On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:55:39 +0100
Timo Rothenpieler <t...@rothenpieler.org> wrote:

> Am 10.02.2017 um 13:35 schrieb wm4:
> > These patches merge the previously skipped Libav commits, which made
> > avconv lazily initialize libavfilter graphs. This means the filters
> > are initialized with the actual output format, instead of whatever
> > libavformat reports.
> > 
> > It's a prerequisite to making hardware decoding support saner, as
> > hardware decoders will output a different pixfmt than the software
> > format reported by libavformat. This can be seen on ffmpeg_qsv.c,
> > which doesn't lose any functionality, even though half of the code
> > is removed.
> > 
> > There are some differences in how ffmpeg.c and avconv.c filter-flow
> > works. Also, avconv.c doesn't have sub2video. Relatively intrusive
> > changes were required.
> > 
> > The status of cuvid is unknown, but work in progress.  
> 
> cuvid itself works. A chain with h264_cuvid -> hwdownload,format=nv12 ->
> libx264/nvenc works fine.
> Nvenc by itself also still works as usual.
> It's just that for some unknown reason direct hw transcoding from
> h264_cuvid to nvenc results in nvenc reporting an out of memory error
> when encoding the first frame.
> I went through all variables I could think of by now, and everything
> seems to be in order. So current idea is that nvenc doesn't like being
> initialized after cuvid, which doesn't really make sense, but I'll keep
> investigating.

I want to add that the same with qsv works just fine, which makes this
even more strange.

I'd argue for fixing this "later" after the merge.
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