[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] NVENC: Nvidia H264/HEVC GPU encoder

[Ilkka Ollakka]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 10:43:43AM +0200, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> Ilkka,

Hi,

> > Also how does this behave if I have 2 parallel encoding processes
> > running? Other one goes to nvenc, but how does the second one behave?


> Not sure what you mean here.

> If I run two parallel vlc process both encoding using NVENC and a software
> encoder for audio, than it both streams get encoded just fine.
> This will of course depend on GPU resources, so your mileage may vary.


Is there some GPU resource limit that affects how many parallel
processes can be in use? Is it possible to check it and more
importantly, inform user in case we reach that limit 'you ran out of gpu,
please call your local dealer' ?

This might come just from me not being that familiar with internals of
gpu encoding stuff, but I don't really know how they internally allocate
things between multiple processes trying to do gpu encoding. So is it
depending on amount of parallel encodes, or profiles/resolutions tried
to encode in parallel or some other factor?

-- 
Ilkka Ollakka
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has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
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