Install NVDEC and NVENC as GStreamer plugins

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Install NVDEC and NVENC as GStreamer plugins

Environment

• Ubuntu 18.04
• NVIDIA driver 460.32.03
• NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 11.0.10
• GStreamer 1.14.5

Steps

1. Clone the gst-plugins-bad and check out to the same version as GStreamer installed on your PC

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad
cd gst-plugins-bad/
git checkout 1.14.5

2. Download NVIDIA Video Codec SDK and copy header files

cd /path/to/video/codec/sdk
cp /usr/local/cuda/include/cuda.h /path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc
cp Interface/nvEncodeAPI.h /path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc
cp Interface/cuviddec.h /path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvdec
cp Interface/nvcuvid.h /path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvdec

3. Build plugins

cd /path/to/gst-plugins-bad
NVENCODE_CFLAGS="-I/path/to/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc" ./autogen.sh --with-cuda-prefix="/usr/local/cuda" --disable-gtk-doc
cd sys/nvenc
make
sudo cp .libs/libgstnvenc.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/
cd ../nvdec
make
sudo cp .libs/libgstnvdec.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/

4. Check installation

gst-inspect-1.0 | grep nvenc
gst-inspect-1.0 | grep nvdec

References

• DeepStream ContainerでH264ハードウエアエンコーダーを使う

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnvidia-encode

i got error when make in sys/nvenc

cannot find -lnvcuvid

and onther error in sys/nvdec

If you downloaded SDK 10 from nvidia-SDK you can find both .so inside Lib/linux/stubs/x86_64/ (for ubuntu18).
The correct way is probably to move both files to its corresponding locations. But what I did was to add "-L/path/to/nvidia-sdk/Lib/linux/stubs/x86_64/" to the variable "NVENCODE_LIBS" for sys/nvenc/Makefile and to the variable "libgstnvdec_la_LIBADD" for sys/nvdec/Makefile.

The below procesure fails on wsl2 over windows 11.

1. There is probably a missing "make" after the ./autogen.sh. But running make fails with an error.
2. gst-xxx are in /usr/lib/ but anyway we dont get there is make fails.

https://gist.github.com/corenel/a615b6f7eb5b5425aa49343a7b409200

$ cd Downloads
$ mkdir gstreamer
$ cd gstreamer

step 1

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad
cd gst-plugins-bad/
git checkout 1.14.5

step 2

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk/download

/home/mickey/Downloads/gstreamer/Video_Codec_SDK_11.1.5

cd /home/mickey/Downloads/gstreamer/Video_Codec_SDK_11.1.5
cp /usr/local/cuda/include/cuda.h /home/mickey/Downloads/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc/
cp Interface/nvEncodeAPI.h /home/mickey/Downloads/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc/
cp Interface/cuviddec.h /home/mickey/Downloads/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc/
cp Interface/nvcuvid.h /home/mickey/Downloads/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc/

step 3

cd /home/mickey/Downloads/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
NVENCODE_CFLAGS="-I/home/mickey/Downloads/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc/" ./autogen.sh --with-cuda-prefix="/usr/local/cuda" --disable-gtk-doc
make # fails
error: #error This file requires compiler and library support for the ISO C++ 2011 standard. This support must be enabled with the -std=c++11 or -std=gnu++11 compiler options.

cd /home/mickey/Downloads/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/sys/nvenc
make
#sudo cp .libs/libgstnvenc.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/
sudo cp .libs/libgstnvenc.so /usr/lib
cd ../nvdec
make
#sudo cp .libs/libgstnvdec.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/
sudo cp .libs/libgstnvdec.so /usr/lib/

For future reference -
@tadam98 known issue that I ran into building on 20.04. Seemingly wasn't resolved? The hotfix is to remove references to openexr in the ./ext/Makefile (who uses openexr files anyway lol)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/-/issues/1117

Edit: this also is only an issue if you don't cd into /sys/nvenc and simply build from the root ... I guess I'm not the only one to miss that part?