Recording TV - Vaapi - Does not appear to work

[PenkethBoy 2068]

I have been trying to get Vaapi to work on my QNAP 853A

 

I have set it to Vaapi in the Transcoding section and have it set to /dev/dri/renderD128

 

In the DVR section i have set the option to convert to mkv

 

I have enabled Hardware encoding as i want Vaapi to be used with Transcoding TV recordings as the NAS is not capable of recording two show as mkv at the same time at an acceptable speed

 

Am i missing something?

 

Couple of example files and log

record-transcode-ef9e851e-0cf9-4034-a542-c5dfff717d54.txt

record-transcode-efe8331f-caf5-4f65-b7d7-d4b762469520.txt

server-63656841600.txt

 

 

[Luke 42077]

We don't use it for the recording conversion feature. It will be used for regular playback though.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Ok - out of interest if thats the case what is hardware encoding used for?

 

and no its not being used in playback either

 

ffmpeg-transcode-2a6afb2f-e979-4678-b05f-75968dda03d4.txt

[Luke 42077]

There see certain kinds of files it can't be used with so assuming you've actually enabled it that's probably the reason.

 

The converting feature is soon to be deprecated once we have a feature to convert after the recording. It's just too unstable to convert on the fly.