No hardware acceleration options available with nvidia GPUs

[jfp1992]

Describe the bug: I have a gtx 980ti and a rtx 3070, I go to edit>preferences>performance I click hardware decoder mode but it doesn't show anything in the drop down.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Click on edit
2. Click on preferences
3. Click on performance
4. Click drop down

Expected behavior: Able to see HW decoder for my GPU, such as nvenc / cuda

Actual behavior: No drop down option for hardware acceleration

Things tried Reinstalling openshot Rebooting machine

System Details:

• OpenShot Version [2.5.1]: {{ log_context.openshot_qt_version }}
• Operating System [Windows 10]

Screenshots: (Optional)

[DavidOsipov]

Same here. I've tried a daily build (April 9 2021), but no effect.

[tactmaster]

Same with a 2060

OpenShot-v2.5.1-dev2-daily-7602-0b783ee5-92ff6084-x86_64.exe (64-bit) | June 4, 2021, 9:17

[JacksonRG]

I'll look into this. It looks like currently GPU acceleration isn't fully supported on windows.

[excelsior091224]

Same with an AMD Radeon RX5700XT

OpenShot-v2.6.1-release-candidate-8238-59878784-d588dbd6

[AyrA]

Can confirm on my end too. System details:

NVEncC (x64) 5.41 (r2064) by rigaya, Oct 14 2021 13:42:50 (VC 1929/Win)
OS Version     Windows 10 x64 (19042) [UTF-8]
CPU            AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor [3.40GHz] (16C/32T)
GPU            #0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (10496 cores, 1785 MHz)[PCIe4x16][472.47]
NVENC / CUDA   NVENC API 11.1, CUDA 11.4, schedule mode: auto

NVEncC can successfully render video files using GPU so it's definitely not a driver or hardware issue.

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[AyrA]

• If this issue is reporting a bug, please can you attempt to reproduce on the latest daily build to help us to understand whether the bug still needs our attention.

Can confirm that this still exists in OpenShot-v2.6.1-dev-daily-9498-664c5db8-46255e46-x86_64.exe

[valankar]

https://openshot.org/files/libopenshot/md_doc_HW-ACCEL.html

currently says encoding is possible on Windows. Is this not correct?

[Colorjet3]

It may have worked previously but currently it does not.

[Thedoczek]

Still not working

[Colorjet3]

Hello @Thedoczek Correct, hardware acceleration in Windows is not yet working. No ETA either!

[Colorjet3]

Here is the word from the DEV Team: • Hardware Acceleration: Hardware Acceleration in Windows is supported but limited. Those new settings that you see in the Performance tab are new, experimental, and not fully baked.

• Hardware acceleration is still experimental in OpenShot Video Editor.
• NVIDIA NVENC acceleration is only available in Linux operating systems.
• OpenShot v2.6.0 and later includes Intel® Quick Sync Video encoding in Windows operating systems. If you have a CPU that supports Intel®QSV encoding, you can use the encoder by selecting the ( QSV) MP4 (h.264 qsv) Target on the Export Video window. You do not have to change the Preferences window to use the Intel® QSV encoder." • Hardware acceleration in OpenShot requires using the proprietary drivers from the distribution package manager instead of the NVIDIA drivers. You cannot use the Nouveau, Xorg, or open-source drivers.