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layout: default
category: "OBS"
title: "High Quality Streaming with Intel® QSV (in OBS Studio)"
comments: true
date: "2022-03-06"
---

{% capture content %}A new contender in the high quality streaming field has appeared: Intel! Their current generation of encoder hardware is capable of matching (and sometimes exceeding) the <i>fast</i> preset in x264, while exceeding real-time speeds at that quality. This makes Intel a good alternative to NVIDIA Turing/Ampere GPUs for budget builds, and as such makes Dual-PC streaming far more affordable.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %}

{% include blocks/heading.liquid level=1 content="Setting up QuickSync (for Streaming)" %}

{% capture content %}At the moment, the only Intel encoder available is the built-in QuickSync H.264 encoder maintained by Intel and the OBS Project team. Using the FFmpeg variant does not improve quality, so it is enough to use the built-in encoder for streaming. Simply select <i>QuickSync H.264</i> and apply the settings shown below.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %}

{% capture content %}
<thead><tr>
	<th width="20%">GPU</th>
	<th>UHD Graphics 730, 750, 770</th>
</tr></thead>
<tr>
	<td>Target Usage</td>
	<td colspan=65535>veryslow</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>Profile</td>
	<td colspan=65535>high</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>Rate Control</td>
	<td colspan=65535>LA_CBR</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>Latency</td>
	<td colspan=65535>normal</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>B Frames</td>
	<td colspan=65535>3</td>
</tr>
{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/table.liquid content=content caption="Ideal settings" %}