Pretty clean shell script: <a href="https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/blob/master/patch.sh">https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/blob/master/patch.sh</a><p>Surprised there are no protection/obfuscation methods against patching the `.so` in this fashion. No checksums, signatures, etc.
I see the limitation used to be 3, but was raised over a year to 8 for most modern GPUs:<p><a href="https://videocardz.com/newz/nvdia-geforce-gpus-now-support-up-to-8-concurrent-nvenc-encoding-sessions" rel="nofollow">https://videocardz.com/newz/nvdia-geforce-gpus-now-support-u...</a><p>Anyone know what sort of a difference "unlimited" NVENC streams means in practice for a 4090?
What is the purpose of restricting it in the first place? Are there enough people out there streaming dozens of videos for Nvidia to care to milk them?
There’s no artificial limit on AMD and Intel I think.<p>Proves that competition fixes these greedy nvidia artificially restricted capabilities.<p>If it’s up to 8 then you gotta wonder why bother have any limit at all.