NVIDIA-based Transcoder Installation

nvidia gpu transcoding uses nvidia gpus for hardware accelerated video transcoding and will operate on any hardware configuration supported by the zixi broadcaster, including on premise hardware and cloud based hardware and on x86 64 and arm64 processors to enable transcoding, you will need a zixi transcoding license to obtain a license file, please contact zixi support support\@zixi com mailto\ support\@zixi com hardware requirements nvidia gpus are available on consumer gaming graphics pcie cards, professional cad acceleration pcie cards, custom motherboards, and on cloud services such as aws, azure, and google cloud below are the recommended modern nvidia gpus, although older and new gpus should work as well nvidia quadro & rtx pcie cards aws vm g4dn (t4) gcp vm – g2 (l4), t4 azure vm – ncas (t4) tata cloud vm – a16, t4 nvidia pascal architectures or later are required for hevc/h 265 decoding nvidia tesla architectures cannot decode hevc/h 265, but can decode mpeg2 and h 264 as of this writing, nvidia does not support decode or encode of 4 2 2 content more details on specific features supported by different architectures can be found in the encode/decode support matrix from nvidia at https //developer nvidia com/video encode decode gpu support matrix https //developer nvidia com/video encode decode gpu support matrix key information to look for when selecting a gpu card and architecture is the “max # of concurrent sessions” this value determines how many encodes can be performed in parallel, which is relevant for abr streaming where you will typically need between three to nine bitrate profiles the best choice for transcoding for abr streaming is a gpu card with unrestricted sessions operating system requirements the operating system requirements are listed in installing zixi products docid\ vr8wiz4ksrwxsz52cx w installation docid 3k5j rn pt83ejpb9ra0w installer screens and prompts docid\ b7xcyhvqko54fln9ccyaa validating the nvidia driver installation docid\ eq0 t1ygxsts88rdgeqmj