Please note that the following commands were executed on a system that already had CUDA support so we might be missing a step or two to enable NVIDIA CUDA support.
Install necessary packages
1 | sudo apt-get install build-essential yasm cmake libtool libc6 libc6-dev unzip wget libnuma1 libnuma-dev nvidia-cuda-toolkit; |
Clone and install ffnvcodec
1 2 3 4 | git clone https://git.videolan.org/git/ffmpeg/nv-codec-headers.git;cd nv-codec-headers;sudo make install;cd -; |
Clone and compile FFmpeg’s public GIT repository with NVIDIA GPU hardware acceleration
1 2 3 4 5 | git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg/;cd ffmpeg;./configure --enable-nonfree --enable-cuda-nvcc --enable-libnpp --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cuda/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cuda/lib64 --disable-static --enable-shared;make -j 8;sudo make install; |
SUCCESS!
After performing the above steps, we were able to process media using ffmpeg without stressing our CPU! The workload was transferred to the GPU!
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