Hardware acceleration

If your hardware does not support hardware acceleration, you can use the built-in software encoders or decoders, which don't use hardware acceleration. For H.264 and H.265 videos, the default built-in software encoder and decoder is MainConcept. ...

Wowza Streaming Engine supports Intel Quick Sync Video (IQSV) hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding. IQSV supports H.264 and H.265 transcoding on Intel processors with an integrated GPU. It is based on Intel’s oneVPL and replaces the earlie...

Use Advantech Vega 331x-series cards to perform accelerated encoding in Wowza Streaming Engine on supported Linux distributions.

Use information in Wowza Streaming Engine logs to determine if hardware acceleration is available and is being used.

Wowza Streaming Engine supports hardware-accelerated H.264 and H.265 transcoding on NETINT Quadra devices. WSE detects the VPUs installed on the host at runtime. You can configure decoding, scaling, and each encoded rendition to a specific devic...