Sweet! But you think/know that this won't work on a gtx 670 because it's too old? On Nov 20, 2014 9:04 PM, "Antoine Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good news everyone, > > It seems that the beta drivers 346.16 do not require *any* license keys > at all to run (at least on the "GTX 750Ti"s I have tested on). > So, anyone with a sufficiently recent Nvidia card can now enjoy hardware > accelerated encoding, giving you very low latency + high framerate. > The not so good news: I have found a serious bug in xpra with NVENC, and > so you should really avoid using this module with Xpra 0.14 unless you > *never* resize any of your windows... It is also quite difficult to > deploy in 0.14 as you need to full CUDA SDK at runtime. > I strongly recommend using the upcoming 0.15 release instead which has > much improved NVENC support, including SDKv4 support. > > Cheers > Antoine > > > > On 15/06/14 21:55, Antoine Martin wrote: > >> Quick update on this: NVidia's contempt for Linux users continues > unabated. > >> The latest Linux drivers still require a license key to function with > >> consumer cards, not only that but they have also changed those keys > >> during the stable updates to their drivers: the latest 331 and 334 > >> drivers now require different keys than they did before. > >> With the 337 branch it is even worse: the newer keys are accepted, but > >> the API has changed and so the codec needs to be rebuilt against the > >> newer API headers, which have not been released yet.. So this one is a > >> complete no go at present. > >> It also means that the nvenc codec in xpra is actually tied to specific > >> versions of the drivers, which is another system maintenance headache. > > Slight correction: > > * it is the 340 branch that breaks the API and looks like it will need a > > new SDK > > * the 337 branch does run, but breaks the YUV444 mode, so we now disable > > support for it when this driver version is detected. > > I have summarized this nvidia driver mess here: > > http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/595#comment:1 > > > > Antoine > >> > >> Start of rant: > >> "Proprietary Tyrants" > >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-tyrants.html > >> " A/tyrant/device is one that refuses to allow users to install a > >> different operating system or a modified operating system. These devices > >> have measures to block execution of anything other than the “approved” > >> system versions. We also refer to this practice as/tivoization/." > >> > >> "Proprietary Sabotage" > >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-sabotage.html > >> > >> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master--and if you use the program, > >> he is your master." - RMS > >> End of rant. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Antoine > > > _______________________________________________ > shifter-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
