Re: FFmpeg VAAPI H264 /HEVC encoding not supported

I'm talking with another user on the FreeBSD forum that is running obs 29
and he says that in his system
*FFmpeg VAAPI H264 encoding and FFmpeg VAAPI HEVC encoding are supported.
I'm suspecting that with obs 30 something is broken.*

On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 9:07 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
wrote:

> ---> Are you building ffmpeg from source or installing a package ?
>
> I have installed ffmpeg and obs (30) from packages. I can't install obs 30
> from ports,otherwise I get the following error :
>
> ===>  obs-studio-30.0.2 is marked as broken: Needs CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework)
> which isn't yet ported.
>
> For this reason I can't explore the compilation options that it can offer.
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 8:58 PM Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >> On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 5:23 PM Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
>> >> m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Another issue about video encoders and decoders is patents .
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=is+VAAPI+HEVC+encoding+patented+or+not&sca_esv=596226834&sxsrf=AM9HkKnkHnL5dsq45dd5uDNCjL9Olnwl_A%3A1704557479981&ei=p3uZZZXGOLbjxc8P9e66mAU&ved=0ahUKEwjVtdy4k8mDAxW2cfEDHXW3DlMQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=is+VAAPI+HEVC+encoding+patented+or+not&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJmlzIFZBQVBJIEhFVkMgZW5jb2RpbmcgcGF0ZW50ZWQgb3Igbm90SO6EAVDyCliigQFwAXgBkAEAmAGiAaAB9xGqAQQwLjE5uAEDyAEA-AEBwgIKEAAYRxjWBBiwA8ICBxAjGLACGCfCAggQABgIGB4YDcICCxAAGIAEGIoFGIYDwgIKECEYChigARjDBMICCBAhGKABGMMEwgIFECEYoAHCAgQQIRgV4gMEGAAgQYgGAZAGCA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
>> >>> is VAAPI HEVC encoding patented or not
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=is+VAAPI+H264+encoding+patented+or+not&sca_esv=596226834&sxsrf=AM9HkKl4fSR7Myk6mZQSftwHYdNbZhnr4Q%3A1704557529388&ei=2XuZZYKcF8m9xc8Pj6u0OA&ved=0ahUKEwjC7KbQk8mDAxXJXvEDHY8VDQcQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=is+VAAPI+H264+encoding+patented+or+not&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJmlzIFZBQVBJIEgyNjQgZW5jb2RpbmcgcGF0ZW50ZWQgb3Igbm90MggQABiABBiiBEiP0wZQ5psGWLu5BnADeAGQAQCYAaoBoAGiBqoBAzAuNrgBA8gBAPgBAcICChAAGEcY1gQYsAPiAwQYACBBiAYBkAYI&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
>> >>> is VAAPI H264 encoding patented or not
>> >
>> > Are you building ffmpeg from source or installing a package? Patented
>> ports
>> > need to be built "NONFREE=on" for patented codecs. I am not sure what
>> > options the ffmpeg package is built with.
>>
>> FreeBSD doesn't cripple packages due to patents. See
>> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=6356d8c7e8a5
>>
>> NONFREE in multimedia/ffmpeg refers to the code under GPL-incompatible
>> licenses. It mainly affects OPENSSL and FDK_AAC options. For example,
>> NVENC is enabled by default unlike NONFREE option.
>>
>> FFmpeg also supports CUDA- and NPP- based filters but those are not
>> exposed in the port due to missing dependencies. Both would be NONFREE
>> as SDKs for CUDA (e.g., nvcc) and NPP (e.g., libnpp) are proprietary.
>>
>
>
> --
> Mario.
>


-- 
Mario.