Hardware h264 encoding using vaapi

Original Project Description

This plugin is designed to enable hardware-accelerated transcoding profiles using VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) on Linux systems. It's important to note that this is an experimental test project , and significant tinkering will likely be necessary to get it working properly with your specific hardware configuration.

For more information on vaapi and hardware acceleration:

• https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html#enabling-hardware-acceleration
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration#Comparison_tables

Running the Docker image

Official PeerTube Docker images do not ship with the required libraries for hardware transcoding. To enable VAAPI hardware acceleration, you must use the custom image provided by this repository.

Image selection

• Intel Gen 8 and newer → use the ihd image tag
• Intel Gen 7 and older → use the i965 image tag

Replace chocobozzz/peertube:production-trixie with ghcr.io/althafvly/peertube-vaapi:production-trixie-ihd or ghcr.io/althafvly/peertube-vaapi:production-trixie-i965

Render group ID

The container must be added to the host render group. You need to provide the numeric ID of this group.

You can retrieve it with the following command:

grep "$(ls -l /dev/dri/renderD128 | awk '{print($4)}')" /etc/group | cut -d':' -f3

    # usual peertube configuration
    # ...

    # add these keys
    group_add:
      - <replace with the id of the render group>
    devices:
      # VAAPI Devices
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri