Was considering building a streaming rig around a Mac Mini. I wonder if with these performance enhancements, that will work for me?

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keyle 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Highly depends on what you're streaming. If you stream arcade 2D games of the past, or software development, it should be perfectly fine.

AAA titles with newer graphics, well, you can always send a capture the PC with the nvidia card's screen through a capture card.

Back in my days of streaming, macOS was no option, cca. 2017. Today I'd do it with any M processor mac without a second thought.

	▲	KronisLV 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I actually used an M1 MacBook Air for encoding/compositing by sending the video/audio sources over from my main PC with DistroAV (LAN). Worked reasonably well (you can send camera/VTuber output and captured video from game and any overlays separately, or just use the setup in a similar way to a capture card and run ONLY the game on the gaming PC and everything else on the Mac), but added some complexity to it all. A beefy Nvidia GPU would make that setup not necessary, unless you want to directly play games on the Mac.

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stephen_g 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Streaming video from camera? In general the newer Mac Minis in general were fine already just because the M-series chips are very fast, but hopefully this should make it much more efficient

	▲	dwoldrich 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's great to hear, but perhaps I will ask too much even of the M-series chips. Occasionally, I will show 3 things at once: an MP4 that the Mac Mini plays from its storage transitioning into captured hdmi signal from a canon camera as picture-in-picture with the main body of the stream containing captured hdmi output from my development laptop. I'm not sure what my capture solution will be, but it seems there are a wide variety of USB-C capture adapters that I could use that are compatible with OBS on Mac and are even bus powered. Other comments seem to indicate there are bugs in that specific picture-in-picture setup, but I'm sure those will get ironed out.