Twitch’s Enhanced Broadcasting Now Available In OBS, NVIDIA GeForce 900 & Above GPU Support

Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting, a feature designed to enhance encoding, is now available with the newest OBS 30.2 RC1 version, supporting a wide range of NVIDIA GPUs.

Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting was a feature unveiled by NVIDIA for its GeForce platform at CES 2024, which is in collaboration with the famous streaming platform OBS.

It is a medium for streamers to ensure that their viewers get the best quality, depending on their network connection and hardware capabilities. The announcement by NVIDIA saw huge popularity among streamers since now their audience would have a more engaging experience that would be vital for the community's success.

Enhanced Broadcasting provides two critical capabilities to streamers. First, it will create multiple encodings of your stream using dedicated encoder resources in your GPU. Having multiple encodes allows the video encoding to occur on your streaming device at multiple resolutions.

Thanks to the dedicated encoders on NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, this will result in a higher quality stream and reduced latency for all resolutions without impacting your streaming experience. Second, this capability will provide an automatic configuration option for OBS that will optimize your settings based upon the processing power of your computer and your upload bandwidth.

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Enhanced Broadcasting creates multiple versions of your stream, all with different resolutions, using your GPU's dedicated encoder resources. Depending on their internet quality, viewers will get the optimal stream. For those who are familiar with the streaming process, they might have heard about the term "transcoding," and that is exactly what is happening with Twitch's Enhanced Broadcasting. Utilizing NVIDIA's NVENC, the onboard GPU lowers the bitrate and resolution with each stream version.

Another interesting thing about Enhanced Broadcasting is that it allows streamers to get the optimal streaming settings credits to a server-side algorithm, eliminating the need for a "trial and error" process. It also makes it possible for everyone, even those who are unaware of the technical stuff, to get into the streaming process.

The newest OBS 30.2 RC1 release now brings Enhanced Broadcasting to NVIDIA's GeForce 900 series or later GPUs, further fueling the feature's adoption. Right now, Enhanced Broadcasting is still in its beta phases, and given that it came into existence with NVIDIA's collaboration, Team Green's GPUs are being prioritized for now. We hope the feature becomes accessible for everyone, and there is a high chance it will be.

News Source: Jacob Freeman