[FFmpeg-user] intel quick sync with ffmpeg

[Andy Furniss]

Jayram Moorkanikara Nageswaran wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My current system:
> ***
> OS: Ubuntu Linux  14.04 with 3.14.5-MSSr6 #1 SMP.
> Hardware: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5557U CPU @ 3.10GHz
> ***
>
> 1) I managed to complete the detailed instruction for installing intel
> media sdk on generic Linux OS.
> I followed the instruction given in
> - https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2015-October/028761.html
> -
> https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-setup-media-server-studio-on-secondary-os-of-linux
>
> 2) I also compiled the latest ffmpeg from github following the procedure
> presented in
> https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2015-October/028761.html
>
> 3) I was testing compression of video camera feed using the command
>
>>> /opt/ffmpeg_qsv/bin/ffmpeg -f v4l2 -framerate 30 -video_size 640x480 -i
> /dev/video0 -c:v h264_qsv out.mp4 -loglevel 1000000
>
> *I got the following error:*
>
> [h264_qsv @ 0x2e327e0] Error initializing an internal MFX session
> Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect
> parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

You didn't specify bitrate/quality.

There are some examples at the bottom of -

https://github.com/drocon11/ffmpeg-qsv