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I'll be very interested to see what happens to OBS now that Nvidia is directly competing with them with Nvidia Broadcast: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-broadcast-a...

While it's community supported (though only at 2.5k/mo) I highly suspect that NB is going to outperform OBS in the coming years, just given the market Nvidia is trying to capture. Most youtubers / streamers don't need the full configuration capabilities of OBS, but rather just want something that works out of the box with the basic nice to haves (overlays, noise cancellation, basic text compositing / donation integrations).

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Isn't nvidia broadcast just some tools that plug into your existing streaming software?

>NVIDIA Broadcast is a universal plugin that works with most popular live streaming, voice chat and video conferencing apps. It’s supported on any NVIDIA GeForce RTX, TITAN RTX or Quadro RTX GPU, using their dedicated Tensor Core AI processors to help the app’s AI networks run in real-time, right alongside your games.

Can't you describe any software as 'just some tools'? If the tools do what you want and achieve the same things as OBS then isn't that what you want?

It's a bit of both. It can configure itself to be a virtual camera (similar to OBS), which could then be consumed by OBS. It also has built in features for directly streaming to twitch/youtube/etc and skipping OBS entirely. Likely an embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy on their part.

> It also has built in features for directly streaming to twitch/youtube/etc and skipping OBS entirely.

This is not true lol

Sorry, you're correct. The stream to twitch/youtube/etc is part of Nvidia's Geforce experience, which Nvidia Broadcast can tie into.

> It can configure itself to be a virtual camera (similar to OBS) [...]

OBS can be used as a virtual camera? I assume not out of the box but only with some third party software/plugin, right?

There was a plugin available for a few years now, but as of this release (Version 26.0) there is official support for it out of the box

OBS is worlds ahead - Nvidia only wins if they somehow cripple OBS on Nvidia graphics

I’ve had quality issues with NVENC on OBS at 4K that went away if I either used cpu encoding in OBS or used NVENC with Shadowplay. I don’t know what caused this (I have a 1080) but it was super frustrating

Twitch also has its own broadcasting tool it is pushing.

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