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For TikTok Live (vertical, mobile-first), NVENC (GPU) is superior to x264 (CPU) for 99% of single-PC streamers. The visual quality difference at TikTok's bitrate cap is invisible, but the performance cost of x264 is massive.
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Crisp at start, blurry minutes later? This guide deep dives into "adaptive bitrate" mechanisms, providing 10-minute fixes from hardware encoding optimization to network jitter troubleshooting.