The windows media foundation H264 encoders have been deprecated for over
a year, and microsoft's media foundation AAC encoder has had a continued
issue with occasional random audio glitches. The FFmpeg AAC encoder has
had recent development, and is more than sufficient to be able to handle
the task of encoding in terms of both quality and performance, so it's
better just to use the FFmpeg encoder from here on out.
As this plugin is no longer needed, for the next year or two it'll still
be compiled and included, but as a blank plugin that does nothing. The
reason why it's still being included as a blank no-operation plugin is
to overwrite older versions of the plugin. That way if a user installs
a newer OBS version over an older one, it won't load up the older win-mf
plugin where the encoders still were enabled.
This also fixes some rarely reported media foundation crashes that can
happen on startup.
The call to CoInitializeEx in the win-mf module caused some sort of
conflict with the decklink module, causing the decklink module to crash
on exit. Instead, let libobs handle COM initialization.
Implements hardware encoders through the Media Foundation interface
provided by Microsoft.
Supports:
- Quicksync (Intel)
- VCE (AMD)
- NVENC (NVIDIA, might only be supported through MF on Windows 10)
Notes:
- NVENC and VCE do not appear to have proper CBR implementations. This
isn't a fault of our code, but the Media Foundation libraries.
Quicksync however appears to be fine.
jp9000