[home-manager on Non-NixOS] How can I install ffmpeg with NVIDIA GPU Hardware Acceleration support?

justinas · November 11, 2022, 2:06pm

The comment is outdated. nvenc is in fact enabled in ffmpeg-full on Linux amd64:

NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/872fceeed60ae6b7766cc0a4cd5bf5901b9098ec/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg-full/default.nix#L109


      
          , libxcb ? null # X11 grabbing using XCB
          , libxcbshmExtlib ? true # X11 grabbing shm communication
          , libxcbxfixesExtlib ? true # X11 grabbing mouse rendering
          , libxcbshapeExtlib ? true # X11 grabbing shape rendering
          , libXv ? null # Xlib support
          , libXext ? null # Xlib support
          , libxml2 ? null # libxml2 support, for IMF and DASH demuxers
          , xz ? null # xz-utils
          , nv-codec-headers ? null
          , nvdec ? !stdenv.isDarwin && !stdenv.isAarch64 # NVIDIA NVDEC support
          , nvenc ? !stdenv.isDarwin && !stdenv.isAarch64 # NVIDIA NVENC support
          , openal ? null # OpenAL 1.1 capture support
          , ocl-icd ? null # OpenCL ICD
          , opencl-headers ? null # OpenCL headers
          , opencore-amr ? null # AMR-NB de/encoder & AMR-WB decoder
          #, opencv ? null # Video filtering
          , openglExtlib ? false, libGL ? null, libGLU ? null # OpenGL rendering
          , openh264 ? null # H.264/AVC encoder
          , openjpeg ? null # JPEG 2000 de/encoder
          , opensslExtlib ? false, openssl ? null
          , libpulseaudio ? null # Pulseaudio input support

github.com

NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/872fceeed60ae6b7766cc0a4cd5bf5901b9098ec/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg-full/default.nix#L388


      
          (enableFeature (libwebp != null) "libwebp")
          (enableFeature (libX11 != null && libXv != null && libXext != null) "xlib")
          (enableFeature (libxcb != null) "libxcb")
          (enableFeature libxcbshmExtlib "libxcb-shm")
          (enableFeature libxcbxfixesExtlib "libxcb-xfixes")
          (enableFeature libxcbshapeExtlib "libxcb-shape")
          (enableFeature (libxml2 != null) "libxml2")
          (enableFeature (xz != null) "lzma")
          (enableFeature nvdec "cuvid")
          (enableFeature nvdec "nvdec")
          (enableFeature nvenc "nvenc")
          (enableFeature (openal != null) "openal")
          (enableFeature (ocl-icd != null && opencl-headers != null) "opencl")
          (enableFeature (opencore-amr != null && version3Licensing) "libopencore-amrnb")
          #(enableFeature (opencv != null) "libopencv")
          (enableFeature openglExtlib "opengl")
          (enableFeature (openh264 != null) "libopenh264")
          (enableFeature (openjpeg != null) "libopenjpeg")
          (enableFeature (opensslExtlib && gplLicensing) "openssl")
          (enableFeature (libpulseaudio != null) "libpulse")
          #(enableFeature quvi "libquvi")

I can’t say I’ve tried it with non-NixOS though.