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Build ffmpeg for NVENC support in debian - Build ffmpeg for NVENC support in debian

hese are the steps to build a ffmpeg deb package with NVENC support to make hardware acceleration available for OBS Required an nVIDIA card with a reasonably updated driver
Install nv encoder headers matching your driver:
git clone --branch <version branch> https://github.com/FFmpeg/nv-codec-headers cd nv-codec-headers sudo make install

Uninstall existing ffmpeg if applicable
Get the ffmpeg source
apt source ffmpeg

add "--enable-nonfree --enable-nvenc" to the...

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I'm on Ubuntu Studio, which comes with OBS preinstalled and working. (among many other things) All I had to do was install the correct driver (which was not in the GUI selection and required a BIOS tweak to get the laptop screen back; that was a pain) for my old Quadro K5100M GPU. And then everything worked!

I guess UStudio already has your steps done before shipping the image???