This gist will help you to compile ffmpeg with NVENC, QSV, VAAPI, VDPAU, and OpenCL support.

ffmpeg.md

Compilation FFMpeg / NVENC + NVRESIZE + QSV + VAAPI + VDPAU + OpenCL

This gist will help you to compile ffmpeg with NVENC, QSV, VAAPI, VDPAU, and OpenCL support.

nVidia nvresize patch is outdated and not more compatible to the latest version of FFmpeg, so it's not included in this documentation.

(even if I've passed a lot of time at trying to make it compile... without any success)

Please don't rely on this page: https://developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg, the implementation is a hack and was never been added to the main FFmpeg tree.

See:

• https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-November/182781.html
• https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-November/182784.html
• https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-November/182818.html

Base documentation

• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Ubuntu
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro
• FFMPEG-with-NVIDIA-Acceleration-on-Ubuntu_UG_v01.pdf

Required softwares

• Linux Mint 18 / Ubuntu 16.04
• nVidia Video Codec SDK No more needed, now already included in FFMpeg source code
• nVidia CUDA SDK No more needed, now already included in FFMpeg source code

Steps (respect the order)

FFmpeg dependencies

sudo apt-get install -y yasm autoconf automake build-essential libass-dev libfreetype6-dev libsdl2-dev libtool libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev pkg-config texinfo zlib1g-dev

FFMpeg extra dependencies

sudo apt-get install -y ladspa-sdk ladspa-foo-plugins libbluray-dev libbluray-doc libbluray1 libbluray-bin

NVENC Headers No more needed, now already included in FFMpeg source code

cd Video_Codec_SDK_7.0.1
sudo cp -v Samples/common/inc/*.h /usr/local/include/
make -j $(nproc)
cd..

QSV git clone https://github.com/lu-zero/mfx_dispatch.git

Require Intel graphics cards or minimum i915 chipset

cd mfx_dispatch
autoreconf -fiv
./configure
make -j $(nproc)
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ..

OpenCL sudo apt-get install -y ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers

VAAPI sudo apt-get install -y libva-dev vainfo

VDPAU

sudo apt-get install -y vdpau-driver-all mesa-vdpau-drivers vdpau-va-driver libvdpau-dev vdpauinfo

x264 git clone http://git.videolan.org/git/x264.git

cd x264
./configure --disable-cli --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-strip
make -j $(nproc)
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ..

x265 sudo apt-get install -y cmake mercurial

hg clone http://hg.videolan.org/x265
cd x265/build
cmake ../source
make -j $(nproc)
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ..

fdk_aac git clone https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac.git

autoreconf -fiv
./configure
make -j $(nproc)
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ..

libmp3_lame sudo apt-get install -y libmp3lame-dev

libopus sudo apt-get install -y libopus-dev

libvpx wget http://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webm/libvpx-1.5.0.tar.bz2

tar xjvf libvpx-1.5.0.tar.bz2
cd libvpx-1.5.0
./configure --disable-examples --disable-unit-tests
make -j $(nproc)
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ..

Sox

sudo apt-get install -y sox libsox-dev libsox-fmt-all libsox2 libsoxr-dev libsoxr-lsr0

SSH / SSL

sudo apt-get install -y libssh-dev libssh-dbg libssh2-1-dev libssh2-1-dbg libssl-dev openssl

Xvid / Theora / Vorbis / Wavpack / OpenAL / RTMPDump

sudo apt-get install -y libtheora-dev libwavpack-dev libwavpack1 libxvidcore-dev libxvidcore4 libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev librtmp-dev rtmpdump

ffmpeg git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git ffmpeg

mkdir -v ffmpeg_build
cd ffmpeg_build
../ffmpeg/configure --prefix="./" --disable-shared --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/include --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cuda-8.0/targets/x86_64-linux/include --extra-cflags=-I../nvidia/cudautils --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cuda-8.0/targets/x86_64-linux/lib --extra-ldflags=-L../nvidia/cudautils --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-openal --enable-opencl --enable-opengl --enable-x11grab --enable-libnpp --enable-libmfx --enable-nvenc --enable-cuda --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libass --enable-libwavpack --enable-libsoxr --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-librtmp --enable-libssh --enable-openssl
make -j $(nproc)
make install

Test install

./bin/ffmpeg -version
./bin/ffmpeg -encoders | grep -i 'nvidia'
./bin/ffmpeg -encoders | grep -i 'vaapi'
./bin/ffmpeg -encoders | grep -i 'vdpau'
./bin/ffmpeg -encoders | grep -i 'qsv'

