Hardware Accelerated Transcoding
Explore 28 curated Hardware Accelerated Transcoding resources in Encoding & Codecs — tools, guides, and references for video developers on Awesome Video.
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Hardware Accelerated Transcoding is a focused collection within Encoding & Codecs, with 28 curated resources.
Resources
- AMD Alveo MA35D AMA SDK 1.4.0 Release2026 SDK release notes for AMD's MA35D media accelerator: FFmpeg 7.1 support, updated OS matrix and scale-stability improvements for AV1 tr…
- CUDA GPU Accelerated h264/h265/HEVC Video Encoding with ffmpegHow to use CUDA GPU hardware encoding with ffmpeg to encode h264 and h264 HEVC movies in high quality and highspeed with our optimized para…
- Evaluation of NVENC Split-Frame Encoding (SFE) for UHD Video TranscodingAcademic evaluation of NVENC's split-frame encoding feature for UHD video transcoding throughput and quality.
- Evolution of NVENC Efficiency: Pascal to BlackwellLongitudinal academic analysis of NVENC hardware-encoder efficiency across GPU generations, including new UHQ tuning mode.
- ffmpeg-rockchip — Rockchip MPP+RGA FFmpeg ForkFFmpeg fork with async zero-copy Rockchip MPP + RGA integration, exposing h264_rkmpp/hevc_rkmpp/vp9_rkmpp codecs for full hardware transcod…
- GMAT — NVIDIA GPU media processing toolkitNVIDIA datacenter GPU video/image processing and transcode toolkit (formerly ffmpeg-gpu-demo) with smart decode and HEIF via NVENC/NVDEC.
- go-livepeer — decentralized GPU transcodingGo implementation of the Livepeer protocol with Broadcaster/Orchestrator/Transcoder roles enabling split-farm remote multi-GPU video transc…
- Granite — Vulkan engine with zero-copy GPU video decodeVulkan rendering engine with GPU video decode to RGB with no memory round-trip (ffmpeg_decode), by Hans-Kristian Arntzen.
- HandBrake Documentation — Apple VideoToolbox EncodersPractical guidance on VideoToolbox hardware encoding: available parameters, GPU pinning via gpu_registryid, and quality limits versus x264/…
- Hardware-Assisted Video Transcoding At DailymotionWhat if you could save time, power consumption and therefore money, while still keeping a decent quality for your converted video ?
- HWEncoderXDocker container for automatic H.265 video transcoding using GPU hardware acceleration (VAAPI for Intel/AMD, NVENC for NVIDIA, Intel Quick…
- Intel Quick Sync Video Hardware Transcoding on KubernetesHands-on guide to exposing Intel iGPU QSV transcoding in Kubernetes via the Intel Device Plugins Operator, covering render group permission…
- intel/media-deliveryIntel-curated drivers/utilities plus FFmpeg-QSV samples demonstrating best-practice CDN transcode on Intel GPUs, with quality/perf measurem…
- Is it possible to get FFmpeg to use hardware acceleration for HEVC transcoding on macOS?I have a MacBook Pro with a Kaby Lake processor running macOS High Sierra (10.12). Is it possibe somehow to setup FFmpeg to utilize hardwar…
- Jellyfin Hardware Acceleration DocumentationPractical guide to Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Apple and Rockchip hardware transcoding, jellyfin-ffmpeg requirements, VPP HDR10 tone mapping and re…
- kvm-mpp-sdkSafe Rust wrapper around the Rockchip MPP H.264 and H.265 hardware encoder.
- mppdarkgstRust GStreamer plugin that exposes Rockchip MPP hardware video encode and decode.
- netint_ffmpeg — FFmpeg fork for NETINT Quadra VPUsNETINT's FFmpeg fork exposing Quadra hardware encoders such as av1_ni_quadra_enc and h264/h265/jpeg_ni_quadra_enc.
- netv (GPU transcode + upscaling server)IPTV transcoding server with a zero-copy NVDEC→NVENC/VAAPI pipeline plus Real-ESRGAN TensorRT 4x upscaling.
- NVEnc / NVEncC — NVENC transcode CLIActively maintained NVENC-based transcoding CLI (NVEncC) supporting H.264/HEVC/AV1 with low-latency mode and rich hardware filtering.
- NVENC Video Encoder API Programming Guide (Video Codec SDK 13.0)Current NVENC API guide covering nvEncodeAPI.h usage, P1–P7 presets, rate control and low-latency vs high-quality tuning info.
- NVIDIA — FFmpeg hardware acceleration (NVENC/NVDEC)Official NVIDIA page on integrating FFmpeg with the Video Codec SDK, covering NVENC encode and NVDEC/CUVID decode build paths and supported…
- nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchipFFmpeg fork supporting Rockchip rkmpp hardware decode/encode and RGA scaling, Jellyfin-focused for RK35xx SoCs.
- rigaya/QSVEncIntel QuickSync (QSV) hardware encoder CLI with transcoding plus quality/performance testing; Broadwell+ Linux/Windows packages.