If you are looking to make use of the dedicated decoding/encoding hardware on your GPU in an existing application you can leverage the integration already available in FFmpeg. FFmpeg should be used for evaluation or quick integration, but it may not provide control over every encoder parameter. NVDECODE and NVENCODE APIs should be used for low-level granular control over various encode/decode parameters and if you want to directly tap into the hardware decoder/encoder. This access is available through the Video Codec SDK.
Complete Video Codec SDK 12.0 Package
Video Codec SDK 12.0 Header Files
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FFMPEG is a cross-platforms solution to record, convert, and stream audio and video. FFMPEG supports video hardware acceleration on NVIDIA GPUs.
- Hardware acceleration for most popular video framework
- Leverages FFmpeg’s Audio codec, stream muxing, and RTP protocols
- Available for Windows, Linux
- You can now use FFMPEG to accelerate video encoding and decoding using NVENC and NVDEC, respectively.
Learn more about FFMPEG
What’s new in Video Codec SDK 12.0
- Support for AV1 encoding on NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture.
- Up to 8k 60fps encoding for AV1 and HEVC formats on select Ada GPUs.
- Click here for additional information
System Requirements for Video Codec SDK 12.0
Documentation and Samples
For convenience, NVDECODE API documentation and sample applications are also included in the CUDA Toolkit, in addition to the Video Codec SDK download package.
Note: For Video Codec SDK 7.0 and later, NVCUVID has been renamed to NVDECODE API.
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FAQ
A: After you download the SDK, please refer to the «ReadMe.txt» which lists the minimum required display driver version. You need to install the right drivers or else the SDK will fail to start and this is the first thing you should check in case there is an initialization failure.
A: We strongly recommend all application developers to go through the programming guides in detail before writing any application. In particular, for some hints on this question, please go through the following sections in the documentation. These sections provide valuable tips for optimizing latency/memory utilization and choosing the right settings for different use-cases.
- «Recommended NVENC Settings» in NVECODE API Programming Guide, included in the Video Codec SDK
- «Writing an Efficient Decode Application» in NVDECODE API Programming Guide, included in the Video Codec SDK
A: Video encoding latency consists of two components: (a) Latency due to encoding algorithm (e.g. B-frames, look-ahead, VBV buffering), and (b) Latency due to the processing required to encode the bits using hardware or software. For a typical end-to-end streaming scenario to incur low latency, it is important to lower both components as much as possible. Typically, latency in (a) can be minimized by choosing infinite GOP with IPPPP… structure, no look-ahead and lowest possible VBV buffer for the given bitrate and available channel bandwidth, without giving away too much of encoding quality. Each of these can all be set via NVENCODE API. In Video SDK 10.0 and above, setting the tuning info to low-latency or ultra-low-latency will set most of these parameters automatically. Latency contributed by (b) can be minimized by choosing the correct preset, and rate control mode with correct number of rate control passes. Naturally, 2-pass requires more time to encode than 1-pass rate control mode. Running quarter-resolution first pass requires less time than running both passes at full resolution.
In addition to the above, the overall encoding latency is also affected by efficient application design (or lack thereof). Since NVENC can run in parallel to CUDA and graphics workload, it is important to ensure that the NVENC pipeline is kept fed with data and the context switches between NVENC pre-processing (which uses small amount of CUDA bandwidth) and other graphics/CUDA workload are minimized. The specifics of this depend on the workload, but should be analyzed using a tool such as GPUView (available as a part of Windows Performance Toolkit).
A: The Video Codec SDK provides samples specifically designed to give optimal performance. Please refer to applications with suffix «…perf» inside the Video Codec SDK. User can run these applications for measuring maximum throughput. The samples in the Optical Flow SDK are optimized for performance.
A: First of all, it is important to note that the aggregate video encoding performance of GPUs is not solely defined by the raw number of NVENCs on the GPU silicon. As anyone familiar with video encoding will know, talking about video encoding performance without any reference to encoding quality is meaningless. For example, one can encode a video at blazing fast speed, without any regard to quality and claim extremely high performance, doubling the performance on GPUs with multiple NVENC engines. But such usage may not be of much use in practical situations. Therefore, it is important to think of encoding performance at a specific quality. NVIDIA encoding benchmarks use the bitrate savings compared with open source encoders x264 and x265’s medium preset output, as a measure of the encoding quality. The performance vs. quality spectrum thus obtained is published for various generations of GPUs on Video Codec SDK web site. Most of the commonly used presets on Pascal have an equivalent preset in Turing with similar quality and 2x performance, thereby making it possible to get the same performance from both GPU generations, despite Turing GPUs having only 1 NVENC engine. This requires the application to choose appropriate encoding settings, depending upon the GPU in use. For low-latency presets and tuning, Turing NVENC provides equivalent settings to achieve higher performance per NVENC than Pascal NVENC for latency tolerant encoding. For latency-sensitive (low-latency) encoding, Turing NVENC does not provide 2x performance, but that’s not needed because most of the low-latency scenarios are bottlenecked by the graphics/CUDA utilization and not NVENC utilization.
