Hello FFMPEG developers!
I asked Nvidia forum about that topic. What do you think about it? What is your own opinion about this idea? The content of the post: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1045756/can-you-implement-opencl-or-cuda-support-option-for-motion-estimation-in-nvenc-hevc-and-avc-/ "Hello Nvidia codec developers! The X264 codec developers had a great idea, when they gave an option for OPENCL motion estimation in their codec. I know that you can use for example: CUDA for weighted prediction in the NVENC. So it means that you can creatively use the various parts of the GPU in cooperative way. "When OPENCL is enabled, lookahead thread is mostly off-loaded to your OpenCL capable GPU device. Lowres intra cost prediction, lowres motion search (including subpel) and bidir cost predictions are all done on the GPU. " You can add motion perdiction too. However it went trough the CPU and caused bottleneck. However you can avoild this in such way, that all of that computings go trough in the videocard only. You can use OPENCL or CUDA acceleration for these stuff, it could greatly improve the quality of the best compression modes. Motion estimation modes: 1. dia, 2. hex, 3. UMH, 4. star, 5. sea, 6. full Sub pixel precision: 1 half pixel only. 2. half and quarter pixel, 3. 2X half + 1X quartel pixel, 4. 2X(SATD half) + 1Xquarter pixel 5. 2X(SATD half) + 2Xquarter pixel, 6. (SATD half)+ and quarter pixel deep 7. 2X(SATD half)+ quarter pixel deep 8. 2X(SATD half) 2X quarter pixel deep MAx pixel search range option for temporar motion perdiction How can it look in command prompt? OP = accelerated OPENCL or Cu= if you choose Cuda Opencl Motion estimation mode =opmem Opencl Sub pixel precision = opspp OpenCL Max pixel search range = opmpsr An example if you want to implement OPENCL: -opmem 4 -opspp 6 -opmpsr 57 An example if you want to implement rather the CUDA : -cumem 4 -cuspp 6 -cumpsr 57 Of course it would be part of quality encoding, so it wouldn't matter if it is not enough fast for 4K live streaming etc. It would be only *an option/extension for people who like the better quality encoding* like transcoding blu-ray or compressing own video files on the computer. So even the lack of very ultrafast speed encoding is not a huge propblem. Those who care about speed (live streaming of high res video) don't use such options. I think the Opencl or Cuda motion estimation can be enough fast even for high resolution videos too, and more importantly it can make* a much better quality motion prediction/estimation* than the motion estimation / prediction technology of the NVENC fixed HW unit! So OPENCL and CUDA support for NVENC HW encoding would be a great leap in video quality!" Thank you for your reply! Best regards! _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
