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ffmpeg GPU Graphics Card Multimedia Uncategorized

Building ffmpeg with libva support

…supporting AMD and Intel GPUs. If everything went fine, the output of ffmpeg should look something like this:

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ffmpeg GPU Graphics Card Multimedia

Building ffmpeg with CUDA support

If you want to use GPU accelerated video encoding in Linux you’ll end up using ffmpeg (even if you may not know that it’s used underneath the software you’re running). While experimenting with a Nvidia card, I found myself struggling with the Nvidia documentation about how to build ffmpeg with CUDA support. Fix missing dependencies […]

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Artificial Intelligence Docker GPU Graphics Card Large Language Model (LLM) Virtualization

Installing Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu for dockered ollama

For some tests with a large language model (LLM) I needed a test system with docker and a Nvidia card (for faster AI processing). Here’s what it takes to convert a basic Ubuntu 24.04.1 installation into a docker based LLM test machine: First let’s have a look at our hardware: Next: Install basic Nvidia drivers: […]