From eea67ad97296e6c5ca475086cebd99ccc61c0496 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: eisneinechse <42617957+eisneinechse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:36:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Link to instruction to produce ffmpeg 4 plus the libraries on Ubuntu that support nVidia GPU acceleration. Tested on Mint 19.1. --- doc/HW-ACCEL.md | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/HW-ACCEL.md b/doc/HW-ACCEL.md index 7ed4c637..34e05e4f 100644 --- a/doc/HW-ACCEL.md +++ b/doc/HW-ACCEL.md @@ -74,8 +74,13 @@ This information might be wrong, and we would love to continue improving our support for hardware acceleration in OpenShot. Please help us update this document if you find an error or discover some new information. -**Desperately Needed:** A way to compile ffmpeg 4.0 and up with working nVidia -hardware acceleration support on Ubuntu Linux! +**Desperately Needed:** The manual at: +https://www.tal.org/tutorials/ffmpeg_nvidia_encode +works pretty well. I could compile and install a version of ffmpeg 4.1.3 +on Mint 19.1 that supports the GPU on nVidia cards. A version of openshot +with hardware support using these libraries could use the nVidia GPU. +(A way to compile ffmpeg 4.0 and up with working nVidia +hardware acceleration support on Ubuntu Linux!) **BUG:** Hardware supported decoding still has a bug. The speed gains with decoding are by far not as great as with encoding. In case hardware accelerated