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Jiří Doubravský
Asked: 2019-09-21 05:17:22 +0800 CST

How enable GPU accelerated video encoders in FFMPEG, Ubuntu 19.04?

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How enable HW accelrated encoding in FFMPEG, Ubuntu 19.04 ? (at least _nvenc variants of h.264/h.265 encoders)

Do you know simplified user friendly way, how to do that using TASKSEL or similar automated tools ? Thank you for any advice.

(my configuration: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 / nVidia binary drivers version 418.56, nvidia-cuda-toolkit installed)

$ ffmpeg -h encoder=hevc_nvenc

ffmpeg version 4.1.3-0ubuntu1
Codec 'hevc_nvenc' is not recognized by FFmpeg.

btw, my cuda acceleration works perfectly in BLENDER CYCLES ... so it works in general, but not in FFMPEG

nvidia ffmpeg encoding cuda 19.04

2 Answers

  1. I've found simple solution ...

    just remove ffmpeg package

    sudo apt remove ffmpeg

    and install SNAP package instead

    sudo snap install ffmpeg

    And thats it, you can use *_nvenc codecs now. They are already included in snap package. No need to download header files, no need to complile anything.

    Tip: If you have ubuntu version 19.04, be sure to give the ffmpeg package all permissions (especially access to external storage) in the software center.

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  2. The version 4.2.4 Can recognize encoder=hevc_nvenc properly (I have same gtx 1060 on Linux Ubuntu, so I have tested it on 20.04)

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