Some CUDA / NVENC Testing

CPU Based encoding

time ./bin/ffmpeg -y -i ~/Vidéos/VTS.VOB -t 60 -r 25 -profile:v high -c:v libx264 -fpre ~/Projects/bjrencoder-pro/Presets/libx264-custom.ffpreset -vf "scale=1920:trunc(ow/a/2)*2" -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 6250k -maxrate:v 12500k -bufsize 12500k -x264-params threads=0:level=51:aq-mode=1:intra-refresh=0:b-pyramid=0:8x8dct=1 -movflags +faststart -map 0:1 -map 0:2 -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng -c:a ac3 -b:a 384k -ar 48000 -ac 2 ~/Vidéos/VOB_x264_25fps_12500_60s_cpu.mp4

real	4m3.338s
user	12m12.096s
sys	0m7.448s

GPU Based encoding

time ./bin/ffmpeg -y -i ~/Vidéos/VTS.VOB -t 60 -r 25 -profile:v high -c:v h264_nvenc -fpre ~/Projects/bjrencoder-pro/Presets/libx264-custom.ffpreset -vf "scale=1920:trunc(ow/a/2)*2" -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 6250k -maxrate:v 12500k -bufsize 12500k -x264-params threads=0:level=51:aq-mode=1:intra-refresh=0:b-pyramid=0:8x8dct=1 -movflags +faststart -map 0:1 -map 0:2 -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng -c:a ac3 -b:a 384k -ar 48000 -ac 2 ~/Vidéos/VOB_x264_25fps_12500_60s_gpu.mp4

real	0m30.826s
user	0m20.964s
sys	0m1.084s

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CPU Based encoding (HEVC)

time ./bin/ffmpeg -y -i ~/Vidéos/BigBuckBunny/bbb_sunflower_native_60fps_normal.mp4 -t 30 -r 25 -c:v libx265 -vf "scale=1920:trunc(ow/a/2)*2" -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 6250k -maxrate:v 12500k -bufsize 12500k -x264-params threads=0:level=51:aq-mode=1:intra-refresh=0:b-pyramid=0 -movflags +faststart -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng -c:a ac3 -b:a 384k -ar 48000 -ac 2 ~/Vidéos/bbb_sunflower_native_60fps_normal_EN_x265_25fps_12500_cpu.mkv

real	7m31.627s
user	22m25.816s
sys	0m11.992s

GPU Based encoding (HEVC)

** Desktop: GPU HEVC works only for graphics cards Geforce GTX 950 series or higher graphics cards (GTX 950, GTX 960, GTX 970, GTX 980, GTX Titan X) **

** Laptop: GTX 965M, 970M, 980M or higher graphics cards **

time ./bin/ffmpeg -y -i ~/Vidéos/BigBuckBunny/bbb_sunflower_native_60fps_normal.mp4 -t 30 -r 25 -c:v hevc_nvenc -vf "scale=1920:trunc(ow/a/2)*2" -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 6250k -maxrate:v 12500k -bufsize 12500k -x264-params threads=0:level=51:aq-mode=1:intra-refresh=0:b-pyramid=0 -movflags +faststart -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng -c:a ac3 -b:a 384k -ar 48000 -ac 2 ~/Vidéos/bbb_sunflower_native_60fps_normal_EN_x265_25fps_12500_gpu.mkv

[hevc_nvenc @ 0x30b7700] No NVENC capable devices found

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CPU Utilization

• top
• vmstat -w -n 1

GPU Utilization

• nvidia-smi
• nvidia-smi dmon -i 0

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CUDA Tools binaries

cuda-install-samples-8.0.sh <dir>
cd nvidia/NVIDIA_CUDA-8.0_Samples
make -j $(nproc)
cd bin/x86_64/linux/release/
./deviceQuery
./bandwidthTest

Finished :)

Followed this through from start to finish. Except can't compile -

ERROR: libmfx not found

I've not (as you haven't listed it) installed the Intel SDK - just MFX dispatcher. Is this a mistake?

@jonwaland I'll take a look and let you know. Here are the reference I used for this gist: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/QuickSync#libmfx

@jonwaland Maybe you might be interested by the work of @Brainiarc7, check it out: https://gist.github.com/Brainiarc7/4f831867f8e55d35cbcb527e15f9f116