[FFmpeg-user] Hardware Acceleration on OS X

[Tom Evans]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Elliott Balsley
<elliottbalsley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've read bits and pieces about ffmpeg's hardware acceleration, but can't find a full answer.
> On OS X, is VDA the only supported hwaccel?  In what ways can it actually help?  I primarily use ffmpeg for x264 encodes, and libx264 does all the heavy lifting.
> I have an octo-core Mac Pro with GTX570 (2.5GB), so it would be great to utilize that powerful GPU if possible.

libx264 is not hardware accelerated, and the video decode acceleration
(VDA or VDPAU) on your graphics card is limited to presentation. VD in
both acronyms stands for 'Video Decode'.

Cheers

Tom