GPU advantage

[trumee]

Hello,

Is there any advantage of using an Nvidia GPU with zoneminder? I want to reduce the CPU usage without reducing the resolution or frame rate.

Thanks

[BaconButty]

Not exactly the answer you're looking for, but I used the GPU cores in my AMD APU to lower my CPU usage by about 20%. So it will lower it, but not a huge amount. For 5 cameras, it was good enough to get my usage down from tipping 100% to 70-80%.

Just go into the cameras settings and you can enable hardware decoding under source-> DecoderHWAccelName. Look up the name for the nVidea decoder you want to use. nVidea hardware decoding is generally better supported, so you might get better results.

[burger]

Search the forums with term 'GPU'. this has been answered multiple times, e.g.
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=29029&hilit=gpu