Serviio

Try to enable Intel QSV (Quick Sync Video) with Serviio 1.7 on Mac

CPU: Intel "Core i5" processor
OS: macOS Sierra


1. Install Serviio v1.7 (it's upgrade from Serviio 1.6)

2. Update ffmpeg, downloaded Mac version(static FFmpeg binaries for Mac OS X Intel 64bit) from here and replace same file in Serviio installation folder:
http://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/

From FFMPEG website, The following library versions are included:

libavutil 55. 35.100 / 55. 35.100
libavcodec 57. 66.100 / 57. 66.100
libavformat 57. 57.100 / 57. 57.100
libavdevice 57. 2.100 / 57. 2.100
libavfilter 6. 66.100 / 6. 66.100
libswscale 4. 3.100 / 4. 3.100
libswresample 2. 4.100 / 2. 4.100
libpostproc 54. 2.100 / 54. 2.100

Question here, this ffmpeg build seemingly is NOT with QSV included (--enable-libmfx)??!!

3. The transcoding profile is like this(transcoding 4K H264 to 1080 H264 file), profile works fine.


When I watch video on TV I noticed that CPU consumption is around 96%, video is smooth.

4. Add option "-Dserviio.useQSVAcceleration" into file " /Library/Application Support/Serviio/bin/serviio.sh" (at the end of last line).

5. Reboot

6. Watch video on TV and found CPU consumption is still around 96%, video is good though. Looks QSV didn't work.

What could be the cause? Wrong FFMPEG build? Where can I find a right version ?

Yes, FMpeg needs to be built with that option. I'm not sure if there are builds available on the web or if you need to build one yourself. I think you also need to install Intel's QSV sdk so that FFmpeg can hook into the drivers.

Some info is here: http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/e ... valid.html