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

ffmpeg.md

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

nVidia nvresize patch is outdated and not more compatible to the latest version of FFmpeg, so it's not included in this documentation.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