MathewSachin/Captura

[Suggestion] Add support FFmpeg/libav NVIDIA GPUs

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#155 opened on Dec 8, 2017

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Reference: https://developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg

it is only a suggestion for more efficiency of "Captura", for those who posses NVIDIA graphic cards.

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Research direction
Investigate how Captura currently integrates FFmpeg for encoding and explore adding NVIDIA GPU acceleration via NVENC. Look at existing FFmpeg documentation on hardware acceleration and examine sample captures to understand the required changes.
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csharp
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desktop devperformance
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Feature
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3
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Over 1 week
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Active
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Needs investigation
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C#FFmpegGPU concepts
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40