Greetings,
I am new here, and I don't know much tech stuff when it comes to computers, so please forgive my ignorance. I have a mid-2012 Mac Pro (specs below) that I use primarily as an audio workstation. However, in light of the current economical crisis I have picked up some other work that involves streaming video into a private server in real time. I have tried unsuccessfully to do so with both OBS and Ecamm Live. After asking a tech-inclined friend, he told me that upgrading the video card should get me past the issue, but I had someone who knows both OBs and Ecamm tell me otherwise. He said:
"A GPU upgrade is unlikely going to help you. Both OBS and Ecamm Live are designed to run on machines that have hardware-accelerated video encoding. This is basically a special chip in the video card of all Macs (except Mac Pros) that can encode H2.64 video in real time."
I had one person tell me that a radeon rx 580 8gb graphics card would work, and other person tell me that even those do not encode H2.64 in real time. I have no idea what is true or untrue, and I don't even know what my options really are. I have two weeks to figure this all out, and I'm at a loss. Can anyone help me make sense of my options? I'd be very grateful for any help. And please remember that I know very little about these matters, so give it to me in plain speak! Thank you in advance.
- J.B.
SPECS:
Mid-2012 Mac Pro
Processor: 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Startup: SSD
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
I am new here, and I don't know much tech stuff when it comes to computers, so please forgive my ignorance. I have a mid-2012 Mac Pro (specs below) that I use primarily as an audio workstation. However, in light of the current economical crisis I have picked up some other work that involves streaming video into a private server in real time. I have tried unsuccessfully to do so with both OBS and Ecamm Live. After asking a tech-inclined friend, he told me that upgrading the video card should get me past the issue, but I had someone who knows both OBs and Ecamm tell me otherwise. He said:
"A GPU upgrade is unlikely going to help you. Both OBS and Ecamm Live are designed to run on machines that have hardware-accelerated video encoding. This is basically a special chip in the video card of all Macs (except Mac Pros) that can encode H2.64 video in real time."
I had one person tell me that a radeon rx 580 8gb graphics card would work, and other person tell me that even those do not encode H2.64 in real time. I have no idea what is true or untrue, and I don't even know what my options really are. I have two weeks to figure this all out, and I'm at a loss. Can anyone help me make sense of my options? I'd be very grateful for any help. And please remember that I know very little about these matters, so give it to me in plain speak! Thank you in advance.
- J.B.
SPECS:
Mid-2012 Mac Pro
Processor: 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Startup: SSD
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
