Many such devices have dedicated hardware for decoding h. Its my understanding that the latest cyberlink powerdirector 14 added hardware accelerated h. It looked pretty good, but i tried the same test with handbrake using h. Cheapest amd or nvidia series of cards that support hevc. Has anyone used the gtx 960 dedicated hardware decoding for h. Uhdkit is a proprietary software video encoding library targeted at optimizing video quality and turnaround time when encoding video for ott and live streaming. Cuda is a parallel computing platform and programming model invented by nvidia. Hardware decoding vs software decoding in 4k h264h265 video. Now pavtube video converter ultimate supports converting videodvdbluray in h. Compared with average hevc converting software, its more efficient to built a hevc hardware decoder into chips to decode h. Now, you know a thing or two about the differences between hardware decoding and software decoding and their respective advantages. High efficiency video coding hevc, also known as h. Consequently, hardware decoding has an edge over software decoding in this round. Cinemartin, working with nvidia, has released what they claim to be the worlds fastest software based hevc h.
If the client is macos high sierra or better, it will revert to software decoding for h. Improve media app performance with hardware acceleration. But know that hardware encoding is inferior quality to software, sometimes very significantly. What platforms and devices are supported for gpu encoding mcebuddy supports intel quicksync, nvidia nvenccuda and amd vceamf which are used for decoding and encoding h. The igpu on your desktop is too old and didnt come with the chip. Broadcaster software obs, encoding being completely offloaded to nvenc. From above diagram, we can see that for fast hardware h. As building blocks, uhdkit deploys the opensource encoders x264, x265 and svtav1 to encode incoming uncompressed video in accordance with avc h. In this project we designed an alternative architecture and programming model for video decoding and playback applications on mobile systems that combines hardware and software modules. The vp codecs are also common on android phones with vp8 more common than v. However, you can still try to enable it manually by following the steps below.
The proposed model results in a flexible, and at the same time, power and area efficient solution. Both the encoder and the decoder are likely to be heavily optimized. Dec 01, 2015 but, most software wont work with it yet. In our previous article, we have talked about how to encode h. Your desktop doesnt have the intel igpu encoder chip capable of using hardware to encode h. Nvencbased video encoding is faster and consumes less power than legacy cudabased or cpubased encoding. To use intel quicksync, see faq 2 for driver details for h. Theyre calling it the pmodule for parallelism, and in a statement revealed that it encodes at 4k at 2x realtime speed. Hw accelerated encode and decode are supported on nvidia geforce, quadro.
However if i playback videos encoded with hevc, which both of my gpus do not support confirmed with dxva checker, i see over 50% cpu utilization on a amd x4 in the htpc and about 1820% on the 5820k. Best h265 gpu accelerated video conversion software. If the host does not have the capability to encode in h. Nvidia video codec sdk a comprehensive set of api including. And with the current beta versions, if a discrete gpu is enabled on a system that has both discrete and integrated graphics enabled, then only the discrete gpu or the gpu that has been selected for hardware acceleration in. The same movie utilizing gpu acceleration from my geforce 970 and doing h. For example, videos encoded in the divx hevc profile within converter will maintain the. If you decide to spring for x265, take a look at the latest tools when you update. Dec 30, 2012 the high efficiency video coding hevc standard will be ratified in january 20, but qualcomm already showcased h.
But decoding hevc using software consumes more cpu power. The 1 coding project idea guaranteed to get you a software development job duration. It can offer fast converting video speed with nvidia cuda amd gpu acceleration technology by h. Click format dropdown bar, scroll down to select common. Did a few tests and wondershare does not do any gpu accelerated hvec h. I mean, even on my old sandy bridge i7 i can crank out videos using quicksync in excess of 400 fps sometimes but the actual resulting video just looks like stir fried shit, so to speak. Also, it has been shown that android devices even when using seriously fast quad and octacore cpus cant do it fluently without a hardware decoder capable of accelerating 10bit h. Dec 03, 2018 weve tested and picked out the best h. In comparison to avc, hevc offers from 25% to 50% better data compression at the same level of video quality, or substantially improved video quality at the. Deliver pristine video quality and 4kp60 encoding and abr streaming by using ittiams i265 the only hevc h. The decoder includes hdr processing algorithms that allow realtime pq hdr10 to hlg, hlg to pq hdr10 and pq hdr10 to sdr conversion. Power consumption will get sharply increased in software decoding, almost 7688mw for 1080p and 14400mw for 4k 2160p video.
