| 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 |
