I am trying to encode a 10-bit H.265 video from a 8-bit H.264 source using ffmpeg with CUDA hardware acceleration.
Without hardware acceleration, a typical command would be ffmpeg -i input.mkv -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -c:v libx265 -crf 21 -x265-params profile=main10 out.mkv.
Using CUDA, I expect the corresponding command to be ffmpeg -i input.mkv -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -c:v hevc_nvenc -profile:v main10 -cq 21 out.mkv.
However, when I list the supported encoder settings using ffmpeg -h encoder=hevc_nvenc (output of command pasted below), even though it supports main10, no 10-bit pixel format is supported: Supported pixel formats: yuv420p nv12 p010le yuv444p p016le yuv444p16le bgr0 rgb0 cuda d3d11. Does the encoding work for my use case, or not?
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Encoder hevc_nvenc (NVIDIA NVENC hevc encoder):
General capabilities: delay hardware
Threading capabilities: none
Supported hardware devices: cuda cuda d3d11va d3d11va
Supported pixel formats: yuv420p nv12 p010le yuv444p p016le yuv444p16le bgr0 rgb0 cuda d3d11
hevc_nvenc AVOptions:
-preset <int> E..V...... Set the encoding preset (from 0 to 11) (default medium)
default 0 E..V......
slow 1 E..V...... hq 2 passes
medium 2 E..V...... hq 1 pass
fast 3 E..V...... hp 1 pass
hp 4 E..V......
hq 5 E..V......
bd 6 E..V......
ll 7 E..V...... low latency
llhq 8 E..V...... low latency hq
llhp 9 E..V...... low latency hp
lossless 10 E..V...... lossless
losslesshp 11 E..V...... lossless hp
-profile <int> E..V...... Set the encoding profile (from 0 to 4) (default main)
main 0 E..V......
main10 1 E..V......
rext 2 E..V......
-level <int> E..V...... Set the encoding level restriction (from 0 to 186) (default auto)
auto 0 E..V......
1 30 E..V......
1.0 30 E..V......
2 60 E..V......
2.0 60 E..V......
2.1 63 E..V......
3 90 E..V......
3.0 90 E..V......
3.1 93 E..V......
4 120 E..V......
4.0 120 E..V......
4.1 123 E..V......
5 150 E..V......
5.0 150 E..V......
5.1 153 E..V......
5.2 156 E..V......
6 180 E..V......
6.0 180 E..V......
6.1 183 E..V......
6.2 186 E..V......
-tier <int> E..V...... Set the encoding tier (from 0 to 1) (default main)
main 0 E..V......
high 1 E..V......
-rc <int> E..V...... Override the preset rate-control (from -1 to INT_MAX) (default -1)
constqp 0 E..V...... Constant QP mode
vbr 1 E..V...... Variable bitrate mode
cbr 2 E..V...... Constant bitrate mode
vbr_minqp 8388612 E..V...... Variable bitrate mode with MinQP (deprecated)
ll_2pass_quality 8388616 E..V...... Multi-pass optimized for image quality (deprecated)
ll_2pass_size 8388624 E..V...... Multi-pass optimized for constant frame size (deprecated)
vbr_2pass 8388640 E..V...... Multi-pass variable bitrate mode (deprecated)
cbr_ld_hq 8 E..V...... Constant bitrate low delay high quality mode
cbr_hq 16 E..V...... Constant bitrate high quality mode
vbr_hq 32 E..V...... Variable bitrate high quality mode
-rc-lookahead <int> E..V...... Number of frames to look ahead for rate-control (from 0 to INT_MAX) (default 0)
-surfaces <int> E..V...... Number of concurrent surfaces (from 0 to 64) (default 0)
-cbr <boolean> E..V...... Use cbr encoding mode (default false)
-2pass <boolean> E..V...... Use 2pass encoding mode (default auto)
-gpu <int> E..V...... Selects which NVENC capable GPU to use. First GPU is 0, second is 1, and so on. (from -2 to INT_MAX) (default any)
any -1 E..V...... Pick the first device available
list -2 E..V...... List the available devices
-delay <int> E..V...... Delay frame output by the given amount of frames (from 0 to INT_MAX) (default INT_MAX)
-no-scenecut <boolean> E..V...... When lookahead is enabled, set this to 1 to disable adaptive I-frame insertion at scene cuts (default false)
-forced-idr <boolean> E..V...... If forcing keyframes, force them as IDR frames. (default false)
-spatial_aq <boolean> E..V...... set to 1 to enable Spatial AQ (default false)
-spatial-aq <boolean> E..V...... set to 1 to enable Spatial AQ (default false)
-temporal_aq <boolean> E..V...... set to 1 to enable Temporal AQ (default false)
-temporal-aq <boolean> E..V...... set to 1 to enable Temporal AQ (default false)
-zerolatency <boolean> E..V...... Set 1 to indicate zero latency operation (no reordering delay) (default false)
-nonref_p <boolean> E..V...... Set this to 1 to enable automatic insertion of non-reference P-frames (default false)
-strict_gop <boolean> E..V...... Set 1 to minimize GOP-to-GOP rate fluctuations (default false)
-aq-strength <int> E..V...... When Spatial AQ is enabled, this field is used to specify AQ strength. AQ strength scale is from 1 (low) - 15 (aggressive) (from 1 to 15) (default 8)
-cq <float> E..V...... Set target quality level (0 to 51, 0 means automatic) for constant quality mode in VBR rate control (from 0 to 51) (default 0)
-aud <boolean> E..V...... Use access unit delimiters (default false)
-bluray-compat <boolean> E..V...... Bluray compatibility workarounds (default false)
-init_qpP <int> E..V...... Initial QP value for P frame (from -1 to 51) (default -1)
-init_qpB <int> E..V...... Initial QP value for B frame (from -1 to 51) (default -1)
-init_qpI <int> E..V...... Initial QP value for I frame (from -1 to 51) (default -1)
-qp <int> E..V...... Constant quantization parameter rate control method (from -1 to 51) (default -1)
-weighted_pred <int> E..V...... Set 1 to enable weighted prediction (from 0 to 1) (default 0)
-b_ref_mode <int> E..V...... Use B frames as references (from 0 to 2) (default disabled)
disabled 0 E..V...... B frames will not be used for reference
each 1 E..V...... Each B frame will be used for reference
middle 2 E..V...... Only (number of B frames)/2 will be used for reference
-dpb_size <int> E..V...... Specifies the DPB size used for encoding (0 means automatic) (from 0 to INT_MAX) (default 0)
