

Hardware encoders (except the NVIDIA NVENC H.264) are generally recommended for local recordings, but not streaming.

This is why “veryfast” is recommended as the best balance between quality and performance.

All other presets after 3rd have a big difference in performance but almost have not any difference in quality. “ultrafast” has the best performance and worst quality, and “placebo” has the worst performance(very high load of the processor) and best quality.īut in fact, only the first 3 are useful for streaming purposes and have a significant difference in quality. They are arranged in ascending order of quality and descending of performance, i.e. But keep in mind what x264 is the most processor-intensive encoder and you need a good processor to use x264 without lags in processor-intensive games.

We also recommend you read tutorials with specific instructions for your live streaming video platform: This streaming guide is about general OBS settings. In this tutorial we’ll tell you about OBS settings and features, which are you need to know to perform your live streams.
