I am quite happy with how NVenc accellerated video transcoding works on my Peertube instance, but the binary Nvidia drivers are a real PITA often requiring server restarts etc.

Since I have a more power efficient server with a reasonably new version of Intel Quicksync (Version 6), so I am wondering if that wouldn’t be sufficient for regular video transcoding?

Anyone got that working already and could share some experiences?

I could still use the Nvidia card for an external runner to do other neat stuff like voice transscription on a less uptime critical server then.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netOP
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    26 days ago

    Thanks for the explanation. That permission issue sounds indeed a bit annoying. With NVenc the nvidia CUDA toolkit for containers takes care of such annoyances, but I expected it to be less easy with Quicksync.

    Maybe it is worth submitting an upstream PR to their Dockerfile that always changes permissions on these files?