With no graphics card specific compilation to the ffmpeg, which among intel or AMD is better for executing

ffmpeg -i input -c:v libx265 -crf 26 -preset fast -c:a aac -b:a 128k output.mp4

Would tight integration between amd cpu + gpu help in this case?

Fyi. Currently i am using intel with cpu only mode for this and its pretty slow.

  • @entropicdrift
    1•7 months ago

    If you want to use hardware acceleration from the Intel iGPU, you’d want to do something like:

    ffmpeg -i input -hwaccel qsv -hwaccel_output_format qsv -c:v h265_qsv -crf 26 -preset fast -c:a aac -b:a 128k output.mp4

    Intel tends to be much higher quality for hardware accelerated encoding. If you’re doing pure CPU encoding using libx265, then AMD tends to have more/better cores so they can go a bit faster at the same price level.

    If you’re using hardware acceleration for video specifically, Intel is better.