From 3a2b7b6e3b781d06597b43806f5a62dda420d636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Pecka Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:41:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs/hw-encoding: Add a note about the conda-distributed ffmpeg on windows Signed-off-by: Martin Pecka --- tutorials/hw-encoding.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/tutorials/hw-encoding.md b/tutorials/hw-encoding.md index 8885f58a4..465004563 100644 --- a/tutorials/hw-encoding.md +++ b/tutorials/hw-encoding.md @@ -271,6 +271,14 @@ Just give them a try and dig deeper in the configuration if something is wrong. # 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