Nvidia Share was due to be released simultaneously with Nvidia Shield (June 2013), but it was delayed and released in the summer of 2013 but delayed. Nvidia ShadowPlay was spun out of the Nvidia Share, designed for the Nvidia Shield, a hardware-accelerated screen recording tool. It set the bitrate manually, and the available ranges depend on the resolution of the screen. Once It catches a frame, it encodes it with a special H.264 accelerated H.264 video encoder, which captures up to 4K at 130 Mbit/s, which does not influence the remaining system performance. NVIFR enables capturing a single window rather than the entire frame buffer.

It can employ two capturing methods: NVFBC and Inband Frame Readback (NVIFR). It is supported for any or more cards of the Nvidia GTX 600 series. It can be programmed to record a time back to save the video continually retroactively. Nvidia ShadowPlay is a hardware-accelerated screen capture program for Windows PCs running GeForce GPUs, produced by Nvidia as part of its GeForce Experience software.

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