Nvidia Shadowplay Encoder

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Nvidia shadowplay encoder. Nvidia shadowplay supports streaming to facebook live twitch and youtube live complete with overlays just like with a webcam. It leverages the hardware encoder that is in nvidia s gpus. It also has the ability to do streaming but i m going to be focusing on the local recording feature for today. In this video im gonna show you guys how to enable nvidia shadowplay for gt 1030.

Nvidia shadowplay is built into the geforce experience which is an optional but default component of the nvidia drivers. It s also super easy to use having the h 264 encoder built directly into geforce gtx 600 and 700 series gpus. How to use nvidia nvenc encoder hevc vs h264. I hope this has helped some of you understand how shadowplay works a little.

And last but not least there are currently also a few hardware encoders available. Nvidia gpus contain one or more hardware based decoder and encoder s separate from the cuda cores which provides fully accelerated hardware based video decoding and encoding for several popular codecs. With decoding encoding offloaded the graphics engine and the cpu are free for other operations. Shadowplay has two user configurable modes.

For the best performance you want to use a nvidia capture method nvfbc or nvifr with the nvenc encoder cough shadowplay cough you can use a graphics api for frame capture and encode with nvenc this is what obs does or capture with nvfbc nvifr and encode using the cpu although this kinda defeats the purpose. Since it uses nvidia s hardware video encoder. This means that your gpu can operate normally regardless of whether you use this region to stream or record. It works as game recording software to manually record gameplay videos for as long as you want all at up to 8k hdr at 30 frames per second or up to 4k hdr at 60 frames per second.

Nvenc is nvidia s encoder. Just hit a hotkey to save the last 30 seconds of gameplay to your hard drive or share to youtube or facebook. Shadowplay on the other hand allows you to use your latest nvidia gpu to do the encoding in this case nvidia notes that you may loose up to 15 of your gpu power. Gpu hardware accelerator engines for video decoding referred to as nvdec and video encoding.

Geforce shadowplay is a high performance fast and free gameplay capturing tool that s available exclusively to geforce customers. Shadowplay s dvr style instant replay mode already recorded it.