Can a GPU be used to Encode h264?

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Mar 15, 202651161 views

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I am wondering if I get a better graphics card could it speed up h264 encoding on my machine using handbrake? If so how can I tell what graphics card will support this? I am aware that the GPU can do hardware decoding of h264, but am not sure about encoding.

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Using Handbrake the answer would be no. Handbrake is a CPU-only h.264 encoder, though it now is able to use OpenCL for video scaling and has some support for DXVA for video decoding. The question linked by slhck mentions MediaCoder, but it requires …

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