OBS Studio Snap Uses Significantly More CPU For Encoding

Do you know what codec OBS is trying to encode to? The outside-sandbox vainfo output shows an extra encoder compared to inside: VAProfileHEVCMain10. This is the HEVC Main10 profile, which may also be known as H.265.

This is a bit of a longshot, as I would have thought it would be more likely to default to H.264.