# Hardware h264 encoding using NVIDIA NVENC

This plugin tries to enable hardware accelerated transcoding profiles using nvenc on linux. It should be considered experimental and tinkering will certainly be necessary to make this plugin work on your hardware.


For more information on nvenc 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


# Building and running a compatible docker image

 - https://github.com/ryanho/peertube-hwaccel