Hardware encoding on intel

[Paul Barber]

That's great.
I have i5 Haswell and Ubuntu 12.04 on the target machine.
I have read around a bit and tried to get any of the vaapi plugins working but have failed.
Are there anywhere complete instructions on how to install the correct libraries and drivers?
Cheers,
Paul.

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Yes, i3,i5,i7 ivybridge and haswell, through the vaapi. There was a recent bug fix by intel ( earlier this week) that fixed a bug with the hardware scaler -> intel encoder caps negotiation, i.e.

vaapipostproc ! vaapiencode_h264

that no longer requires the use of a vaapisink. Note to use h264 encoding will need to use gstreamer-vaapi version 0.5.9+ which contains the vaapiencode_h264 element.

Currently I am seeing an issue with Ubuntu 14.04 locking up completely (all machines I've tried) after a period of time, in particular when pushing QuickSync hard (i.e. 7+ video decode), if you see the same issue, please let me know.