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Hardware Acceleration

Enables hardware acceleration for processing.

  • none: hardware acceleration is disabled
  • nvidia: Cuda and NVenc hardware acceleration (windows and linux only)
  • amd: AMD Advanced Media Framework (AMF) hardware acceleration (windows and linux only)
  • qsv: Intel QSV hardware acceleration. Uses full decoding and encoding qsv acceleration if no other video filters enabled (i.e. recompress only)
  • vaapi: Video Acceleration API hardware acceleration (linux only)
  • macos: MacOS Video Toolbox hardware acceleration (macos only)

Important (Linux)

The VAAPI device /dev/dri/renderD128 is used by default. To override this, set the EFFY_VAAPI_DEVICE environment variable.
Refer to FFmpeg VAAPI page for more details.