Comment by connorbrinton
5 days ago
100% agree on the better video hardware. I found out this weekend the Raspberry Pi 5 removes the dedicated video encoder present on the Pi 4B. I was getting 2-3 fps in OBS, which makes it unusable for my application. Any mini PC would do much better with dedicated encode capabilities.
To be fair, I haven't messed around with video encoding settings yet. I've seen claims the Pi 5 can do 1080p60 with 50% of the CPU. I could trade off quality for faster encoding, but with a mini PC I could get high quality encoding at real-time speeds.
I'm feeling some buyer's remorse with the Pi 5 right now...
I believe the Pi 5 dropped the hardware encoder for H.264 only, with the claim that the CPU was fast enough to brute force it (sure...). It does have accelerated HEVC, so OBS should be able to handle that.