[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add NVENC encoder

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Sat Nov 29 00:51:21 CET 2014


On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:30:24AM -0800, Philip Langdale wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:21:26 +0100
> Timo Rothenpieler <timo at rothenpieler.org> wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds support for encoding with Nvidia NVENC on Windows and
> > Linux.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this needs to be flagged as nonfree. As far as I'm 
> > aware, it should not affect how the resulting binaries can be
> > redistributed.
> > 
> > The only dependency this has is the nvEncodeAPI.h from the NVENC SDK, 
> > which can be downloaded from Nvidia:
> > 
> > https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk
> > 
> > The header is somewhat hidden in the Samples directory.
> > 
> > I attached the current version of the patch.
> > It can also be found on my github fork:
> > 
> > https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg/tree/nvenc
> 
> For what it's worth, some engineers at Nvidia are also working on an
> nvenc implementation for ffmpeg. That initial work is here:
> 
> https://github.com/agathah/ffmpeg_libnvenc

whats the difference in features between the 2 implementations ?

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