Hardware acceleration support for VDH and coapp

[Patrick S.]

Hi there,

I'm using the newest VDH 7.3.6 addon with the newest coapp 1.2.4 on Windows 10 on Firefox 67.0.2.

But the aggregation/conversion seems slow to me.

100% CPU utilization and the GPU part does nothing, i.e. it idles.

So please integrate hardware acceleration support of Intel QSV, AMD and Nvidia GPU acceleration support.

I think you just need to use/integrate the newest video frameworks in coapp in oder to get support for this, like FFMPEG, etc.

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards from Germany,

Patrick S.

[Erwin Panen]

Hi Patrick,

Have you in any way succeeded in using GPU support with VideoDownloadHelper?

I'm on mac and using an older macmini (i7 cpu) but I have also external Nvidia GPU (eGPU).

Each time I'm using VideoDownloadHelper, I see / hear the CPU's fan rev up, and ffmpeg spike to several 100%.

And the eGPU does no work unfortunately.

I have searched and found that it seems possible to compile ffmpeg to use eGPU, but being not familiar with all this, I'm looking for deeper information / confirmation that this is the way to go?

Thanks for your input!

(Firefox Quantum 69.0 (64-bit) and VDH 7.3.7 with VdhCoApp 1.3.0)

[Wild Willy]

Aggregation IS slow when you don't have a VDH license.  This is explained in multiple places in this forum.  Do some searches.

[Trelligan]

I've done searches, and I have a VDH license. I would very much like to use my expensive GPU if it would speed up transcoding (& aggregating if applicable)

   I understand that VDH and the Companion App don't actually decide whether to use my GPU vice CPU, that's up to FFMPEG as installed on my system.

   I just thought that the wise and kind people on this forum might have information already that could be relevant.