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Link to instruction to produce ffmpeg 4 plus the libraries on Ubuntu
that support nVidia GPU acceleration. Tested on Mint 19.1.
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our support for hardware acceleration in OpenShot. Please help us update
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this document if you find an error or discover some new information.
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**Desperately Needed:** A way to compile ffmpeg 4.0 and up with working nVidia
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hardware acceleration support on Ubuntu Linux!
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**Desperately Needed:** The manual at:
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https://www.tal.org/tutorials/ffmpeg_nvidia_encode
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works pretty well. I could compile and install a version of ffmpeg 4.1.3
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on Mint 19.1 that supports the GPU on nVidia cards. A version of openshot
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with hardware support using these libraries could use the nVidia GPU.
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(A way to compile ffmpeg 4.0 and up with working nVidia
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hardware acceleration support on Ubuntu Linux!)
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**BUG:** Hardware supported decoding still has a bug. The speed gains with
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decoding are by far not as great as with encoding. In case hardware accelerated

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