Software Vs Hardware Encoding Premiere Pro. Wirecast has two encoding plans. A hardware encoder is a physical processing tool built for one job to convert your stream or broadcast into an appropriate format.
But know that hardware encoding is inferior quality to software sometimes very significantly. All Discussions General Discussion Topic Details. All Intel CPUs with iGPUs since 2011 have a feature called Quick Sync which allows H264 and now H265 encoding in hardware instead of in software which is much slower.
Premiere Pro has supported H264H265 hardware encoding for a long time but it was limited to Intel CPUs that supported Quicksync.
Setting it to Software Encoding will disable hardware encoding and Adobe Premiere Pro wont use Intel Quick Sync to encode the media this may increase the rendering time. The IGPU on your desktop is too old and didnt come with the chip. It would be really interesting to know if running hardwaresoftware encoding made a difference in delay on your nvida card. But know that hardware encoding is inferior quality to software sometimes very significantly.