Steam Client Beta Brings NVIDIA NVENC Encoding, Steam Controller Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam Client Beta Brings NVIDIA NVENC Encoding, Steam Controller Improvements

Valve released a rather interesting Steam client beta update yesterday with a number of improvements...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Stem-Client-Beta-9Feb-2016

[xeekei]

Hopefully VCE and QuickSync will also be supported.

[tuke81]

Hmm does it use NvFBCOpenGL? I know it is a private api but at least on windows side steam uses NvFBC with nvenc.

[eydee]

And the video capture interface is still not exposed for users...

[roboman2444]

It would be great if VALVE helped push patches in their video capture and encoding code to FFMPEG. The nvenc code is a little lacking.

[zimano]

I was really impressed with the speed I got encoding to x265 using ffmpeg using nvenc, getting something like 100fps. Agreed though, compared to my cpu (which does about 2.5fps) it was lacking, but not as much as I thought it would. I'd say it's definitely good enough for streaming games.

[Passso]

I was really impressed with the speed I got encoding to x265 using ffmpeg using nvenc, getting something like 100fps. Agreed though, compared to my cpu (which does about 2.5fps) it was lacking, but not as much as I thought it would. I'd say it's definitely good enough for streaming games.

Did anyone managed to make NVENC work with Steam for streaming?
If so may I ask your proc / gc?
I read that installing CUDA was needed, is it the case?

Valve put the checkbox a few month ago without having the support, so I tried for hours without any result lol

I really hope I can play on my TV without "Slow encode" in most games