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HW Transcoding- VAAPI Artifacting


linds1234

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linds1234

Hi All,

 

I run the latest version of Emby Server in a docker. Host is OMV 3.x (Debian 8). 

 

I was curious to enable Hardware Encoding to lighten the load on the CPU when it's transcoding for external clients. With VAAPI enabled it only uses 6-10% CPU, without it's 75-90%.

 

Problem is with VAAPI Hardware enabled, the video will constantly be artifacting.

 

The CPU is a 2500K.

 

Looking at the ffmpeg logs, it looks to be version 4.0.1

 

Any known fixes for this?

 

Cheers,

Lindsay

 

 

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Actually, maybe I'm just expecting too much. In this case I'm limiting the bitrate to either 3 or 4Mbit as my upload is 5Mbit at the moment.

 

Tested media is ~5Mbit. Software encode handles 2-4Mbit OK, the difference is the quality of a software decode is consistently "average" at these bitrate vs a HW decode where the quality is good with blocky artifacts every few seconds if that makes sense.

 

Might just be normal for HW encodes at these low rates.

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