Mark Tompkins mtompkins

Using VAAPI's hardware accelerated video encoding on Linux with Intel's hardware on FFmpeg and libav

Hello, brethren :-)

As it turns out, the current version of FFmpeg (version 3.1 released earlier today) and libav (master branch) supports full H.264 and HEVC encode in VAAPI on supported hardware that works reliably well to be termed "production-ready".

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Hi there! Since this post was originally written, nvm has gained some new tools, and some people have suggested alternative (and potentially better) approaches for modern systems. Make sure to have a look at the comments to this article, before following this guide!

The original article

Trickier than it seems.

Add the following chunk to your existing ISC dhcpd.conf file.

if exists user-class and ( option user-class = "iPXE" ) {
    filename "http://boot.smidsrod.lan/boot.ipxe";
}
else {
    filename "undionly.kpxe";
}

(or see https://gist.github.com/4008017 for a more elaborate setup

	# This is an example Makefile for quick package creation
	#
	# It uses FPM [1] to generate simple packages.
	# - If you need more features or a greater quality package, use debian
	# standard tools for packaging.
	# - Do not use checkinstall. Use FPM instead.
	#
	# [1] (https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki)

	# IMPORTANT:

	#!/bin/sh

	apt-get -y install git bc
	git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt /opt/letsencrypt
	mkdir /etc/letsencrypt

	Here goes.

	ls /usr/src/linux-headers-* -d \| sed -e 's/.*linux-headers-//' \| \
	sort -V \| tac \| sudo xargs -n1 /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller start

	Run as root.