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docs/hw-encoding: Add a note about the conda-distributed ffmpeg on windows (#640)
Signed-off-by: Martin Pecka <[email protected]>
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# Caveats
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## FFMpeg on Windows via Conda
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The current distribution of FFMpeg via Conda for Windows does not include the h264_qsv
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encoder. It only has h264_nvenc. This means that using Intel GPUs for HW acceleration is
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not possible out of the box. A possible solution would be to build a custom build of
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ffmpeg in the workspace with gz-common. Pull requests with the relevant tutorial are
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welcome.
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## NVEnc per-machine limit
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If you have a multi-GPU station with desktop-class (not server-class) GPUs, you will

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