Compiling and Installing FFmpeg with Decklink Support and Nvidia Cuda on Ubuntu Server

Compiling and Installing FFmpeg with Decklink Support and Nvidia Cuda on Ubuntu Server.md

Compiling and Installing FFmpeg with Decklink Support and Nvidia Cuda on Ubuntu Server

1. Download and Install the NVIDIA Driver

Install the NVIDIA driver for CUDA and other GPU-related tools:

• Version: nvidia-driver-535

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-535
sudo reboot

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2. Install the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit

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3. Get NVIDIA Video Codec SDK

Download and set up the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK:

• Version: Video_Codec_SDK_11.1.5

mkdir -p ~/ffmpeg_sources ~/bin
cd ~/ffmpeg_sources && git clone https://github.com/LuizStSantos/Video_Codec_SDK_11.1.5.git NV_Codec_SDK
mkdir -p ~/ffmpeg_sources/NV_SDK
cp -r NV_Codec_SDK/Interface ~/ffmpeg_sources/NV_SDK

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4. Download and Install the DeckLink Driver

Download the Desktop Video driver and Desktop Video SDK from the official Blackmagic website:

• Download Desktop Video and SDK
• Version: Blackmagic_Desktop_Video_Linux_14.0.1

tar -xf Blackmagic_Desktop_Video_Linux_*.tar
cd Blackmagic_Desktop_Video_Linux_*/deb/x86_64/
sudo dpkg -i desktopvideo_*.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
BlackmagicFirmwareUpdater status
# If prompted to update the firmware, perform the update
BlackmagicFirmwareUpdater update 0
# If prompted to reboot, reboot the system
sudo reboot

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5. Install the Desktop Video SDK

• Version: Blackmagic_DeckLink_SDK_14.0

sudo apt install unzip
unzip Blackmagic_DeckLink_SDK_*.zip
cp -r Blackmagic\ DeckLink\ SDK\ */Linux/ ~/ffmpeg_sources/BMD_SDK

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6. Install Dependencies for Compiling FFmpeg

sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get -y install \
  autoconf automake build-essential cmake git-core \
  libass-dev libfreetype6-dev libgnutls28-dev libmp3lame-dev \
  libtool libvorbis-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev \
  meson ninja-build pkg-config texinfo wget zlib1g-dev libharfbuzz-dev \
  libfontconfig-dev libfribidi-dev libzmq5-dev

For audio and video encoding:

sudo apt-get -y install nasm yasm libx264-dev libx265-dev \
libnuma-dev libvpx-dev libunistring-dev libfdk-aac-dev \
libmp3lame-dev libopus-dev libssl-dev libdav1d-dev

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7. Compile and Install Additional Dependencies (ffnvcodec, libsrt, SVT-AV1)

ffnvcodec:

• Version: On Videolan

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone https://git.videolan.org/git/ffmpeg/nv-codec-headers.git
cd nv-codec-headers
sudo make install
cd

libsrt:

• Version: On Github

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
git clone https://github.com/Haivision/srt.git
cd srt
./configure
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
cd

SVT-AV1:

• Version: SVT-AV1-v2.2.0

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
wget https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/-/archive/v2.2.0/SVT-AV1-v2.2.0.zip
unzip SVT-AV1-v2.2.0.zip
cp -r SVT-AV1-v2.2.0 ~/ffmpeg_sources/SVT-AV1
cd SVT-AV1
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G"Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
cd

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8. Download FFmpeg Source Code

• Version: ffmpeg-7.0

cd ~/ffmpeg_sources
wget -c https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-7.0.tar.bz2
tar -xvf ffmpeg-*.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg-*/

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9. Configure FFmpeg to Support DeckLink

Configure FFmpeg with the necessary options for DeckLink and other codecs:

PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/cuda/lib64:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

./configure \
  --prefix="$HOME/ffmpeg_build" \
  --pkg-config-flags="--static" \
  --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include -I$HOME/ffmpeg_sources/BMD_SDK/include -I/usr/local/cuda/include -I$HOME/ffmpeg_sources/NV_SDK/Interface" \
  --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/lib -L/usr/local/cuda/lib64 -L$HOME/ffmpeg_sources/NV_SDK/Lib/linux/stubs/x86_64" \
  --extra-libs="-lpthread -lm" \
  --ld="g++" \
  --bindir="$HOME/bin" \
  --enable-gpl \
  --enable-libass \
  --enable-libfdk-aac \
  --enable-libfreetype \
  --enable-libharfbuzz \
  --enable-libfontconfig \
  --enable-libfribidi \
  --enable-libzmq \
  --enable-libmp3lame \
  --enable-libopus \
  --enable-libvorbis \
  --enable-openssl \
  --enable-libvpx \
  --enable-libx264 \
  --enable-libx265 \
  --enable-libsvtav1 \
  --enable-libdav1d \
  --enable-libsrt \
  --enable-nonfree \
  --enable-decklink \
  --enable-cuda \
  --enable-cuvid \
  --enable-nvenc \
  --enable-nvdec \
  --enable-libnpp \
  --enable-cuda-nvcc \
  --enable-ffnvcodec \
  --enable-cuda-llvm

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10. Compile and Install FFmpeg

Finally, compile and install FFmpeg:

PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" make -j$(nproc)
sudo cp ffmpeg ffprobe /usr/local/bin/