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  • OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•Intel or AMD for ffmpeg?English
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    2 years ago

    AMD APUs have Video Coding Engine / Unified Video Decoder, while Intel CPUs have QuickSync. FFMPEG’s hardware page says that AMD support is incomplete.

    You may want to ask over in !datahoarder@lemmy.ml . This topic often came up back on Reddit, and the general vibe I got was that most people prefer QuickSync. Intel may not be great in a lot of areas, but they are a beast in video encoding/decoding. That being said, I use a Ryzen APU and it’s perfectly fine. There are way more important things to look at when choosing a CPU.

    If your performance is slow, I would check your CPU is listed on the chart I linked above. Not all CPUs support all codecs.

    Edit: If your CPU doesn’t support the codec, it will still work, it just won’t be accelerated.