Hardware Recommendations

CPU Resources

• Ensure your encoding CPU / GPU can handle your encoding settings.
• HD streams and high bit-rate streams take significantly more CPU and GPU resources to capture and encode.
• If your streams are choppy, pause and resume, exhibit encoding artifacts, are dropping frames or appear to be playing back in a lower than expected frame rate, these can all be signs that your CPU is not able to keep up with the live video encoding.
• Reducing the input resolution size and or reducing your stream output resolution and bit-rate can fix these issues.
• Most encoders have an indicator to show you how much of your available resources you are using. Pay attention to this and lower your settings accordingly if it shows you are nearing the maximum resources available.
• Low frame rate streams look very bad. Unless you have extremely low motion content like static slide images, often it would be better to stream full frame rate at a reduced resolution, for example 640x360 at 30fps vs 720HD but only being able to stream at 12 frames per second.