[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add NVENC encoder

[Philip Langdale]

On 29 Nov 2014 03:13, Timo Rothenpieler <timo at rothenpieler.org> wrote:
>
> > I've spent a lot more time looking at the nvidia patch, but from a 
> > quick look through Timo's version, I'd say the following: 
> > 
> > * Timo's is more concise but not as feature complete. 
> > * nvidia one has windows support 
> > * The nvidia patch doesn't handle b-frames correctly, but I wrote a 
> >   fix patch for them. I'm not sure whether Timo's works correctly 
> > * Timo's looks like it will handle interlaced input correctly. Nvidia 
> >   definitely does not. 
> > * nvidia one implements argument compatibility with x264 - so it uses 
> >   the same args as much as possible - it even does preset/tune mapping. 
> >   I think this is pretty nice. 
> > 
> > The main issue with the nvidia patch, as it exists today, is that they 
> > have not put any licence header on the files at all - but I've told 
> > them they need to do that, and asked Stephen Warren if he can help them 
> > out. The other slight complexity is that it requires cuda.h (Timo seems 
> > to have avoided that by independently defining the necessary constants 
> > but you need even more of cuda.h for the windows support). But 
> > nvEncoderAPI.h is already so awkward (restrictive license, not properly 
> > distributed) that an extra header isn't any more inconvenient. 
>
> My implementation also works fine on Windows. (Tested is with MSVC, 
> MinGW and Cygwin) 
> The required functions from CUDA are minimal, and i just dynamicaly load 
> them, avoiding any (linked) external dependencies except the nvEncodeAPI.h 
>
> The main difference is that they support way more features, but they 
> seem to need an intermediate library, while mine is now just a single 
> new C file, which needs one header from the nvenc SDK. 

Fair enough. They have a set of nvenc aware files that
expose an api to the ffmpeg aware encoder. I think they
did this for licensing reasons but it's pointless and I'd
recommend they drop the split. It's pointless because all
those files are inside the ffmpeg patch anyway.

Once they get back to work, hopefully they can get
involved here and you can all work together. 

BTW, can you verify that interlaced encoding works for 
you? I get initialization errors back from the hardware. 



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