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Universal Blue•2w ago
Phil

Sunshine unable to use HW encoding

Hello! My server uses a GTX 980 ti so it's rather old, but it should definitely be able to encode with at least h264. I tested ffmpeg and it worked without any issues: 
bazzite@bazzite:~$ ffmpeg -hide_banner -f lavfi -i testsrc2 -t 3 -c:v h264_nvenc -f null -
Input #0, lavfi, from 'testsrc2':
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
  Stream #0:0: Video: wrapped_avframe, yuv420p, 320x240 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (wrapped_avframe (native) -> h264 (h264_nvenc))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Output #0, null, to 'pipe:':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf61.7.100
  Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main), yuv420p(tv, progressive), 320x240 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], q=2-31, 2000 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbn
      Metadata:
        encoder         : Lavc61.19.101 h264_nvenc
      Side data:
        cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/2000000 buffer size: 4000000 vbv_delay: N/A
[out#0/null @ 0x55cab1acb2c0] video:305KiB audio:0KiB subtitle:0KiB other streams:0KiB global headers:0KiB muxing overhead: unknown
frame=   75 fps=0.0 q=11.0 Lsize=N/A time=00:00:02.88 bitrate=N/A speed=28.9x
bazzite@bazzite:~$ ffmpeg -hide_banner -f lavfi -i testsrc2 -t 3 -c:v h264_nvenc -f null -
Input #0, lavfi, from 'testsrc2':
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
  Stream #0:0: Video: wrapped_avframe, yuv420p, 320x240 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (wrapped_avframe (native) -> h264 (h264_nvenc))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Output #0, null, to 'pipe:':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf61.7.100
  Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main), yuv420p(tv, progressive), 320x240 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], q=2-31, 2000 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbn
      Metadata:
        encoder         : Lavc61.19.101 h264_nvenc
      Side data:
        cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 0/0/2000000 buffer size: 4000000 vbv_delay: N/A
[out#0/null @ 0x55cab1acb2c0] video:305KiB audio:0KiB subtitle:0KiB other streams:0KiB global headers:0KiB muxing overhead: unknown
frame=   75 fps=0.0 q=11.0 Lsize=N/A time=00:00:02.88 bitrate=N/A speed=28.9x
but as you can see inside the logs, it's throwing errors like: Error: [h264_nvenc @ 0x19b9db80] Provided device doesn't support required NVENC features or Error: Couldn't initialize va display: unknown libva error I've seen this Github issue but it says the issue should be fixed, so I'm not sure if it's the same as mine. I really hope someone could help me out. I'd really appreciate it :)
1 Reply
Phil
PhilOP•2w ago
hmm weird I think the logs didn't attach, but here they are

message.txt

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