Thank you very much for the release — you really surprised me with this one.
Is there already an ETA for audio streaming on the Linux and macOS clients?
That’s really great! But we 30-series (or older) GPU users would also benefit from HEVC/H.265 encoding. You can clearly see the difference on the other (blue ) platform, for example: HEVC/H.265 delivers a much better-quality stream than NVENC H.264. Unfortunately, H.264 with the 10,000 kbit/s limit in the client (or even the server) at 1440p60 looks really rough. I know the client has lots of custom encoder options and that HEVC is patented, but users on older GPUs would definitely benefit from HEVC, our cards simply can’t encode AV1. And if licensing is too expensive, at least let us stream at higher bandwidth, which would also allow for better quality.
I agree with you, h265 looks very good. As you said, unfortunately it is licensed and will therefore probably not be used.
Regarding your experience, I haven’t had any problems with the 10,000 bitrate limit so far, even at 1440p60fps. What is being streamed and how many people are watching? Maybe the streamer’s internet connection is reaching its limits. Have you tried setting the quality settings in the h264 encoder higher?
I stream to 3 people. so it will need 30.000kbit/s of my upload bandwith. My ISP’s contract allows me 40Mbit/s but i am getting 45Mbit/s on my line. I should be fine. I will see and try if i can optimize the Encoder options even more. I am already on P7 etc
As soon as the servers can relay the streams it will even be better! (In terms of bandwith)
Had a problem with TeamSpeak and Kubuntu 25.10 + AMD 6800XT. Hardware acceleration for video was not possible, all options were grayed out to software only. After enabling developer mode and digging arround with the help of an AI (thanks @Grok) i discovered that TS coulnd’t find VA-API libs so i ran it with “LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libva.so.2 /Your Path/To/Teamspeak/TeamSpeak. In my case this is where libva.so.2 was located under Kubuntu 25.10. Now Encoding for H264 shows properly H.264/AVC (VAAPI). Hope this helps others while developers may choose to add this workaround in a future patch.
This works perfectly, appreciate the tip. /usr/lib64/libva.so.2 is the path I used on a fedora-based distro, which also enabled AV1 encode on my 9070XT. Thanks!
In my opinion that´s the biggest problem left. Most user don´t have the bandwith to upload the stream to each individual user. That´s why it is still unusable for us at the moment. Hope Server Streaming will be implemented soon.
I found the cause of my issue: the libva version in Ubuntu 24.04 is too old. I fixed it by installing a newer libva version locally and using it only for TeamSpeak.