4.1.2. Hardware Accelerated Streaming

CLOID encodes screens in real-time using NVIDIA Capture SDK. The NVFBC API also provides very fast access to frames rendered onscreen, allowing access to frames at a speed that is directly connected to GPU. In addition, frames can be transmitted with very low latency because frames are received and encoded at the same time through the dedicated compression device built into the NVIDIA GPU.

This allows for high-quality streaming with minimal impact on CPU performance while simultaneously increasing streaming speed and reducing buffering frequency.

Figure 11. CLOID Encoding Architecture