Use cases for hard/soft transcoding

[gray_flhxs]

I have toyed with the software and hardware transcoding setting in Channels a few times. I leave it on software as it is 2-3 faster than hardware transcoding. What is the use case for each? I know I am missing something here. Thanks

[Rwbisme]

This explains it very well.

What is hardware video transcoding?

Summary Video decoding converts compressed data into a raw image with pixel-by-pixel color values. Video encoding takes a raw image and converts it into a compressed format Video transcoding converts from one compressed format to another, by first decoding then re-encoding Transcoding is used primarily when watching away from home, to compress the video so it uses up less bandwidth Video compression Video is transmitted using different codecs, which define how the pixel data is…

[gray_flhxs]

That works for me. Thank you!

[hal9000]

Hardware transcoding can sometimes produce suboptimal quality, introduce video artifacts, or even fail completely on certain types of video. This is more common on older CPUs and GPUs. These bugs are in the hardware itself and cannot be fixed.