WCS 5.2.1947

[Petro O. Bochan]

Hello,

At the "Release notes" page there is a 1947 build that states "Added: GPU encoding support". The corresponding ticket is "WCS-3652". I used to ask a question about "HEVC & NVENC" support at this post hevc & nvenc | Support Forums (flashphoner.com) . Does this build mean that NVENC has now been incorporated into WCS?

Thanks,
p

 

[Max]

Good day.
Yes, GPU encoding using NVIDIA CUDA is already supported, but decoding is not. We're working on GPU decoding in ticket WCS-4074.
If a stream is decoding by CPU and encoding by GPU, this lead to lack of performance due to a copying of a large byte arrays from system memory to GPU memory. So we do not recommend yet to use GPU in production.

 

[Petro O. Bochan]

Hello, I guess build 5.2.2022 (WCS-4074) now supports both GPU encoding and decoding. I searched the docs as well as settings but nothing was found. How do I use nvenc/nvdec?

 

[Max]

Good day.

Hello, I guess build 5.2.2022 (WCS-4074) now supports both GPU encoding and decoding. I searched the docs as well as settings but nothing was found. How do I use nvenc/nvdec?

The function is not quite ready to production use yet, so we have not documented it. We will let you know when it will be ready.

 

[Max]

Good day.
Since build 5.2.2022, WCS supports hardware acceleration using NVIDIA GPU while decoding and encoding video. See details here: Hardware acceleration support for video transcoding