How to use with GPU?

[kennfoxx]

Hi everyone, I've been looking for information on using sickbeard_mp4_automator on a GPU server. The machine is Linux Ubuntu 18 + RTX 2070, could someone guide me how to configure?

[mdhiggins]

Lots of discussion on previous issues about this, just search for nvenc for closed issues on this repo to see what other people have done

First step is you'll need to understand hardware decoding / encoding for FFMPEG to determine what options you want since this is actually what drives everything

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro

and specifically additional documentation for NVIDIA

https://docs.nvidia.com/video-technologies/video-codec-sdk/ffmpeg-with-nvidia-gpu/

Once you have a working build of FFMPEG and can get hardware encoding working manually (by running ffmpeg commands on your own) then you're ready to configure the script to automate it

The main options you'll want for decoding are

hwaccels hwaccel-decoders hwdevices hwaccel-output-format

and for encoding you'll just want to set your codec to one of the nvenc encoders depending on if you want h264 or hevc/h265

So just set your first codec to h264_nvenc or hevc_nvenc, though you should include hevc or h264 after that so that remuxing can still be enabled

Example

[Video]
codec = hevc_nvenc, hevc

You don't need to do both encoding and decoding, can do either or, encoding is probably the more time sensitive one and higher yield if you're trying to improve performance though both will obviously be fastest

That should be more than enough to get you started

https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator/issues/1444 https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator/issues/1499 https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator/issues/1463 https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator/issues/1421

[kennfoxx]

Very grateful for the help.