FFmpeg + nvenc build script

This script will compile FFmpeg with Nvidia NVENC support enabled. It can also build OBS Studio or Simple Screen Recorder using that FFmpeg build thus providing NVENC for OBS.

It is brought to you by Linux GameCast and Lutris #lgccares

Requirements

• CUDA driver and toolkit

wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/10.2/Prod/local_installers/cuda_10.2.89_440.33.01_linux.run
sudo sh cuda_10.2.89_440.33.01_linux.run

• unzip
• git

Usage

Clone the repo then use the build.sh script to compile the binaries

git clone https://github.com/nicholas-littlelives/ffmpeg-nvenc.git
cd ffmpeg-nvenc
./build.sh --dest $HOME/apps/ffmpeg-nvenc

The following command line options are available:

• -d / --dest : Destination path for FFmpeg / OBS
• -o / --obs : Build OBS Studio
• -h / --help : Usage

TODO

• Add support for multiple distributions (currently only tested on Ubuntu 16.04)

Supporting the authors

If you find this script useful, you can consider supporting Linux GameCast and Lutris.