In short, despite the reduction of number of NVENCs from Pascal to Turing, one should be able to achieve equivalent encoding performance per GPU, in most practical use cases by adjusting the encoding settings to normalize the encoding quality.
A: NVENCODE API expose APIs which allow users to query the maximum API versions supported by the underlying driver. Depending on the maximum API version supported by driver, the application can launch code at runtime compiled with the appropriate API.
A: For decoder, please refer to the NVDEC application note included in the SDK documentation to get an idea about performance. For encoder, the answer depends on many factors, some of which include: GPU in use and its clock speed, settings used for encoding (i.e. encode quality), memory bandwidth available, application design. It is especially important to note that GPU encoding performance is always tied to the encoding quality, and the performance can vary greatly depending upon the chosen settings. For example, B-frames, 2-pass rate control mode, or look-ahead will improve the encoding quality at the cost of performance. Encoding presets also influence quality vs performance trade-off significantly. Please refer to the table containing indicative performance figures for the video encoder in NVENC application note included in the SDK package.
A: Create separate Cuda streams for encode and decode. For NVDECODEAPI and NVENCODEAPI you can specify the stream where you want to Cuda kernels using CUVIDPROCPARAMS::output_stream and NvEncSetIOCudaStreams(..) respectively.
Additional Resources
- Download older legacy versions of NVENC SDK and Video Codec SDK
- Download CUDA Toolkit
- Download FFmpeg
- Download Video Test Sources (YUV RAW 1080p Files — Heavy Hand video input)
- Blog — Optimizing Video Memory Usage with NVDECODE API and NVIDIA Video Codec SDK
- Blog — Turing H.264 Video Encoding Speed and Quality
- Blog — New GeForce-Optimized OBS and RTX Encoder Enables Pro-Quality Broadcasting on a Single PC
- GitHub Streamline live streaming system reference design
7.15 (February 5, 2023)
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7.15
Add filters using NVIDIA MAXINE VideoEffects SDK. (Windows x64 only)
These filters requires Turing Gen GPU (RTX20xx) or later.
Please download and install Video Effect models and runtime dependencies to use these filters.
Also there are restriction to the input resolution, please check the link below.
—vpp-nvvfx-denoise
—vpp-nvvfx-artifact-reduction
—vpp-resize nvvfx-superres
Update ffmpeg libraries. (Windows)
ffmpeg 5.0 -> 5.1
libpng 1.3.8 -> 1.3.9
expat 2.4.4 -> 2.5.0
libsndfile 1.0.31 -> 1.2.0
libxml2 2.9.12 -> 2.10.3
libbluray 1.3.0 -> 1.3.4
dav1d 0.9.2 -> 1.0.0
Fix PGS subtitles not muxed properly using —sub-source.
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Main usable functions
Common to NVEnc / NVEncC
Encoding using NVENC
H.264 / AVC
YUV420 / YUV444
H.265 / HEVC (2nd Gen Maxwell or later)
YUV420 / YUV444
10 bits
Each encode mode of NVENC
CQP (fixed quantization)
CBR (Constant bitrate)
CBRHQ (Constant bitrate, high quality)
VBR (Variable bitrate)
VBRHQ (Variable bitrate, high quality)
Interlaced encoding (by PAFF)
Lossless output (YUV 420 / YUV 444)
supports setting of codec profile & level, SAR, colormatrix, maxbitrate, GOP len, etc…
NVEncC
Supports cuvid decoding
MPEG1
MPEG2
H.264 / AVC
HEVC (10 bit / 12bitdepth with YUV444 support)
VP9
Supports various formats such as avs, vpy, y4m, and raw
Supports demux/muxing using libavformat
Supports decode using libavcodec
High performance filtering (VPP, Video Pre-Processing)
cuvid built-in hw processing
resize
deinterlace (normal / bob)
GPU filtering by CUDA
rff (apply rff flag)
deinterlacer
afs (Automatic field shift)
nnedi
yadif
colorspace conversion (x64 version only)
hdr2sdr
delogo
subburn
resize
bilinear
spline16, spline36, spline64
lanczos2, lanczos3, lanczos4
various algorithms by npp library are available (x64 version only)
padding
select-every
deband
noise reduction
knn (K-nearest neighbor)
pmd (modified pmd method)
gauss (npp library, x64 version only)
edge / detail enhancement
unsharp
edgelevel (edge level adjustment)
NVEnc.auo (Aviutl plugin)
Audio encoding
Mux audio and chapter
afs (Automatic field shift) support
cufilters.auf (Aviutl plugin)
supported filters
nnedi
resize
noise reduction
knn (K-nearest neighbor)
pmd (modified pmd method)
edge / detail enhancement
unsharp
edgelevel (edge level adjustment)
deband
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Rating by meister on
Apr 27, 2022 Version: 5.42
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Not sure what the previous reviewer is on about.
