will get us by. Hallelujah,