[Libav-user] How to use my own cuda context and sutom cuda streams with ffmpeg

[Oscar Amoros Huguet]

Hi!

We are integrating ffmpeg in our product, in order to use NVIDIA hardware decoding capabilities for performance reasons. But we need the impact on the GPU (CUDA) side to be minimal, since our software intensively uses the GPU with CUDA.

When creating the hardware context (av_hwdevice_ctx_create), we would like to be able to specify that ffmpeg uses the current cuda context, and if possible, to specify a cuda stream, so all the internal calls to the cuda runtime (kernels, memory copies) are performed asynchronously, and we can synchronize either on GPU or CPU since we have access to the cuda stream where those calls where enqueued.

We have been looking into the source code (libavutil), and we don't see that possibility.

We have some ideas of how to make that possible by changing ffmpeg code, which we want to post on the ffmpeg-devel forums, but first we want to make sure we are not missing any way to do what we want to do with current ffmpeg code.

So, is it possible to tell ffmpeg to use the current CUDA context and specify a cudaStream?

Thanks!

Oscar
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Oscar Amoros Huguet
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