📖 Terminology

Hardware Encoding

Using dedicated hardware (GPU/NPU) to encode video. Faster than software encoding but lower efficiency. Examples: NVENC, AMD VCE, Apple VideoToolbox.

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Using dedicated hardware (GPU/NPU) to encode video. Faster than software encoding but lower efficiency. Examples: NVENC, AMD VCE, Apple VideoToolbox.