Intel Quick Sync Video¶

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Intel Quick Sync Video has long been unsupported. Intel no longer produces server processors with this technology, and Flussonic does not support it: the drivers below are not maintained and no help is provided with them. The page is kept only for installations where QSV is still running on old hardware. For hardware transcoding use NVIDIA NVENC.

Information about supported platforms can be found on Intel's official GitHub page: https://github.com/intel/media-driver#supported-platforms

After installation, the QSV transcoder is available via the hw=qsv option:

stream example {
  input udp://239.1.1.10:5500;
  transcoder vb=3000k hw=qsv ab=64k;
}

Learn more about transcoder configuration.

Installing QSV on Ubuntu¶

We have prepared a .deb package that allows you to easily install the QSV drivers on Ubuntu 18.04.

apt install linux-base flussonic-qsv intel-media-va-driver libdrm-intel1 vainfo i965-va-driver libpciaccess0
reboot

Installing QSV on CentOS¶

Please follow Intel's official manual on the subject: https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK#system-requirements