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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
  1. 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
  1. 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/
  1. Check installation
gst-inspect-1.0 | grep nvenc
gst-inspect-1.0 | grep nvdec

References

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