[FFmpeg-devel] GPU Hardware Acceleration [was Re: openCL support]

[Andrey Utkin]

2012/12/31 Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 at gmail.com>:
> I wish I had time to implement bindings to
> https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-codec-libraries (nvcuvenc).  There
>  "may" be libraries for nvcuvenc for linux, I haven't looked into it
> too much, but
>  every so often people that do live streaming using ffmpeg "wish" they
>  could use their graphics card for encoding, to save on cpu, so it might
>  be interesting.

Nvidia H.264 encoding library is not available for linux, only for windows.
There is a commercial multi-platform library leveraging Nvidia GPU
from MainConcept. BTW it utilizes CPU quite noticeably, still its
performance figured out to be not interesting in comparsion with
x264...

-- 
Andrey Utkin