There are several applications that allow us to broadcast live whatever we want, be it our PC or another device, but currently none can surpass OBS, since it is a free, simple and reliable solution that has managed to make a name for itself. great reputation among users. Now they want to make things easier for banners so that they can deliver greater quality in their live performances, and that is Observations has implemented a series of improvements, although they only work with NVIDIA graphics.
Observations is a lightweight and free application that allows us to link a recording system to our account. Tic or other platforms, allowing us to broadcast live or record practically anything we want. Thanks to its minimalist design, it is an excellent solution for those who want to start, but it also has a series of advanced functions that allow even the most veteran to adjust all the necessary parameters to offer a live broadcast with the highest possible quality, and now, they have introduced a new feature, Improved streaming on Twitch
Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting, what is it and what are its benefits
Many times we could think that a program has enough functions to personalize our experience to the maximum, but on the contrary, OBS has not yet reached the limit of things it can offer, and it is presenting a new technology to make things much easier for Les banners who want to offer the best possible quality. In this case, this new technology has a very simple objective but one that many have been asking for for some time, the ability to automatically choose the video quality based on the end user’s connection.
To put it simply, it allows the banners set a single quality for your live, for example by offering 4K quality, but this does not mean that all users must watch the live in this quality, but rather that there is an automatic configuration that will allow users to change the quality depending on their connection. In other words, the person broadcasting sets a single quality, but the program then encodes the broadcast so that it can be seen in other qualities than the quality. banner
This implies that, for people who have a worse connection, the live will not be configured in 4K, but will automatically reach 480p and 30 FPS, but obviously it will be possible to change it without the person broadcasting having to adjust the broadcast quality. . As explained from Tic and of Observations,
For now it will only reach NVIDIA graphics, but they do not rule out that they will reach those of other manufacturers
As we indicated at the beginning, the biggest problem with this new feature is Observations This only works on cards chart of NVIDIA, and this obviously depends on the power of our GPU, since it is the one that does the entire encoding process of each of the broadcast qualities. As you can imagine, the main reason why they only reach NVIDIA graphics at the moment is due to the fact that they represent a large majority in the configurations used by the banners, since this company’s video cards offer greater encoding power.
Although it’s not all bad news, since Twitch and OBS have indicated that they do not rule out this feature reaching GPUs from other manufacturers, but at the same time, they have also indicated that it is not one of their priorities.
