Emby supports the following hardware acceleration variants on Linux
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Nvidia NVDEC & NVENC
API for video encoding and decoding acceleration using Nvidia GPUs -
VA API
Video Acceleration API for Linux is supported by several device manufacturers -
Intel QuickSync Video
Intel's brand for its dedicated video encoding and decoding hardware core
Nvidia provides two hardware acceleration interfaces:
- NVENCODE API for video encode acceleration
- NVDECODE API for video decode acceleration (formerly called NVCUVID API)
NVIDIA GPUs contain one or more hardware-based decoder and encoder(s) (separate from the CUDA cores) which provides fully-accelerated hardware-based video decoding and encoding for several popular codecs. With decoding/encoding offloaded, the graphics engine and the CPU are free for other operations.
GPU hardware accelerator engines for video decoding (referred to as NVDEC) and video encoding (referred to as NVENC) support faster than real-time video processing which makes them suitable to be used for transcoding applications, in addition to video playback.
The following accelerations are currently supported by Emby. Please note that Emby may not support all accelerations offered by the hardware and that not all hardware devices will support all accelerations.
- Decoders
- H.264 (AVC)
- H.265 (HEVC)
- MPEG2
- MPEG4
- VC1
- VP8
- VP9
- Encoders
- H.264 (AVC)
Hardware acceleration is available for most Nvidia devices starting with GPUs from the Kepler generation (e.g. GeForce GT 630) onwards, including both consumer and professional devices. Detailed information about supported hardware can be found in Nvidias GPU Support Matrix.
Install the latest drivers for your Nvidia hardware either directly from Nvidia Driver Downloads page or from the driver repository of the respective Linux distribution. The procedure may vary by distribution. The minimum required driver version on Linux is 390.25
- Emby supports headless operation for Nvidia
It is not required to connect a monitor
Nvidia Video Codec SDK
GPU Support Matrix
Nvidia Driver Downloads
NVENC,
NVDEC
VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) is an open-source library and API specification, which provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities for video processing. It consists of a main library and driver-specific acceleration backends for each supported hardware vendor.
The following accelerations are currently supported by Emby. Please note that Emby may not support all accelerations offered by the hardware and that not all hardware devices will support all accelerations.
- Decoders
- H.264 (AVC)
- H.265 (HEVC)
- MPEG2
- VC1
- VP8
- VP9
- Encoders
- H.264 (AVC)
- Hardware Filters
- Scaling
- Deinterlacing
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Intel
- Information about supported Intel CPUs with integrated graphics can be found here: Intel Video and Audio for Linux
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AMD
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Other Hardware Supporting VA API
(coming soon)
Radeon™ Software for Linux® Installation
Video Acceleration API Intel Video and Audio for Linux
Intel® Quick Sync Video uses the dedicated media processing capabilities of Intel® Graphics Technology to decode and encode fast, enabling the processor to complete other tasks and improving system responsiveness.
The following accelerations are currently supported by Emby. Please note that Emby may not support all accelerations offered by the hardware and that not all hardware devices will support all accelerations.
- Decoders
- H.264 (AVC)
- H.265 (HEVC)
- MPEG2
- VC1
- VP8
- VP9
- Encoders
- H.264 (AVC)
- Hardware Filters
- Scaling
- Deinterlacing
Quick Sync was initially built into some Sandy Bridge CPUs, but not into Sandy Bridge Pentiums or Celerons.
An overview of acceleration capabilities built into the various CPU generations
can be found here: Hardware decoding and encoding.
and here GPU Acceleration Capabilities.
(coming soon)
Intel QuickSync Video
Codec Support by CPU Generation
GPU Acceleration Capabilities