Hardware Acceleration Overview

Emby supports a broad range of hardware accelerated video transcoding methods on its supported platforms:

Windows

Emby supports the following hardware acceleration variants on Windows

• Nvidia NVDEC & NVENC
  API for video encoding and decoding acceleration using Nvidia GPUs

• Intel QuickSync Video
  Intel's brand for its dedicated video encoding and decoding hardware core

• AMD AMF
  AMD Advanced Media Framework - multimedia API AMD hardware for real-time processing of multimedia

• Microsoft DXVA
  Microsoft DirectX Video Acceleration API - hardware independent API for hardware accelerated video decoding

Linux

Emby supports the following hardware acceleration variants on Linux

• Nvidia NVDEC & NVENC
  API for video encoding and decoding acceleration using Nvidia GPUs

• VA API]
  Video Acceleration API for Linux is supported by several device manufacturers

• Intel QuickSync Video
  Intel's brand for its dedicated video encoding and decoding hardware core

Android

Emby supports the following hardware acceleration variants on Android

• Android MediaCodec
  MediaCodec is Android's integrated API for video de- and endoding.

• OpenMax
  OpenMax is an API specification covering various aspects of media acceleration. On Android it is the standard API for codec implementations while applications are typically using MediaCodec