{"id":10124,"date":"2021-04-08T17:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/?p=10124"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:24:51","slug":"what-are-the-differences-between-hardware-video-encoder-and-software-video-encoder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/what-are-the-differences-between-hardware-video-encoder-and-software-video-encoder\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the differences between hardware video encoder and software video encoder?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Video encoder as the sending end of the video source,\u00a0is a device that integrates collection, encoding, compression, and transmission. Most of them support multiple network transmission protocols such as TS\/HLS\/FLV\/RTSP\/RTMP\/UDP\/RTP\/unicast\/multicast. They are an important component of the digital network video and audio live broadcast system. See\u00a0What is a video encoder?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In video transmission we have hardware encoder and software encoder.\u00a0The biggest difference between a\u00a0<strong>hardware encoder\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>software encoder<\/strong>\u00a0is that hardware encoders are purpose-built devices with dedicated and more professional processing uses GPU (graphics processing unit) to process video data like the Kiloview E1 Encoder, while a software encoder is a program such as OBS that runs on a computer platform using the CPU for processing the stream data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kiloview-E1-Encoder.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kiloview-E1-Encoder-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kiloview-E1-Encoder-768x493.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kiloview-E1-Encoder.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This means HD video encoding with software will never make friends with computer of low-power CPU &#8211; it may not decode smoothly or affect other tasks running, especially for low-configuration computers. Moreover, with 4k and H.265\u2019s overwhelming development, CPU decoding could not afford to encode such videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike computers, hardware encoders are dedicated to doing one task, which is to encode your video\/ audio. There is less risk of a hardware encoder freezing during production whereas a computer is more susceptible to freezing and crashes. Additionally, you don\u2019t have to worry about CPU usage limits, memory, and network security problems when using a hardware encoder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the differences between hardware video encoder and software video encoder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55380,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions\/55380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiloview.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}