<p>There is a hardware-accelerated VP8 encoder recently released by the University of Milan. Source and standalone binary for 64-bit Linux and  compute 3.5, 5.0 and 5.2 capable NVidia GPU cards available at <a href="https://github.com/Italtel-Unimi/libvpx" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Italtel-Unimi/libvpx</a></p>

<p>They say they have integrated the code into libav libs i.e. FFmpeg, but this hasn't been pushed into the FFmpeg master branch.</p>

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2016-07-02T12:08:28.373Z
Cool! Do you know why it is not part of ffmpeg yet?
Sergey
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2016-07-02T12:47:28.253Z
Recently released, so it has to be tested and committed into libvpx master, then their libav code will be tested and pushed into FFmpeg.
Gyan
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2016-07-02T09:54:10.807Z
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2016-07-02T11:45:33.923Z
Gyan
<p>I'm new to video encoding. And I was looking at h264/265 and VP8/9.<br>
I'd like to use VP8/9. But it seems like nobody except Google is pushing it.<br>
I just want to know does someone else support VP8/9? Specefically is there a hardware acceleration for encoding.<br>
And <strong>de</strong>coding VP<strong>9</strong> on my Linux box looks very slow (when navigating in video it lags for 2sec, while vp8 is instant).</p>

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Is there something like nvenc for free codecs (VP8/9)?
Sergey
# Is there something like nvenc for free codecs (VP8/9)?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-02)

I'm new to video encoding. And I was looking at h264/265 and VP8/9.  
I'd like to use VP8/9. But it seems like nobody except Google is pushing it.  
I just want to know does someone else support VP8/9? Specefically is there a hardware acceleration for encoding.  
And **de**coding VP**9** on my Linux box looks very slow (when navigating in video it lags for 2sec, while vp8 is instant).

**Tags:** encoding, codec, hardware


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2016-07-02. Score: 3

There is a hardware-accelerated VP8 encoder recently released by the University of Milan. Source and standalone binary for 64-bit Linux and compute 3.5, 5.0 and 5.2 capable NVidia GPU cards available at <https://github.com/Italtel-Unimi/libvpx>

They say they have integrated the code into libav libs i.e. FFmpeg, but this hasn't been pushed into the FFmpeg master branch.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Cool! Do you know why it is not part of ffmpeg yet?  
> **username_1**: Recently released, so it has to be tested and committed into libvpx master, then their libav code will be tested and pushed into FFmpeg.  

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