Using NVIDIA's NVENC On Linux With FFmpeg

[xeekei]

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.

[stqn]

Too bad that NVENC, at least on a GTX 680, seems to produce extremely low quality encodes?
(Based on this article in French: http://www.hardware.fr/focus/67/enco...quicksync.html and more specifically this comparison: http://www.hardware.fr/marc/h264nven...?inception720a (you can click on the buttons at the bottom to compare NVENC with x264 veryfast for example))

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Using NVIDIA's NVENC On Linux With FFmpeg

With the new NVIDIA 346 Linux driver series NVENC support was made available for accelerated video encoding support under Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg0NTY