diff --git a/_about/me.html b/_about/me.html index 09b9e36..c158532 100644 --- a/_about/me.html +++ b/_about/me.html @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ title: "About Me" layout: default comments: false +date: "2022-01-12" --- {% capture content %}Hey, I’m the guy referred to as “Xaymar” – also known by the real name Michael Fabian Dirks. I’ve been enjoying software development for a long time now, it’s both my hobby and my job, and i love it. I’m probably a great example when it comes to “Love your job and you’ll never work a day in your life”, because so far it has only felt like work once.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %} diff --git a/_about/privacy.html b/_about/privacy.html index 39adc19..7a394f8 100644 --- a/_about/privacy.html +++ b/_about/privacy.html @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ title: "Privacy Policy" layout: default comments: false +date: "2022-01-12" --- {% include blocks/heading.liquid level=2 content="Who we are" %} diff --git a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording.html b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording.html index 28d28ca..a840199 100644 --- a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording.html +++ b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording.html @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ title: "High Quality Recording (in OBS® Studio)" comments: true redirect_from: - /guides/high-quality-recordings/ +date: "2022-01-13" --- {% capture content %}Ever since publishing the guide on how to achieve the {% include inline/link.liquid url="https://www.xaymar.com/guides/obs/high-quality-streaming/nvenc/" content="best possible NVIDIA NVENC quality with FFmpeg 4.3.x and below" %}, people repeatedly ask me what the best possible recording settings are. So today, as a Christmas present, let me answer this question to the best of my knowledge and help all of you achieve a quality you’ve never seen before.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %} diff --git a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/amf.html b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/amf.html index c545068..bc6c6bb 100644 --- a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/amf.html +++ b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/amf.html @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ layout: default category: "OBS" title: "High Quality Recordings with AMD AMF (in OBS® Studio)" comments: true +date: "2022-01-13" --- {% capture content %}For the unfortunate souls who bought an AMD GPU on the belief that AMD can fix their encoder via Drivers, unfortunately "Fine Wine™" only goes so far. AMDs encoder lacks features that other vendors had for years, and simply do not hold a candle to Intels and NVIDIAs encoder. Still, you're not quite out of luck, as you still have NV12 recording as an option, which limits you to High or Acceptable Quality.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %} diff --git a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/nvenc.html b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/nvenc.html index 4c08d20..7593689 100644 --- a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/nvenc.html +++ b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/nvenc.html @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ layout: default category: "OBS" title: "High Quality Recordings with NVIDIA NVENC (in OBS® Studio)" comments: true +date: "2022-02-18" --- {% capture content %}With {% include inline/link.liquid url="https://streamfx.xaymar.com/" content="StreamFX" %}'s NVENC you can achieve the quality targets in one of two ways: Constant Quantization Parameters (CQP) or Variable Bitrate with Constant Quality (VBR-CQ). Both have their own advantages and downsides, and it depends entirely on your requirements which one you should use. Modern {% include inline/link.liquid url="https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new" content="NVIDIA GPUs (Pascal and newer)" %} also all support 4:4:4 and 4:2:0 encoding at most of the quality levels shown here.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %} diff --git a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/prores.html b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/prores.html index e7cc730..3a2437b 100644 --- a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/prores.html +++ b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/prores.html @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ layout: default category: "OBS" title: "High Quality Recordings with ProRES (in OBS® Studio)" comments: true +date: "2022-01-13" --- {% capture content %}ProRes only supports RGB and I444 and requires next to no additional setup, all you need to do is adjust the profile setting according to the table below. Due to there being no further profiles to support 4:4:4 at lower quality, 4:2:2 subsampling is used. This halves the horizontal chroma samples, while keeping the vertical chroma samples in tact – not exactly ideal for text and other high contrast content.