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		dsr_ on June 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cheap HDMI capture for Linux Use any codec scheme you like. ffmpeg and mencode are the usual suspects, or Handbrake if you like GUIs to help you along. Realtime encoding is within the reach of some schemes on some processors.

gm-conspiracy on June 27, 2016 | [–]

Realtime encoding is within the reach of some schemes on some processors.

Can you elaborate on that?

What sort of setup (hw/sw) would one need to make this viable (realtime encoding from the stream)?

drothlis on June 27, 2016 | | [–]

Intel GPUs + VAAPI (https://01.org/linuxgraphics/community/vaapi) can easily do H.264 encoding in real time.

P.S. See also https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro

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