I’ve been testing hardware accelerated transcoding with i5-13500H recently. In general things work great, the CPU rarely breaks a sweat and the GPU produces really impressive results. However, I found that when turning on PGS subtitles in the web client it forced the server to transcode the video …

Hardware-based subtitle burn-in is (or at least was) being looked at, but you’re right that it’s currently done in software: Single thread subtitle burn in, is there any fix to this? Possibility of GPU usage? - #2 by ChuckPa

This is great input. Thank you. We’re working on this (new development in the new team) when we’re not fixing bugs dangling from ages-past. This is a big boost to our efforts!

Is this part of the ‘at some point in the not too distant future’ progress you guys are making re burn in subs using gpu? I’m very interested in this, much like others I guess!

[image] Color corruption on resize when HW transcoding HEVC content - Synology DS920+ NAS & Devices Subtitle burning has been the bane of transcoding since the beginning. That said … We found a way to burn in PGS, VOBSUB, and DVDRIP subtitles in hardware We’re finishin…

This is a big issue for my friends/family using clients that don’t have great sub format support. I’d love it if I didn’t have to tell them to use a different device (or walk less technically-inclined family members through downloading SRT subs). Would be very very happy if this just worked using H…

[image] Seiru: One question, the original post here mentioned a GPU, but would this work accelerated on Intel quicksync as well? Yes. QuickSync is Intel’s branding for their embedded GPUs. Intel Quick Sync Video Intel Quick Sync Video is Intel's brand for its dedicated video encod…

Burn-in subtitles using `overlay_vaapi`?

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