[FFmpeg-user] problem ffmpeg with cuda and scale

[Dennis Mungai]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 01:20, Michele Salerno <mikysal78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Il giorno gio 17 ott 2019 alle ore 22:07 Dennis Mungai
> <dmngaie at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 22:54, Michele Salerno <mikysal78 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Il giorno gio 17 ott 2019 alle ore 19:05 Dennis Mungai
> > > Driver does not support the required nvenc API version. Required: 9.1
> > > Found: 9.0
> > > [h264_nvenc @ 0x560d30a9b6c0] The minimum required Nvidia driver for
> > > nvenc is 435.21 or newer
> > > Error initializing output stream 0:0 -- Error while opening encoder
> > > for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate,
> > > rate, width or height
> > >
> > > I have installed:
> > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.50.run and cuda_10.1.243_418.87.00_linux.run
> > > on debian buster-
> > > i compled ffmpeg:
> > > https://pastebin.com/WVPcZsCV
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >
> >
> > You should not install the device driver bundled with the SDK, as it’s
> > quite dated. If you’re to use the latest ffmpeg with the current ffnvcodec
> > header package, then you must be using driver 435, at the very least.
> >
> You have the link?

You'll need to uninstall the driver that was installed by the CUDA SDK
and then install this:

https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/150803/en-us

You can purge the previous driver by running:

nvidia-installer --uninstall

Then restart your computer before installing the new driver. Good luck