[mythtv-users] HLS take advantage of GPU?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/1/2013 10:29 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
>         Can HLS take advantage of any GPUs for the transcoding?
>
>
>     Not at present, no. Nearly all existing GPU transcoding tools are
>     proprietary, and only amount to rather modest performance and
>     quality compared to x264 and a decent CPU. I haven't been paying
>     close attention, but I'm not aware of any production-ready open
>     source GPU encoding projects. The only other options are things like
>     Elegato's encoder dongle, which does not have Linux drivers, and
>     **** Intel's QuickSync, which similarly does not have publicly
>     available Linux drivers *****.
>
>
> Not exactly true:
>
> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2013/2013q1-intel-graphics-stack-release
> (see highlighted new features)
>
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/vcsource/tools/media-sdk-linux - the
> latest tutorial talks about encoding video with the GPU... and the
> september 6th tutorial talks about using the media-sdk with FFMpeg.
>
> So, really, it's probably just a matter of time.

Last time this came up, there was mention that Intel had drivers 
available, but had only released them to a few select parties. I wonder 
what all is included by this "AVC Progressive Encode Support".