Install NVDEC and NVENC as GStreamer plugins

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Install NVDEC and NVENC as GStreamer plugins

Environment

• Ubuntu 18.04
• NVIDIA driver 460.32.03
• NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 11.0.10
• GStreamer 1.14.5

Steps

1. Clone the gst-plugins-bad and check out to the same version as GStreamer installed on your PC

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad
cd gst-plugins-bad/
git checkout 1.14.5

2. Download NVIDIA Video Codec SDK and copy header files

cd /path/to/video/codec/sdk
cp /usr/local/cuda/include/cuda.h /path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc
cp Interface/nvEncodeAPI.h /path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc
cp Interface/cuviddec.h /path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvdec
cp Interface/nvcuvid.h /path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvdec

3. Build plugins

cd /path/to/gst-plugins-bad
NVENCODE_CFLAGS="-I/path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc" ./autogen.sh --with-cuda-prefix="/usr/local/cuda" --disable-gtk-doc
cd sys/nvenc
make
sudo cp .libs/libgstnvenc.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/
cd ../nvdec
make
sudo cp .libs/libgstnvdec.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/

4. Check installation

gst-inspect-1.0 | grep nvenc
gst-inspect-1.0 | grep nvdec

References

• DeepStream ContainerでH264ハードウエアエンコーダーを使う

For future reference -
@tadam98 known issue that I ran into building on 20.04. Seemingly wasn't resolved? The hotfix is to remove references to openexr in the ./ext/Makefile (who uses openexr files anyway lol)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/-/issues/1117

Edit: this also is only an issue if you don't cd into /sys/nvenc and simply build from the root ... I guess I'm not the only one to miss that part?

Do you have a receipt for meson builds? 1.22 for instance is not having that ./autogen/make anymore

Do you have a receipt for meson builds? 1.22 for instance is not having that ./autogen/make anymore

The same question.

Do you have a receipt for meson builds? 1.22 for instance is not having that ./autogen/make anymore

The same question.

Before I abandoned all attempts I found, that it is possible to change into subprojects/gst-plugins-bad and build from there

(I tried to compile on Jetson Nano, couldn't make it to have nvh264enc on Ubuntu 20.04, CUDA 12 and GST 1.22, I suppose this is not going to work at all since it would require a GST fork, which is made for the Jetson GPU)

Following all steps provided above I get the error when I try to make the 'sys/nvenc' directory:

• Ubuntu version 20.08
• Gsteamer version 1.16.3
• Video Codec version 12.0

Anyone with a fix?

gstnvbaseenc.c:86:79: error: ‘NV_ENC_PRESET_DEFAULT_GUID’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘NV_ENC_PRESET_P7_GUID’?
   86 | #define CASE(gst,nv) case G_PASTE(GST_NV_PRESET_,gst): return G_PASTE(G_PASTE(NV_ENC_PRESET_,nv),_GUID)
   
   gstnvbaseenc.c:131:72: error: ‘NV_ENC_PARAMS_RC_VBR_MINQP’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘NV_ENC_PARAMS_RC_VBR’?
  131 | #define CASE(gst,nv) case G_PASTE(GST_NV_RC_MODE_,gst): return G_PASTE(NV_ENC_PARAMS_RC_,nv)

Following all steps provided above I get the error when I try to make the 'sys/nvenc' directory:

* Ubuntu version 20.08

* Gsteamer version 1.16.3

* Video Codec version 12.0

Anyone with a fix?

gstnvbaseenc.c:86:79: error: ‘NV_ENC_PRESET_DEFAULT_GUID’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘NV_ENC_PRESET_P7_GUID’?
   86 | #define CASE(gst,nv) case G_PASTE(GST_NV_PRESET_,gst): return G_PASTE(G_PASTE(NV_ENC_PRESET_,nv),_GUID)
   
   gstnvbaseenc.c:131:72: error: ‘NV_ENC_PARAMS_RC_VBR_MINQP’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘NV_ENC_PARAMS_RC_VBR’?
  131 | #define CASE(gst,nv) case G_PASTE(GST_NV_RC_MODE_,gst): return G_PASTE(NV_ENC_PARAMS_RC_,nv)

When running git checkout 1.14.5 make sure you are checkouting the version of your gstreamer. That solved my problem. I also used this guide to successfully get nvdec and nvh265enc + nvh264enc:
https://lifestyletransfer.com/how-to-install-nvidia-gstreamer-plugins-nvenc-nvdec-on-ubuntu/