The core is designed for troublefree soc integration. Captures within professional applications with an approximate 3% performance impact in. The unique allinone api for seamless access to software encoding integrates intel quick sync video, nvenc hardware encoding, as well as hybrid gpu. Hw accelerated encode and decode are supported on nvidia geforce, quadro, tesla, and. Cheapest amd or nvidia series of cards that support hevc decoding. To optimize processing power and freeup compute resources on supported lowerend systems, the decoder offers a dxva option to utilize gpu power for accelerated hevc h. To encode videos to hevc utilizing nvidia gpu hardware acceleration with pavtube video converter, you need to make sure your computer is geared up with h. This post shows how to use staxrip, a free tool, to reencode h. Completly free and libre software, ensuring freedom for everyone. Though hopefully nvidia soon releases a low end 10xx series gpu thatll have the same hevc decoding features. Apr 12, 2015 has anyone used the gtx 960 dedicated hardware decoding for h. I use chrome as the browser and verified that the gpu is doing the hardware decoding of the video, but i guess it cant keep up. Optimized for streaming, recording, and sharing gameplay, amds polarisbased gpus ship ready to encode and decode at up to 4k 60fps using h.
I wonder if theyre using gpu shaders to assist the video decode block with h. The problem is that most socs today dont have vpus supporting this new standard, and the cpu are not quite powerful enough for 1080p decoding, and software decoding via cpu will require a lot of energy, and quickly drain battery. Figure 3 shows how the gpu has progressed over the past 5 generations, becoming more and more relevant. On modern android phones, does video decoding use h. Dec 30, 2017 both the encoder and the decoder are likely to be heavily optimized. Power optimized hw encode decode hevc intel software. For full hardwre you are looking at either a nvidia 950 960 or the newer 1070 or 1080 gpus. This means that a video file encoded with hevc can occupy half the space of its h. The core complies with the monochrome, main, main 10, and optionally the monochrome 12, main 4. Following diagram represents support for the nvidia pascal gpu family.
Click tools options, in the opened options window, click acceleration menu, then check enable gpu encode acceleration otpion so that the program will accelerate converion speed when encoding videobluraydvd to h. Jan 15, 2015 i wonder if theyre using gpu shaders to assist the video decode block with h. For 4k video, youre limited by gpus that support hdmi 2. So, not a lot of software supports that feature yet hardware accelerated h. High efficiency video coding implementations and products covers the implementations and. The software upgrade will include uhdcode, a very handy hevc decoder that you can use to render. This thread is a quick compilation of the faqs being asked around and answered related to gpu and hardware encoding 1. On october 23, 20, ittiam demonstrated its low power hevc decoder optimized for arm mali gpu compute and arm cortexa. Higher encoding efficiency 15% lower bitrate than pascal. It requires highend server systems to do 4k60p live conversion. With multithreading technology and adaptive singleinstructionmultipledata simd optimized algorithms, lentoiddec can acheive realtime decoding of up to 2160p videos on current. We recently got our hands on a prealpha build of x265, an hevc encoder project from a. It takes quite a lot of cpu power to decode a 4k stream until we get a hardware software solution that can decode hevc on. The decoder has been tested with more than 3000 industry standard test streams and is compatible with any asicfpgasoftware encoders in the market.
The extent to which the different programs seedont see the card is frustrating. Hw accelerated encode and decode are supported on nvidia geforce, quadro, tesla, and grid products with fermi, kepler, maxwell and pascal generation gpus. If the above happens, it is most likely due to the fact that the xprotect mobile server 2017 r2 and older versions does not officially offer support for h. As far as i know, its the only fully hardware decoding solution on the market. By default, all media files in our tools are decoded in softwareonly mode. If enabled, we will try the gpupowered decoder first. To benefit from this feature, it must be supported and enabled on both the vda and citrix receiver for windows. Video encode and decode gpu support matrix nvidia developer. Nvidia video codec sdk get started nvidia developer. And if you target at excellent quality, you will easily reach the hardwares limits. My crusty old htpc is from 2010 and cant play anything 4k or any h. If the client is a windows computer or android device, and it doesnt have the h. Videos encoded with hevc will maintain the same highquality as the equivalent h.
High efficiency video coding implementations and products. Im not ready to trade in my gtx 770, but im curious about the h. Blackmagic forum view topic gpu accelerated hevc is. The decoder has been tested with more than 3000 industry standard test streams and is compatible with any asicfpga software encoders in the market.
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