Dual Graphics

[spetrillo]

Hello all,

I have a PC that has the onboard Intel HD 630 graphics, as well as discrete AMD Radeon graphics. Is there any way to use both when transcoding videos? Right now the AMD Radeon is the default and it will only handle up to 3 video transcodes. I would love to see the Intel kick in and work on the others that are left.

Thanks,
Steve

[mduell]

Open another copy of HB with QSV as your encoder.

[Rodeo314]

Open another copy of HB with QSV as your encoder.

Ever since a single instance can perform multiple queued items in parallel, I'm not sure multi-instance won't be fighting over queued items?

[mduell]

You can launch different instances with separate queues.

[Rodeo314]

You can launch different instances with separate queues.

Are you talking about Windows specifically? Under macOS, you can no longer do it safely (if you build a queue in the first instance before launching the second instance, the latter will import the existing queue and happily encode the same item at the first instance, concurrently).

[mduell]

Sometimes I have optimism about the angry spaghetti, and then it bites me again.

OP, use the CLI.

[Rodeo314]

Sometimes I have optimism about the angry spaghetti, and then it bites me again.

I mean, other than very special use-cases, having one instance, one queue with multiple concurrent encoding processes is much more practical than multi-instance, and the complexity of keeping both multi-process and multi-instance working together is hardly worth the development and maintenance effort.