ffmpeg-hardware-acceleration

When to Use This Skill

Activate when GPU acceleration is needed:

• Encoding speed is critical (10-30x faster than CPU)
• Processing large batches of videos
• Real-time encoding for streaming
• Server-side transcoding at scale
• Docker containers with GPU passthrough

GPU encoding trades some quality for massive speed. Use -cq, -qp, or -global_quality for quality control.

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