[FFmpeg-devel] Why this is happening? CUDA ERROR OUT OF MEMORY

[Dennis Mungai]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020, 15:13 Rodrigo Dal Ri, <rodrigo.dalri at technobox.com.br>
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I am using ffmpeg to transcode some live channels, but I'm having a
> recurring problem.
> All the time I get a CUDA out of memory error( attached print ), even
> though the video card has nothing to process.
> I build my ffmpeg following the NVIDIA FFmpeg Transcoding Guide (
> https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-ffmpeg-transcoding-guide/ ).
> I already used the following setups, but in all the error keeps happening
> .
>
>
>
> First Setup:
> OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS 64 bits
> kernel: 5.0.0-37-generic
> GPU: Quadro P4000
> driver: 440.33.01
>
>
>
>
> Second Setup:
> OS: CentOS 8.1.1911
> kernel: 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64
> GPU: Quadro P4000
> driver: 440.33.01
>
>
>
>
> Third Setup:
> OS: CentOS 8.1.1911
> kernel: 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64
> GPU: Quadro P4000
> driver: 435.21 Short Lived
>
>
>
>
> F ourth Setup:
> OS: Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS
> kernel: 4.4.0-148-generic
> GPU: Quadro P4000
> driver: 435.21 Short Lived
>
>
>
>
> Fifth Setup:
> OS: CentOS 8.1.1911
> kernel: 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64
> GPU: Quadro P4000
> driver: 440.33.01
>
>
> According to what I researched this error can be caused by a possible
> combination between OS, kernel, gpu and driver. (
> https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/74738-42018-nvenc-sometimes-randomly-fails-with-cuda-error-out-of-memory-out-of-memory/
> )
>
>
> Can someone help me?
> Thanks.
>
>
>


First and foremost, move your question to the ffmpeg-user mailing list.
> This list is used for patchwork and queries on using libav programmatically.


Secondly, post the full command used and the respective output. Pasting
images in place of console output isn't encouraged.