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NVIDIA NVENC / NVDEC¶
Definition¶
NVENC (NVIDIA Encoder) and NVDEC (NVIDIA Decoder) are the dedicated fixed-function hardware video engines present on most modern NVIDIA GPUs, separate from the general CUDA cores. They provide low-power, low-latency video encode/decode for codecs including H.264, HEVC, and AV1 (on newer generations).
Stub page — named in sources/2026-03-09-meta-ffmpeg-at-meta-media-processing-at-scale as one of the hardware-accelerator classes exposed through FFmpeg's standard hardware-accelerated video codec API, alongside AMD UVD, Intel Quick Sync Video, and Meta's internal MSVP.
Role in FFmpeg¶
Enable high-throughput transcoding pipelines to offload decode + encode off the host CPU onto the GPU's dedicated media engines. Exposed in FFmpeg through the same abstract API surface all supported hardware accelerators use, so pipeline code is largely the same across NVIDIA / AMD / Intel / Meta hardware.