Hardware acceleration

Learn about server specifications for computers that support Intel Quick Sync video acceleration with the Transcoder in Wowza Streaming Engine.

Learn about accelerated video encoding requirements when using NVIDIA graphics cards with the Transcoder in Wowza Streaming Engine.

Set up Quick Sync-accelerated encoding for Wowza Streaming Engine on supported Linux distributions.

Describes a Windows service workaround to enable Transcoder to use Quick Sync and CUDA hardware acceleration.

Learn how Wowza Streaming Engine supports NVIDIA graphics cards with the Kepler GPU architecture to enable accelerated transcoding.

Set up the NVIDIA driver and Wowza Streaming Engine on Fedora to leverage NVIDIAs NVENC-accelerated H.264 encoding technology.

Set up the NVIDIA driver and Wowza Streaming Engine on Ubuntu to leverage NVIDIA's NVENC accelerated H.264 encoding technology.

Set up the NVIDIA driver and Wowza Streaming Engine on CentOS to leverage NVIDIAs NVENC accelerated H.264 encoding technology.

Set up the NVIDIA driver and Wowza Streaming Engine on Debian to leverage NVIDIA's NVENC accelerated H.264 encoding technology.

Configure and run NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on Wowza Streaming Engine for Amazon EC2 g2.2xlarge instance types.