Can't load nvenc plugins

[Ilya Aleshkov]

Hi  Miguel,

> But when I run a piece of cpp software that uses these elements I am no
longer able to use them in the terminal.

There is a restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video
encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs -
https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new
Perhaps this information will be useful for you.

Thanks,
Ilya

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 2:00 PM Nirbheek Chauhan via gstreamer-devel <
gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Try setting GST_DEBUG=nv*:6 to see what's happening. Most likely some
> cuvid etc initialization fails when that is happening, perhaps due to
> some quirks in how nvcodec works.
>
> Cheers,
> Nirbheek
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 4:15 PM Miguel Leão via gstreamer-devel
> <gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am facing a weird problem with the nvcodec elements, mainly the
> nvh265enc and nvh264enc plugins. I can run several pipelines simultaneously
> in the terminal using those elements and everything runs properly. But when
> I run a piece of cpp software that uses these elements I am no longer able
> to use them in the terminal.
> > When I try to inspect the element, example:
> > gst-inspect-1.0 nvh264enc
> > I have the following error:
> > element plugin couldn't be loaded
> > No such element or plugin 'nvh264enc'
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this behavior?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Miguel
>
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