So i was tired (Still am) About the situation with obs-studio and my AMD gpu. So i asked an LLM, if it could come up with specific technical reasons and later asked it too add dates so we (the user) can see for how long theyve actually had the open-source data too fix all the problems. Fast TLDR (Too save eye-ball-time)
What NVIDIA Has That AMD Simply Doesn’t Offer in OBS
For completeness, here is a list of NVENC features available in OBS that have no functional AMD AMF equivalent:
Feature
NVENC in OBS
AMF in OBS
True two-pass encoding
Functional
Non-functional
Look-ahead / pre-analysis
Functional
Non-functional
Psychovisual AQ (spatial)
Functional
Missing
Psychovisual AQ (temporal)
Functional
Missing
B-frame support (H.264)
Since RTX 20xx
Broken on some gens
B-pyramid structure
Functional
Missing
Weighted prediction
Functional
Missing
True CBR with filler data
Functional
Broken
VBR with bitrate ceiling
Functional
Overshoots
Dynamic bitrate reconfiguration
Sub-frame
Requires full re-init
HDR tonemapping pipeline
Functional
Missing
10-bit H.265 encoding
Functional
Unreliable
AV1 CRF mode
Functional
Missing
AV1 true CBR
Functional
Broken
Multi-GPU encode offload
Functional
Missing
Scene switch IDR (immediate)
Synchronous
Asynchronous/late
GPU zero-copy capture→encode
Functional
Copy required on some configs
Replay buffer integrity
Reliable
Corrupted files reported
Linux DMABuf import
Functional
Missing in AMF Linux
AV1 on Linux (VA-API)
Via NVENC/NVDec
Not implemented in OBS
The Timeline Nobody Wants to Talk About — AMD Went Open First, and OBS Still Didn’t Fix It
This is perhaps the most damning section of this entire document, and it is the one most conspicuously absent from every mainstream discussion of the AMD/OBS problem.
The common narrative is that AMD’s closed software ecosystem is the root of OBS’s AMD failures. That narrative is only partially true — and it becomes increasingly dishonest the more carefully you look at the dates.
This is the kind-of-work LLMs should be used for IMO. Always ask for dates after its research and add it too the document. Appreciate it, if you made it this far…
If there isn’t anyone interested in implementing it, noone’s doing it. That’s how open source works.
Besides that, one big reason all this sfuff is implemented on the nvidia side to begin with is because nvidia was actually collaborating. Meanwhile AMD has not and the current amf functionality was implemented by one dude in their free time.
Ask your LLM what “free time” means.
AMD can’t even decide whether or not they are deprecating their drivers.
Im pretty sure obs-studio wont even take patches, someone somewhere must have done some work on it. Maybe even done much more than that, but was never taken seriously, (By design) that my take on it at least.
Mesa should have had full acceleration years ago, yet dont even work a quarter as bad as the proprietary AMD driver. Mesa matured in approx. 4 years fully. Obs-studio has had anywhere between 9-12 years too mature.
Heck even simplescreenrecorder is better (if that still exists)
Based on mesa development. Mesa takes longer too develop and is also more tran 10x as hard too develop for, even with documentation. Which obs-studio already has. What else would it be based on??
Idc. What it “just supports™. The GPU acceleration is not there. You cant play tripple A games fluently without hiccups even on VAAPI, at 4K or higher, so whats your point??
…??? The hell are you talking about. VAAPI is the GPU acceleration.
Yeah and AMD contributes to Mesa, that’s my whole point
Weird cause I do it every day.
Also:
This by the way is also another point towards straight up bullshit.
First of all VAAPI codecs don’t need “implementation” in OBS, that’s the entire point of VAAPI. And secondly:
VAAPI is a plugin for OBS, and it doesnt work proplerly. No more words from you thanks. Prove your points with actual videos. Ive seen enough of your wordings. Send a link with proof of VAAPI tripple A usage on amd hardware or go away with all your actual-nvidia-supporter stuff. If i have 15K render load with 40FPS proof, then surely you have proof aswell.
Idc about your screenshots on level1missquoters. Most users here miss-quote and do all kind of stuff. Show video proof or get the hell out of my thread.
idc what it is. Show proof or go away and dont reply again unless you have proof. Not interested in a debate with you or anyone. Interested in proof that so called LLM cant provide. So go do it, im waiting anxiously for your video-proof. Until then dont reply here.
That screenshot was not meant to excite anyone, it was to show that AV1 via VAAPI is indeed available, something that apparently you were not capable of checking on your own.
What does that even mean
How does any of this have to do with… anything, literally.
Also please list them?
Feel free to point out specifics, but I don’t see anything in what I said being untrue.
LLMs are a tool, but you are clearly not one to wield it.
You keep giving off personal attacks. TLDR needed asap. I have proof youre not willing. Im asking proof, youre not willing. So not much more to say, other than go away, until you have video proof. Or are you payed by obs-studio devs or something??
Functional
Non-functional
Broken on some gens
