I'm currently looking into options for HW-accelerated H.264/265 transcoding on a server at home (emby). As Xeon E5s don't have a GPU, Intel QuicSync isn't available.
The only viable (and low-cost) option seems to be something like a Nvidia Quadro P400. But as always, proper information about supported features is rather scarce or non-existent for anything but Windows or Linux.
I've found a thread in the emby forums [1], where VA-API was successfully used for transcoding with an integrated Intel GPU on FreeBSD, but for Nvidia Drivers I couldn't find any information about the VA-API support on FreeBSD.
Given FreeBSD now uses linux drm drivers, can I assume VA-API is also available on FreeBSD? (This doesn't make sense - I had drm-next mixed up as the new graphics driver system for *all* vendors)
[edit:] Can VA-API transcoding be used on FreeBSD with nvidia hardware/drivers?
I've never dealt much with graphics apart from normal desktop usage and especially never had anything to do with any video transcoding, so I'm sorry if this question is completely trivial.
My desktop workstation has an old GeForce GTX 960 which uses the old 390 driver package, not the drm-driver, so sadly I don't have any hardware at hand for testing and didn't want to spend cash on new hardware without doing some research first...
[1] https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/70699-enable-hardware-acceleration-on-freebsd/
The only viable (and low-cost) option seems to be something like a Nvidia Quadro P400. But as always, proper information about supported features is rather scarce or non-existent for anything but Windows or Linux.
I've found a thread in the emby forums [1], where VA-API was successfully used for transcoding with an integrated Intel GPU on FreeBSD, but for Nvidia Drivers I couldn't find any information about the VA-API support on FreeBSD.
[edit:] Can VA-API transcoding be used on FreeBSD with nvidia hardware/drivers?
I've never dealt much with graphics apart from normal desktop usage and especially never had anything to do with any video transcoding, so I'm sorry if this question is completely trivial.
My desktop workstation has an old GeForce GTX 960 which uses the old 390 driver package, not the drm-driver, so sadly I don't have any hardware at hand for testing and didn't want to spend cash on new hardware without doing some research first...
[1] https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/70699-enable-hardware-acceleration-on-freebsd/