Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-06-01 07:32, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The graphics card is not used at all when converting videos to another format. Only when displaying that video.
A graphics card's GPUs might well be used during encoding/decoding/conversion. For instance, ffmpeg is able to use vaapi.
Paul, your systems are virtual identical. To test if it is an issue with the graphics card, it might be worth swapping the graphics cards. Also try "vainfo" to see if video hardware acceleration is in use/available.
Uh, with Nvidia cards, it's called VDPAU instead of VAAPI, I don't know if vainfo is aware or if there is a dedicated utility for vdpau.
I don't even have vainfo installed. :-?
Do you have Intel Graphics? If not, there's no point.
vainfo comes with "vaapi-tools" which is really for Intel Graphics only. I'm sure there must be something similar for Nvidia.
I have no idea about that. There is a "vdpauinfo" here. It prints a page of information, but nothing about ffmpeg using it or not. :-?
No, vdpauinfo would not know about the applications, it's about the hardware.
"man ffmpeg" has nothing about nvidia. There is a mention about vdpau, though:
vdpau is to a large extent = nvidia. Nvidia wrote the original interface.
Note that it is not enabled by default, and only used for playback, and that it says: "will not be faster than software decoding on modern CPUs"
It works wonders for playing HDTV streams from mythtv. On a somewhat modern Intel CPU. Without it, HDTV is generally impossible. YMMV. More modern CPUs might be better, dunno. A lot of HPC is done on GPUs these days, so they're good for something. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org