Can someone finally make something clear to me? :) (HEVC)

[Fr0zen]

Hi everyone,Both in moonlight and in the steamlink app the HEVC mode is off as default.What does it do? And is it better to keep on or off?

My local network is perfect and everything runs wired. So my question is, would i get better performance with HEVC on or off?

GPU: RTX 2080TI

Device streamed to: Nvidia Shield Pro

[Xjph]

HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding, aka H.265) is a newer video compression that you can use for the stream instead of the default AVC (Advanced Video Coding. aka H.264).

HEVC will generally give you better quality at low bitrates compared to AVC, but is typically a bit more work to encode, and not as well supported. If you have hardware at both ends that support it though it will likely be the better choice, but not every device is going to be able to handle it, hence the choice, with it defaulting to off as the safer option.

In your case, the 2080 ti does have a hardware HEVC encoder, and the Nvidia Shield can decode it no problem, so turning it on is likely the better option in your case.

[_I_]

if you have an igpu (intel uhd or ryzen vega), you can set that to do the encoding and will not impact gaming fps at all

[Abu]

Originally posted by _I_:

if you have an igpu (intel uhd or ryzen vega), you can set that to do the encoding and will not impact gaming fps at all

While this is true, unfortunately many people (myself included) with a separate Intel igpu are unable to do this through the steam link app on Nvidia shield pro for reasons not well understood. Are you using this currently? Any insight is appreciated!!!

[_I_]

its a setting on the host pc, not link app

[CliqueXion]

Does the rx 6700 xt have this encoder?

[_I_]

maybe, not all of the amd gpus support hardware encoding

if its enabled and gpu does not support it, it will use cpu to encode instead

[Puff Nalgui]

Originally posted by CliqueXion:

Does the rx 6700 xt have this encoder?

All RX6000s except the 6500 support it without any problem.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/radeon-for-creators/video-editing.html