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %} diff --git a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/qsv.html b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/qsv.html index d697fcc..d0ac645 100644 --- a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/qsv.html +++ b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/qsv.html @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ layout: default category: "OBS" title: "High Quality Recordings with Intel QSV (in OBS® Studio)" comments: true +date: "2022-01-13" --- diff --git a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/x264.html b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/x264.html index e4fc287..cb6960b 100644 --- a/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/x264.html +++ b/_guides/obs/high-quality-recording/x264.html @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ layout: default category: "OBS" title: "High Quality Recordings with x264 (in OBS® Studio)" comments: true +date: "2022-01-19" --- {% capture content %}The x264 encoder supports both 4:4:4 as well as 4:2:0, as long as the underlying hardware is fast enough to handle it. It also has two different ways to reach each quality level: Constant Quantization Parameter (CQP) and Constant Rate Factor (CRF). Unfortunately OBS Studio only offers the latter, so for now we are stuck with that. With a single-PC setup, 4:4:4 recording using CRF will be very expensive. You might have to lower the preset used in order to maintain reasonable performance in game and encodes.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %} diff --git a/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming.html b/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming.html index efe81f1..7a2e0db 100644 --- a/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming.html +++ b/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming.html @@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ layout: default category: "OBS" title: "High Quality Streaming (in OBS® Studio)" comments: true +date: "2022-03-06" --- diff --git a/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming/nvenc.html b/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming/nvenc.html index 75e19cb..4dee17d 100644 --- a/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming/nvenc.html +++ b/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming/nvenc.html @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ title: "High Quality Streaming with NVIDIA® NVENC (in OBS® Studio)" comments: true redirect_from: - /guides/obs/high-quality-streaming-nvenc/ +date: "2022-02-18" --- {% capture content %}Streaming with more than one PC has been the leader in H.264 encoding for years, but NVIDIAs Turing and Ampere generation has put a significant dent into that lead. The new generation of GPUs with the brand new encoder brought comparable quality x264 medium – if you can find a GPU that is. Let’s take a look at what’s needed to set up your stream for massively improved quality.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %} diff --git a/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming/qsv.html b/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming/qsv.html index 79ae4dc..832e25e 100644 --- a/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming/qsv.html +++ b/_guides/obs/high-quality-streaming/qsv.html @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ 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 fast 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 %} diff --git a/_projects/obs/ocean-blue.html b/_projects/obs/ocean-blue.html index affc334..75d94a3 100644 --- a/_projects/obs/ocean-blue.html +++ b/_projects/obs/ocean-blue.html @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ layout: default title: "Ocean Blue, an eye friendly OBS Studio Theme" comments: false +date: "2022-02-25" --- {% capture content %}Ocean Blue is a dark mode theme for OBS Studio with focus on visibility and clear visual grouping. I wanted to avoid making another gray or black theme, and tested a lot of different colors, finally ending up with a color that I can only describe as "Ocean Blue". This wasn't the only thing that needed to be different, I wanted something that set itself apart from other themes.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %} diff --git a/_projects/obs/streamfx.html b/_projects/obs/streamfx.html index 2487555..5e7b67b 100644 --- a/_projects/obs/streamfx.html +++ b/_projects/obs/streamfx.html @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ layout: default title: "StreamFX (for OBS® Studio)" comments: false +date: "2022-02-25" --- {% include blocks/media.liquid type="image" url="projects/obs/streamfx/logo.svg" float="right" height="80px" %}{% capture content %}StreamFX is the premier plugin to OBS® Studio to take your stream or recording to the next level! Whether it is crafting advanced scene setups, recording in intermediate formats, bringing out a little bit of extra quality from encoders, StreamFX has everything you need. Bring your content creation to the future, no matter if you are a Power User or End User.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %} diff --git a/_projects/voicefx.html b/_projects/voicefx.html index 3e360cb..560f327 100644 --- a/_projects/voicefx.html +++ b/_projects/voicefx.html @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ layout: default title: "VoiceFX" comments: false +date: "2022-02-25" --- {% capture content %}Remove any kinds of noise from your recordings in post, with VoiceFX's noise removal based on the powerful NVIDIA Broadcast technology! Whether it is keyboard clacking, a vacuum, construction noise, or just ambient noise, VoiceFX can help restore just your own voice1. Available as both a VST2.x and a VST3.x plugin compatible with many VST hosts2.{% endcapture %}{% include blocks/paragraph.liquid content=content %}