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Signed-off-by: Martin Pecka <[email protected]>
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# Caveats

## FFMpeg on Windows via Conda

The current distribution of FFMpeg via Conda for Windows does not include the h264_qsv
encoder. It only has h264_nvenc. This means that using Intel GPUs for HW acceleration is
not possible out of the box. A possible solution would be to build a custom build of
ffmpeg in the workspace with gz-common. Pull requests with the relevant tutorial are
welcome.

## NVEnc per-machine limit

If you have a multi-GPU station with desktop-class (not server-class) GPUs, you will
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