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

Do you have a receipt for meson builds? 1.22 for instance is not having that ./autogen/make anymore

Do you have a receipt for meson builds? 1.22 for instance is not having that ./autogen/make anymore

The same question.

Do you have a receipt for meson builds? 1.22 for instance is not having that ./autogen/make anymore

The same question.

Before I abandoned all attempts I found, that it is possible to change into subprojects/gst-plugins-bad and build from there

(I tried to compile on Jetson Nano, couldn't make it to have nvh264enc on Ubuntu 20.04, CUDA 12 and GST 1.22, I suppose this is not going to work at all since it would require a GST fork, which is made for the Jetson GPU)