If anyone's interested in the programmatic side, I found the new Windows APIs for encoding to be very sufficient for both H.264 and HEVC: https://docs.microsoft

If anyone's interested in the programmatic side, I found the new Windows APIs for encoding to be very sufficient for both H.264 and HEVC: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Transcoding.MediaTranscoder https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Trans... I does not have as many tunable options as ffmpeg, but served me better for the purpose of multimonitor screen capture (~ 7k by 3k total resolution) precisely because it flings DXGI surfaces directly without the need to copy pictures from GPU to RAM and back for encoding.