Hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding

This section contains information about API to control Hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding.

Note

Check Wiki page for description of supported hardware / software configurations and available benchmarks

cv::VideoCapture properties:

• CAP_PROP_HW_ACCELERATION (as VideoAccelerationType)
• CAP_PROP_HW_DEVICE

cv::VideoWriter properties:

• VIDEOWRITER_PROP_HW_ACCELERATION (as VideoAccelerationType)
• VIDEOWRITER_PROP_HW_DEVICE

Properties are supported by these backends:

• CAP_FFMPEG
• CAP_GSTREAMER
• CAP_MSMF (Windows)