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This quite clearly shows the cost of Apple preferring to build a software ecosystem moat, than using the Vulkan API which every other OS supports. Vulkan support was introduced in OBS Studio 25.0 in March 2020, 5.5 years ago.
now all macOS streamers need is games!
> Metal takes Direct3D's object-oriented approach one step further by combining it with the more "verbal" API design common in Objective-C and Swift in an attempt to provide a more intuitive and easier API for app developers to use (and not just game developers) and to further motivate those to integrate more 3D and general GPU functionality into their apps. slightly off-topic perhaps, but i find it amazing that an o…
No, it doesn't. You won't find it used much if at all at these levels of the OS. Once you get past cocoa and friends it's restricted subsets of C++ (IOKit for example)
Was considering building a streaming rig around a Mac Mini. I wonder if with these performance enhancements, that will work for me?
Highly depends on what you're streaming. If you stream arcade 2D games of the past, or software development, it should be perfectly fine. AAA titles with newer graphics, well, you can always send a capture the PC with the nvidia card's screen through a capture card. Back in my days of streaming, macOS was no option, cca. 2017. Today I'd do it with any M processor mac without a second thought.
Worked reasonably well (you can send camera/VTuber output and captured video from game and any overlays separately, or just use the setup in a similar way to a capture card and run ONLY the game on the gaming PC and everything else on the Mac), but added some complexity to it all.
A beefy Nvidia GPU would make that setup not necessary, unless you want to directly play games on the Mac.
This quite clearly shows the cost of Apple preferring to build a software ecosystem moat, than using the Vulkan API which every other OS supports. Vulkan support was introduced in OBS Studio 25.0 in March 2020, 5.5 years ago.
Metal does pre date Vulkan, and some people consider it easier to use.
Great article. The description of how they handle shaders is just bonkers to me. Is that really what you’d have to go through to have a working system with plugin shaders from 3rd parties on multiple backends? Or is mostly the result of time and trying to keep backwards compatibility with existing plugins? Telling external devs “Write a copy in every shader language” would certainly be easier for the core team but th…
Transpiling shaders is what most game engines have done for a decade now. Everybody thinks it's stupid in that field as well, but there is no viable alternative.
This quite clearly shows the cost of Apple preferring to build a software ecosystem moat, than using the Vulkan API which every other OS supports. Vulkan support was introduced in OBS Studio 25.0 in March 2020, 5.5 years ago.
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Looks neat but seems like a complete hassle to get up and running and maintain, unless if your goal is to learn how screen recorders work.
What? The link says that you can install it from flathub ( https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder ) so you just have to click install and then record. Since its in flathub its also available in many distros "app store"
If you are - recording your screen but not streaming - you are not customizing what goes into your screen Then use something else. GPU screen recorder has a lower overhead and produces much smoother recordings: https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/
Does anyone know if AMD 8845HS with 780M graphics (running fedora) can into this? Ideally very low system resources used, I only have 16GB RAM, also ideally very little storage space used, one or two frames per second is enough, ideally should compress even more if nothing has changed in the screen for a while, also ideally should create a new file every eight hours or so.
Lower framerate doesn't really decrease video size because of how videos work, but you can set bitrate quality for the recorded video to reduce the video quality a bit to decrease the size.
This quite clearly shows the cost of Apple preferring to build a software ecosystem moat, than using the Vulkan API which every other OS supports. Vulkan support was introduced in OBS Studio 25.0 in March 2020, 5.5 years ago.
Metal does pre date Vulkan, and some people consider it easier to use.