NVENC Kepler Plugin 0.3.0

[RanAS]

RanAS submitted a new resource:

NVENC Kepler Plugin - Adds NVENC support for Kepler and other unsupported NVIDIA cards

This plugin is essentially a fork of the existing NVENC plugin, which allows users to encode video using their NVIDIA graphics card, except this one has been downgraded to NVIDIA Video Codec SDK v11.1 which allows it to support old NVIDIA graphics cards again, like those in the Kepler series (such as GTX 650, Quadro K420, etc.). This plugin should still work with newer NVIDIA cards, but I cannot guarantee that.

Feature support will vary depending on which specific graphics card you have...

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[KattPhloxworthy]

While I have "recent-enough" hardware, having this handy is great for those people who may only have access to older Kepler-based hardware. While I started with an AMD card in an encoding position, I ended up making my first dedicated, encoding-only machine in a low-profile case, first with a GT 710, then a Kepler-based GT 730, which was my regular encoder card. I also have several Quadro K2200 and a K4200 card which I would like to test with, but I have to take care of a few things here. Once I get into a better position, I will have to give this a go and report back when I'm ready.

More soon!

--Katt. =^.^=

P.S. This is gonna happen at some point for Maxwell (GeForce 9xx series and Quadro Mxxxx series) and Pascal (GeForce 10xx and Quadro Pxxxx series) cards in about two years' time, so be ready! --KP =^.^=

 

[KevinWeatherwalks]

Thank you so much for this, @RanAS!
I managed to get some old hardware with a Quadro K4000 and had a terrible time finding the right combination of linux distribution and drivers. Happy to say this plugin works like a charm on a Dell Precision T1700 with KDE Plasma 5 on Ubuntu 24.04
Because of your work, I'm able to stream again.