(02-10-2014, 11:25 AM)delroth Wrote: Uhhh... why would that be unlikely to change? It would be an obvious improvement to streaming performance. And a way for NV/AMD to sell more of their latest generations of GPUs.Take your pick:
a) They already paid to use x264
b) x264 is faster when used with equivalent settings (especially if the GPU is already in use, bandwidth is the typical bottleneck)
c) x264 produces better quality
d) The x264 API allows for many things the GPU encoders don't support, particularly intra-refresh
