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. ...

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.