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

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

Requirements:

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

step-by-step :

Download driver

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/410.78/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.78.run

Install driver (410.78)

mkdir /opt/nvidia && cd /opt/nvidia
wget https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/410.78/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.78.run
chmod +x ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.78.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.78.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, see option -surfaces ("Number of concurrent surfaces") and try value near -surfaces 8.