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diff --git a/sys/nvenc/README b/sys/nvenc/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..62a52d198 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys/nvenc/README @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +This plugin is intended for use with NVIDIA hardware. Specifically, the NVENC +block available in recent NVIDIA GPU hardware. This is provided by a +libnvidia-encode library provided by NVIDIA graphic drivers. + +Requirements +------------ +Cuda > 6.5 +NVENC 5.0 + +See https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk for a list of +supported GPU's. + +Building +-------- +1. Retrieve the NVENC SDK +from https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk +- http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/nvenc/v5.0/nvenc_5.0.1_sdk.zip +2. unzip this somewhere and retreive or note the location of the +nvEncodeAPI.h under nvenc_api-5.0.1/Samples/common/inc/ +3. Retreive a version of cuda from +https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads and install somewhere noting +the installation prefix (typically /opt/cuda or /usr/local/cuda) +4. Now that the dependencies are sorted, there are a couple of +environment variables and/or or configure arguments that are needed to +detect the necessary libraries/headers. + +More information is available from the following locations + +[1] - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads +[2] - https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk |