[FFmpeg-user] Stereo 3D encoding with nvenc

[Dennis Mungai]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, 18:39 Dennis Mungai, <dmngaie at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, 14:47 Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal, <
> etienne.sandre at m4x.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Are there options for encoding 3D video with nvenc, like with x264 and
>> --frame-packing? I know the NVEnc API has the option, but was it enabled
>> in
>> ffmpeg? I can't find any documented option.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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> On the hardware side, VAAPI (and possibly QuickSync) have such an option
> exposed via FFmpeg. There was patchwork (not sure if it's merged or not,
> it's been a while) authored by Mark? Thompson (sic, not sure, need to
> confirm) enabling such functionality. Let me check on that and get back to
> you.
>

I found the patch series, not sure if it was applied for VAAPI back in the
day. It was authored by Mark Thompson at the request of a user who was
dealing with stereoscopic H/W decode issues
https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2019-October/250966.html

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