Hi,
I'm running ZM 1.32.3 in my house on a pretty small server (Intel Celeron G3900) which is just sufficient but sometimes the load is too high.
I thought about using the HW acceleration for h264 decoding but I'm not so sure how to enable this feature for FFMPEG.
I'm only linux advanced beginner (means I have some linux installed on server base for webservices but I'm far away from being a daily user).
I found some ideas of how to compile FFMPEG with HW acceleration enabled but I skipped implementation because I found it to risky.
Now I found that there is a new FFMPEG 4 version which I could download and include into my Ubuntu 16.04. with PPA
https://tecadmin.net/install-ffmpeg-on-linux/
Has anybody tried this or think it may work to enable HW acceleration with ZM?
Best Regards
Uwe
HW acceleration with FFMPEG 4
Re: HW acceleration with FFMPEG 4
thank you snake for your quick reply.
So I understand that just changing the version of ffmpeg may not be good enough, correct?
When looking into the thread about RPi3 it rather complicated to enable HW acceleration.
I thought it was maybe just a matter of the ffmpeg revision.
I still wonder that He acceleration is not enabled by default for Intel in FFMPEG and the libs.
It's seems not an exotic technology but a standard for Intel CPUs.
But maybe my view on Linux is too simple.
Unfortunately I have not enough time and patience to follow the hard way of self compiling all the libs.
So I most likely have to wait until a more easy solution is available for ZM on Intel server.
Maybe I will give h264 pass-through a chance to reduce load.
Thanks anyway.
Happy new year!
Uwe
So I understand that just changing the version of ffmpeg may not be good enough, correct?
When looking into the thread about RPi3 it rather complicated to enable HW acceleration.
I thought it was maybe just a matter of the ffmpeg revision.
I still wonder that He acceleration is not enabled by default for Intel in FFMPEG and the libs.
It's seems not an exotic technology but a standard for Intel CPUs.
But maybe my view on Linux is too simple.
Unfortunately I have not enough time and patience to follow the hard way of self compiling all the libs.
So I most likely have to wait until a more easy solution is available for ZM on Intel server.
Maybe I will give h264 pass-through a chance to reduce load.
Thanks anyway.
Happy new year!
Uwe