Can i use hardware video encoding with encodarr runner ?

[tr1p0p]

Hi again,

I wonder how and where i can see the ffmpeg command encodarr runner do when it receive a file from the controller. I have a AMD GPU and i would like to know if ffmpeg take advantages of my raedon card to help for the encoding.

Where can we change the type on encoding ? I want to set ffmpeg with hevc_amf

Thanks.

[BrenekH]

Thanks for reaching out!

I don't have the hardware to test fully, which is why I've never worried about it, but I've added the ability to use a hardware codec in Version 0.2.2. You will still need to set Target Video Codec to the correct value because it's still used when decided whether or not to run a job.

[tr1p0p]

Well, this is the logs, maybe you will see : https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/6fB6NjdPgM/

[BrenekH]

Looks like everything is working to me. This is with hardware encoding turned on, correct?

[tr1p0p]

Yeah this is my settings.

Well if it's look good for you it's true it's take less cpu and i having a little more fps. Thanks for all the help with this

[BrenekH]

Sweet! Glad it's working.

[tr1p0p]

I wanna correct a thing i said : ffmpeg -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_device doesn't encode at all, it mean for decoding only (https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/VAAPI)

So the right way of launching a encode should begin with : ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i [video file] -c:v hevc_vaapi [output video]

Just for saying.

EDIT : Also, i try a lot the hardware option lately : i confirm it do nothing in the fps, actually it reduce it, i lose like 10 fps when i activate the hardware encoding. So i try to understand why