Hardware transcoding in windows server 2016 + quadro p400

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Do you have a monitor or dummy plug plugged in to the server?

HW transcoding isn’t working smoothly with Nvidia GPU

I’m using 436.02 with HEVC hw decoding of 4k HDR streams. For me, HW decoding only works when there’s a display plugged into the Quadro. In addition, I have to extend the display to the second GPU as well. To make it a bit less likely for random things to show up there, I set Quadro to 800x600 and configure the displays so that they only touch at a corner. It’s a bit of a hack, but it’s the best I could find. (This is on Windows, I haven’t tested Linux) The new transcoder does seem to help s…