This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.
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nvidia-patch

Requirements:

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64)

step-by-step :

Download driver

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/375.39/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.39.run http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/396.24/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.24.run

Install driver 396.24

mkdir /opt/nvidia && cd /opt/nvidia
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/396.24/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.24.run
chmod +x ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.24.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.24.run

Check driver

nvidia-smi

Patch libnvidia-encode.so (with backup)

bash ./patch.sh

Silent patch libnvidia-encode.so

bash ./patch.sh -s

Rollback libnvidia-encode.so (restore from backup)

bash ./patch.sh -r

See also

https://habr.com/post/262563/

If you experience CreateBitstreamBuffer failed: out of memory (10), then you have to lower buffers number used for every encoding session. If you are using ffmpeg, consider using this patch.