October 7, 2019

Enable hardware acceleration for Intel Quick Sync on Ubuntu

Nimble Streamer Transcoder supports Intel® Quick Sync technology for encoding acceleration using Intel® processors feature set. Nimble Streamer allows using Quick Sync as AVC/H.264 video encoder in transcoding scenarios.

Once you have Quick Sync installed, the encoding becomes available in our Transcoder.

The instructions below describes how to enable hardware acceleration on Ubuntu 19.04 and later releases.

Install required packages


Run the following command to install required packages on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install intel-media-va-driver-non-free libmfx1

Notice that they are available on 19.04 and later releases.

Set up Nimble Streamer Transcoder


Follow Transcoder Ubuntu installation procedure to install it on your server.
Use Ubuntu 18.04 instruction there as it works fine on 19.04.

This articles describes how to use this encoder: H.264/AVC QuickSync encoder parameters.
After that you'll be all set to use Intel acceleration on Ubuntu with our live Transcoder.


If you face any questions, feel free to contact us for any questions.

Related documentation


Live Transcoder for Nimble Streamer, Live Streaming features, Transcoder support for Intel® Quick SyncEnabling hardware acceleration on CentOSEnabling hardware acceleration on Windows,

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