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authorPhilip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>2017-05-29 09:48:10 -0700
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vo_opengl: hwdec_cuda: Support separate decode and display devices
In a multi GPU scenario, it may be desirable to use different GPUs for decode and display responsibilities. For example, if a secondary GPU has better video decoding capabilities. In such a scenario, we need to initialise a separate context for each GPU, and use the display context in hwdec_cuda, while passing the decode context to avcodec. Once that's done, the actually hand-off between the two GPUs is transparent to us (It happens during the cuMemcpy2D operation which copies the decoded frame from a cuda buffer to the OpenGL texture). In the end, the bulk of the work is around introducing a new configuration option to specify the decode device.
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@@ -4802,6 +4802,16 @@ The following video options are currently all specific to ``--vo=opengl`` and
This option might be silently removed in the future, if ANGLE fixes shader
compilation speed.
+``--cuda-decode-device=<auto|0..>``
+ Choose the GPU device used for decoding when using the ``cuda`` hwdec.
+
+ By default, the device that is being used to provide OpenGL output will
+ also be used for decoding (and in the vast majority of cases, only one
+ GPU will be present).
+
+ Note that when using the ``cuda-copy`` hwdec, a different option must be
+ passed: ``--vd-lavc-o=gpu=<0..>``.
+
Miscellaneous
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