Not utilizing Nvidia card

[noobtoob4lyfe]

Apologies if this is a noob question, but when I run a movie through BF it makes my cpu usage go to about 90% and my videocard usage remains flat. I ran .\butterflow -d and got the following. Any suggestions? Do I need to add something to the command to activate hardware acceleration? OpenCL devices: Platform : NVIDIA CUDA Platform Vendor : NVIDIA Corporation Platform Version : OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 10.0.132

• Device 0 : GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Vendor Id : 0x10de Version : OpenCL 1.2 Version : 416.34 Work Sizes : 1024, 1024x1024x64 Compatible : Yes

[dthpham]

Try using the -device option: butterflow -device 0 <other args>

[noobtoob4lyfe]

Thanks very much for the suggestion. I am using that option and the graphics card usage is about the same (somewhere between 3 and 5%). CPU usage is up to 70 -90% though. Is this normal?

[dthpham]

It might be selecting the wrong device. Run with -vv to confirm your GPU is being selected.

[noobtoob4lyfe]

Thanks again. Here's what it printed out.
[butterflow:INFO]: Version 0.2.4a4 [butterflow:INFO]: Cache directory: c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\butterflow-0.2.4a4 [butterflow:INFO]: At least one compatible OpenCL device was detected [butterflow:INFO]: Using device: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti [butterflow:INFO]: Hardware acceleration is enabled [butterflow:INFO]: Rendering: [butterflow:INFO]: Sequence: Duration=0:00:03.788000 (3.79s), Frames=227, Rate=59.9400596619

Maybe ffmpeg needs to have HW acceleration enabled somehow?

[pseudosavant]

I'm not able to get it to leverage my Nvidia GPU either. It detects it fine with -d and the verbose messages says it auto selects the GPU and hardware acceleration is on, but my GPU usage never goes above a few percent.

Here is the verbose output from running `butterflow -r 2x -v video.mp4':

[butterflow:INFO]: Version 0.2.4a4 [butterflow:INFO]: Cache directory: c:\users\paul\appdata\local\temp\butterflow-0.2.4a4 [butterflow:INFO]: At least one compatible OpenCL device was detected [butterflow:INFO]: Using device: GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (autoselected) [butterflow:INFO]: Hardware acceleration is enabled [butterflow:INFO]: Rendering: [butterflow:INFO]: Sequence: Duration=0:00:22.923000 (22.92s), Frames=687, Rate=29.9700298309 [butterflow:INFO]: Subregion (0): Time=0:00:00-0:00:22.923000 Frames=0-686 Speed=1.0,Duration=?,Fps=? [butterflow:INFO]: Rendering to: kobe vs lebron.remux.21560.mp4 [butterflow:INFO]: Final destination: output\kvl.mp4 [butterflow:INFO]: [Subprocess] Opening a pipe to the video writer [butterflow:INFO]: Rendering progress: 0.00% [butterflow:INFO]: Start working on Subregion (0): Time=0:00:00-0:00:22.923000 Frames=0-686 Speed=1.0,Duration=?,Fps=? [butterflow:INFO]: Frames in region: 0-686 [butterflow:INFO]: Region length: 687 [butterflow:INFO]: Region duration: 22.923000s [butterflow:INFO]: Number of frame pairs: 686 [butterflow:INFO]: Interpolation rate: 2 [butterflow:INFO]: Time stepping: 0.333,0.667 [butterflow:INFO]: Frames to write: 1374 [butterflow:INFO]: Will interpolate: 2058 [butterflow:INFO]: Extra frames (to discard): 684 [butterflow:INFO]: Drop every: 3 [butterflow:INFO]: Dupe every: 0 [butterflow:INFO]: Ready to run: 687 times [butterflow:INFO]: Showing a sample of the first and last 15 runs: [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S0 I1,1 0.15% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S1 I1,1 0.29% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S2 I1,1 0.44% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S3 I1,1 0.58% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S4 I1,1 0.73% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S5 I1,1 0.87% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S6 I1,1 1.02% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S7 I1,1 1.16% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S8 I1,1 1.31% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S9 I1,1 1.46% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S10 I1,1 1.60% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S11 I1,1 1.75% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S12 I1,1 1.89% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S13 I1,1 2.04% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S14 I1,1 2.18% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S15 I1,1 2.33% [butterflow:INFO]: <Snipping 657 runs from the console, but will update progress periodically every 65 frames rendered> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 9.46%> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 18.92%> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 28.46%> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 37.92%> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 47.38%> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 56.91%> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 66.38%> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 75.91%> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 85.37%> [butterflow:INFO]: <Rendering progress: 94.83%> [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S673 I1,1 98.33% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S674 I1,1 98.47% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S675 I1,1 98.62% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S676 I1,1 98.76% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S677 I1,1 98.91% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S678 I1,1 99.05% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S679 I1,1 99.20% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S680 I1,1 99.34% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S681 I1,1 99.49% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S682 I1,1 99.64% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S683 I1,1 99.78% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S684 I1,1 99.93% [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S685 I2,0 100.15% [butterflow:INFO]: Run 686 (this is the final run): [butterflow:INFO]: To write: S686 [butterflow:INFO]: Done rendering Subregion (0) [butterflow:INFO]: [Subprocess] Closing pipe to the video writer [butterflow:INFO]: Rendering is finished [butterflow:INFO]: Moving: kobe vs lebron.remux.21560.mp4 -> output\kvl.mp4 [butterflow:WARNING]: Unexpected write ratio [butterflow:WARNING]: Write ratio: 1376/1374, (100.15%) [butterflow:INFO]: Final output frames: 686 source, +690 interpolated, +0 duped, -0 dropped [butterflow:INFO]: Output file size: 7829.78 kB (4420.24 kB) [butterflow:INFO]: Rendering took 1.8 mins, done.

[NgocSon159]

Try using the -device option: butterflow -device 0 <other args>

Thanks you. That's work!

[jonathancolledge]

Has anyone apart from NgocSon159 solved this?