[winswitch] NVENC developer key?

[Antoine Martin]

On 20/11/14 19:45, ... wrote:
> Sweet!  But you think/know that this won't work on a gtx 670 because it's
> too old?
I believe it should work with a GTX 670.

One sure way to find out is to try the beta repository, which has fresh
0.15 packages (RPMs for Fedora and CentOS have just been pushed, DEBs
for Ubuntu and Debian will be pushed tomorrow).
All you need to install, apart from xpra 0.15.0, is "python-pycuda"
(which is also in the RPM repositories and is available from Debian
"contrib").
If you do, please share the results. Running "xpra/codecs/loader.py -v"
should show "nvenc3" and/or "nvenc4" as available codecs.

Cheers
Antoine


> On Nov 20, 2014 9:04 PM, "Antoine Martin" <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Good news everyone,
>>
>> It seems that the beta drivers 346.16 do not require *any* license keys
>> at all to run (at least on the "GTX 750Ti"s I have tested on).
>> So, anyone with a sufficiently recent Nvidia card can now enjoy hardware
>> accelerated encoding, giving you very low latency + high framerate.
>> The not so good news: I have found a serious bug in xpra with NVENC, and
>> so you should really avoid using this module with Xpra 0.14 unless you
>> *never* resize any of your windows... It is also quite difficult to
>> deploy in 0.14 as you need to full CUDA SDK at runtime.
>> I strongly recommend using the upcoming 0.15 release instead which has
>> much improved NVENC support, including SDKv4 support.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Antoine
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15/06/14 21:55, Antoine Martin wrote:
>>>> Quick update on this: NVidia's contempt for Linux users continues
>> unabated.
>>>> The latest Linux drivers still require a license key to function with
>>>> consumer cards, not only that but they have also changed those keys
>>>> during the stable updates to their drivers: the latest 331 and 334
>>>> drivers now require different keys than they did before.
>>>> With the 337 branch it is even worse: the newer keys are accepted, but
>>>> the API has changed and so the codec needs to be rebuilt against the
>>>> newer API headers, which have not been released yet.. So this one is a
>>>> complete no go at present.
>>>> It also means that the nvenc codec in xpra is actually tied to specific
>>>> versions of the drivers, which is another system maintenance headache.
>>> Slight correction:
>>> * it is the 340 branch that breaks the API and looks like it will need a
>>> new SDK
>>> * the 337 branch does run, but breaks the YUV444 mode, so we now disable
>>> support for it when this driver version is detected.
>>> I have summarized this nvidia driver mess here:
>>> http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/595#comment:1
>>>
>>> Antoine
>>>> Start of rant:
>>>> "Proprietary Tyrants"
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-tyrants.html
>>>> " A/tyrant/device is one that refuses to allow users to install a
>>>> different operating system or a modified operating system. These devices
>>>> have measures to block execution of anything other than the “approved”
>>>> system versions. We also refer to this practice as/tivoization/."
>>>>
>>>> "Proprietary Sabotage"
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-sabotage.html
>>>>
>>>> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master--and if you use the program,
>>>> he is your master." - RMS
>>>> End of rant.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Antoine
>>
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