Even non-hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding is very fast via the libx264 library. "Very fast", in my opinion, means encoding good-quality (better than hardwar

Even non-hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding is very fast via the libx264 library. "Very fast", in my opinion, means encoding good-quality (better than hardware accelerators!) 4K video faster than real-time on hardware reasonable attainable in a $1000-$1500 desktop system.