[FFmpeg-user] Packages needed to enable nvenc (NVIDIA)

[Dennis Mungai]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 12:11, Def Etienne <shaker.doc at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> I just noticed from another thread that almost all development packages
> could be installed like below:
> “sudo apt-get -y install \
>  yasm libx264-dev libx265-dev libnuma-dev libvpx-dev \
>  libfdk-aac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopus-dev”
>
> What development package(s) do I need and what —enable-* do I add if I
> would like to use the c:v h264_nvenc option?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Def
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
You'll need the nv-codec-headers package, which you can build and install
from https://github.com/FFmpeg/nv-codec-headers
Your Linux distro may also package the same (albeit an older build, pinned
to a specific release) by the name ffnvcodec , ffnvcodec-headers, etc.