Using NVIDIA's NVENC On Linux With FFmpeg

[Nille]

Would be awesome if this get upstream. Also i wish that we see AMD VCE and Intel QuickSync Support.

[droste]

[...]Using the same API for both decode and encode only makes sense[...]

because...? Why does it make sense?

[blackout23]

Hope this finds its way into Steam InHome Streaming.

[drSeehas]

Because NVENC is designed to use dedicated encoding hardware in the GPU, ...

VA API or OpenMAX aren't designed to use dedicated encoding hardware in the GPUs?

[xeekei]

He's probably refering to this article and the earlier one linked to it.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTgwMjA

Yes. More cooperation with Intel could be key to counter Nvidia's dominance. Using the same API for both decode and encode only makes sense, and VAAPI is already very established.

[pinguinpc]

In my case works however needs nvEncodeAPI.h from NVENC Windows SDK and cuda SDK installed too

For more information can see this

https://github.com/Brainiarc7/ffmpeg...618c59b0c24d36

Without NVENC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iFCKGBy1Fg

With NVENC

[DarkFoss]

AFAIK AMD uses OpenMAX for encode/decode and VDPAU for decode only, and VAAPI is Intel only, or did I miss some news about AMD?

He's probably refering to this article and the earlier one linked to it.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMjA

[r1348]

So with NVidia, it's two different APIs for encode and decode? NVENC and VDPAU? Why not just adopt VAAPI? I think AMD is doing that.

AFAIK AMD uses OpenMAX for encode/decode and VDPAU for decode only, and VAAPI is Intel only, or did I miss some news about AMD?

[Szzz]

I will still use x264

[efikkan]

So with NVidia, it's two different APIs for encode and decode? NVENC and VDPAU? Why not just adopt VAAPI? I think AMD is doing that.

Because NVENC is designed to use dedicated encoding hardware in the GPU, unlike the previous encoder which utilizes CUDA.