[FFmpeg-user] Hardware encoding with AV1 and FFmpeg

[Dennis Mungai]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2022, 11:37 Wang, Fei W, <fei.w.wang-at-intel.com at ffmpeg.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 11:15 +0300, Dennis Mungai wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 at 11:03, Benjamin Parham <behfarteam at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > Recently Intel released the new GPU series “Intel Arc” which
> > > supports
> > > hardware encoding of AV1. They claim its speed is 50 times faster
> > > than
> > > software encoding. I’d like to know if it is available on FFmpeg?
> > > If yes,
> > > how can we use it?
> > > I would appreciate your answer.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ben.
> > >
> > >
> > Hello there,
> >
> > At the moment, what's available upstream, via libva 2.14+ is an
> > encode
> > interface for AV1 targeting  capable GPUs such as Intel's Arctic
> > Sound M
> > series.
> > See the release notes for libva 2.14 here
> > https://github.com/intel/libva/releases/tag/2.14.0
> > So far (to the best of my knowledge), no encoder wrapper for either
> > VAAPI
> > or QSV exists for AV1 encoding yet.
> > You can expect these to follow shortly after the Arctic Sound M
> > series GPUs
> > are launched, as Intel contributes heavily to these projects.
> >
> > Warm regards,
> >
> > Dennis.
>
> Hi
>
> Please take a look at this repo:
>
> https://github.com/intel-media-ci/cartwheel-ffmpeg
>
> It support QSV and VAAPI av1e both. Upstream process would be soon.
>
> Thanks
> Fei
>

>
Thanks, I'll check it out.