diff --git a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-nvenc.c b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-nvenc.c
index e63fe77b5..017d2577c 100644
--- a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-nvenc.c
+++ b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-nvenc.c
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ static void *nvenc_create(obs_data_t *settings, obs_encoder_t *encoder)
 
 	enc = bzalloc(sizeof(*enc));
 	enc->encoder = encoder;
-	enc->nvenc = avcodec_find_encoder_by_name("nvenc_h264");
+	enc->nvenc = avcodec_find_encoder_by_name("h264_nvenc");
+	if (!enc->nvenc)
+		enc->nvenc = avcodec_find_encoder_by_name("nvenc_h264");
 	enc->first_packet = true;
 
 	blog(LOG_INFO, "---------------------------------");