OvenMediaEngine supports GPU-based hardware decoding and encoding. Currently supported GPU acceleration devices are Intel's QuickSync and NVIDIA. This article explains how to install the drivers for OvenMediaEngine and set up the configuration to use your GPU.
Please refer to the link for how to build and run.
Intructions on running Docker
you must include the --gpus all option when running Docker
To use hardware acceleration, set the HardwareAcceleration option to true under OutputProfiles. If this option is enabled, a hardware codec is automatically used when creating a stream, and if it is unavailable due to insufficient hardware resources, it is replaced with a software codec.
The codecs available using hardware accelerators in OvenMediaEngine are as shown in the table below. Different GPUs support different codecs. If the hardware codec is not available, you should check if your GPU device supports the codec.
QuickSync
D / E
D / E
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NVIDIA
D / E
D / E
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Docker on NVIDIA Container Toolkit
D / E
D / E
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Xilinx U30MA
D / E
D / E
D : Decoding, E : Encoding
NVIDIA NVDEC Video Format : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVDEC
NVIDIA NVENV Video Format : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC
CUDA Toolkit Installation Guide : https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#introduction
NVIDIA Container Toolkit : https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/arch-overview.html#arch-overview
Quick Sync Video format support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
Xilinx Video SDK : https://xilinx.github.io/video-sdk/v3.0/index.html