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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • twitch - the gameplay streaming platform - limits 1080p streams to 8000 kbps at most, at 60 FPS. I think it exclusively uses H264 encoding. For most games this is plenty.
    There are some where it can be felt that it’s not enough, but in those cases it’s always the bitrate.

    these games include

    • escape from tarkov because of it’s environment, especially if the player has taken I think painkillers, and in turn has sharper/different vision. compression is really struggling there
    • no mans sky when traveling in hyperspace, this is the most extreme case I have seen so far
    • any games that have darker scenes (not necessarily in a “bright night” style) will have it visible

    unless you are playing a quick action first person shooter, 165 fps is totally unnecessary, 60 is plenty.
    1440p, I’m not sure. if thats your screen resolution, maybe it’s better to not lose quality to downscaling, more so because it can’t be done by just averaging every 2 pixels, it would bea weird ratio I think

    for encoding… what hardware you have?
    x265 is more efficient than x264, if you can afford the performance, but if you have a graphics card with hardware accelerated AV1 encoding, that may be even better. do some test recordings though.


  • Fairphone 4 user here too. I also got it second hand, but immediately replaced the OS with CalyxOS. It seems fast to me. My last phone wasn’t.

    My only problems with it so far is the lack of a jack, that I need to remove the battery to remove the SD or SIM card, and the screen seems too easily scratched. It was scratched when I got it, but not this mutch. Its in my pocket with nothing else, but the screen is basically full of micro scratches while my previous phone of 8 years has (which was a very cheap phone even back then) almost no scratches at all.