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Intel GPU or Nvidia GPU?

Thanks saen,

It has a integrated GPU:

# lspci | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250]

I think it is not enough powerfull to trancode 1080p video. The microserver has two half length PCI-e expansion slots, one x16 and the other x1.

Someone is using transcoding for mobile devices?

Kind regards.

No transcoding software for Ati/AMD devices under Linux :(
Your video card can decode but cannot encode

Yes, I know it. But I want to use the PCI-e expansion to add a encode device.

I am askig for a PCI-e device.

Regards.

There is one device iEi Mustang 200

Thanks saen.

But it look expensive, I am looking for a cheap device, something like a GPU.

Regards.

VAAPI supports AMD devices.

When I looked a few months ago, many nvidia graphics cards supported encoding to h264 and h265 depending on chip.
[[https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix]]
But the price suggested to me that it's almost as cheap to switch to an Intel mobo. But then Saen said there can be issues with getting the right versions of software working. Other people say the quality isn't great, but for mobile it probably doesn't matter. My research suggested getting a Skylake or newer for cpu encoding due to AVX2 instructions making the transcode faster.

I tested with AMD video and VAAPI unstable is very good word
Nvidia 640 (Kepler GK107) zero success with NVENC, VAAPI same zero

i5-4440 (HD 4600)= 10-12 SD streams with ffmpeg, zero with TVH because

checking for pkg libva >=0.38.0 ...               fail (detected 0.35.0)

I think AMD RS880M doesn't support video encoding, only video decoding so unfortunately vaapi won't help.
Good to know nvidia doesn't work since it saved me money.