The vpp-warpsharp filter didn’t replace any previous filter, and it can work wonders if you use it correctly.
Review by Greg on
Feb 1, 2021 Version: 5.26
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
@Add another edge sharpening filter. (vpp-warpsharp, #294, #302 )@
This filter spoils everything, you need to return the previous one!
Please do not change these plugins.
Review by hevron on
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Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
@@@Version 5.11 is much slower than version 5.08 …………. 120 fps and 290 respectively.@@@
No speed needed for good video encoding!
Review by hevron on
Jul 20, 2020 Version: 5.11
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
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NVEnc — утилита для качественного кодирования видео, предлагающая больше эффективных инструментов, чем стандартные кодировщики на основе CPU.
Данный кодировщик работает с любыми современными форматами и разрешениями видео, гарантирует качественную кодировку и получение видео более высокого качества. Программа не повышает качество изображения, но позволяет выполнять кодировку, которая делает видео более удобным для любого последующего редактирования.
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Кодировщик NVEnc требуется для того, чтобы программы для работы с видео лучше справлялись со своими обязанностями:
- качество современного записываемого и транслируемого видео очень высокое, потому требуются мощные устройства и высокоскоростной интернет для передачи данных. Качественный кодировщик позволит лучше работать с видео, что снижает требуемые ресурсы;
- при помощи NVEnc можно лучше выполнять кодировку видео для записи с экрана при помощи программы Bandicam и подобных, а также для трансляции видео в формате стримов при помощи программы OBS;
- утилита требует минимум ресурсов и не вынудит даже обращать на себя внимания — она не загружает процессор, не требует много оперативной памяти, потому можно продолжать выполнять любые другие задачи.
Аналоги программы вы всегда можете найти в наших подборках:
NVEnc – это кодекс, при помощи которого мы можем обеспечить отличную компрессию и качество изображения. В основе лежит аппаратный механизм кодирования с использованием графического адаптера. ПО, например, работает в паре с OBS. Новейшая версия для Windows 10 может быть скачана через торрент немного ниже.
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7.15
- Add filters using NVIDIA MAXINE VideoEffects SDK. (Windows x64 only)
These filters requires Turing Gen GPU (RTX20xx) or later.
Please download and install Video Effect models and runtime dependencies to use these filters.
Also there are restriction to the input resolution, please check the link below.- —vpp-nvvfx-denoise
- —vpp-nvvfx-artifact-reduction
- —vpp-resize nvvfx-superres
- Update ffmpeg libraries. (Windows)
- ffmpeg 5.0 -> 5.1
- libpng 1.3.8 -> 1.3.9
- expat 2.4.4 -> 2.5.0
- libsndfile 1.0.31 -> 1.2.0
- libxml2 2.9.12 -> 2.10.3
- libbluray 1.3.0 -> 1.3.4
- dav1d 0.9.2 -> 1.0.0
- Fix PGS subtitles not muxed properly using —sub-source.
7.14
- Enable —bref-mode by default when preset slower than default is selected. ( #449, #458 )
- Improve lowlatency (—lowlatency) mode to improve stability of output intervals.
- Add option to attach files to output file. (—attachement-source)
- Fix bitrate and encoding speed information not collected properly with —perf-monitor.
7.13
- Improve master display metadata handling for AV1 encoding. ( #453 )
- Fix wrong metadata written when —master-display is set but —max-cll was not specified.
- Fix —audio-copy by language not working properly.
- —chromaloc can now override —dolby-vision-profile.
7.12
- Now —vpp-overlay alpha_mode=lumakey can be used with alpha.
7.11
- Now —vpp-overlay could be used multiple times.
7.10
- Add new parameters to —vpp-overlay which will set transparency based on luma. ( #444 )
7.09
- Add filter to overlay image onto base video. ( —vpp-overlay, #444 )
- Improve error message for ssim/psnr/vmaf when corresponding hw decode is not supported. ( #450 )
- Fix AV1 hw decode error. ( #445 )
7.08
- Add parameter
dropwhich will remove multiple frames within a cycle to —vpp-decimate. - Remove
-c rawsupport which was added in NVEnc 7.07.
7.07
- Add option to not encoding video and output raw frame in y4m format. (-c raw)
- Add option to set end time to encode. ( —seekto, #442 )
- Fix error caused in HEVC lossless encoding when input file is 10bit and —output-depth 10 not added.
7.06
- Fix HEVC 10bit lossless encoding not working when input is 10-16bit depth.