[Cin] LIMITED Hardware Acceleration using the GPU Encoding/Rendering checked in

[Pierre autourduglobe]

Yes, very limited, as possibilities.... Only the integrated GPUs of the 
latest generation Intel CPUs are supported. This is obviously useful 
with recent laptops equipped with Intel processors, but for desktops 
that often have an added GPU card; more powerful and offering support 
for more monitors, no support is possible.

To the extent that GPUs seem to give a lower rendering quality, it may 
not be a very big loss... But rendering the Timeline in real time for 
immediate and more fluid viewing of several layers of filters and 
effects would be useful and desirable if GPUs could be used more.


On 19-05-07 13 h 47, Phyllis Smith wrote:
> *If you have an Intel computer with Intel graphics board and render to 
> mp4, you can take advantage of this.*
> 
> We have no hardware to test Intel computer with Nvidia graphics board 
> but are assuming that it will not work.  An AMD computer with the Nvidia 
> graphics board installed does not work (not implemented).  If you can 
> prove me wrong, I would really like to hear that!
> 
> The following URL, although not generic for all operating systems, does 
> provide a Comparison tables for ascertaining whether or not the VA-API 
> will work for your specific hardware. /Do not be fooled by the GE Force 
> listed in the Decoding section /-- it does not appear in the Encoding 
> section.  The table is about 2/3 of the way down the article.
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration
> 
> @Ubuntu16 users: there is a test build at:
> 
> https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/testing/cinelerra-5.1-ub16-x86_64-static.txz
> 
> @Pierre: if someone lets us know that it works on an Intel computer with 
> Nvidia graphics, gg will make a Mint18 build but otherwise prepare to be 
> disappointed. :)
>