Hardware Transcoding

Mezzmo server can take advantage of hardware-based decoding and encoding via Nvdia NVENC, Intel Quick Sync and Microsoft Direct3D technologies. This can provide significantly faster transcoding speeds (as compared to software-based transcoding) and greatly lessen the overall load on your computer's CPU.

To turn on hardware transcoding, go to the Transcoding Setting dialog and go to the Hardware acceleration section to select your preferred hardware decoding and hardware encoding settings.

Note: If the Use Intel Quick Sync for faster transcoding button is disabled, then the possible reasons are:

• Your CPU does not have Quick Sync features. You can check your CPU model's features at Intel's ARK eb site - http://ark.intel.com/
• Mezzmo could not locate Intel's Quick Sync DLLs on your computer. Mezzmo needs these DLLs to communicate with your CPU to use Intel's Quick Sync features. You can download the Quick Sync DLLs by installing the Intel Media SDK. It is a free download from https://software.intel.com/en-us/media-sdk/download.

1. Run Windows Explorer and right-click on Computer and click Properties.
2. On the System window, make a note of your Processor type & model.
3. In your web browser, go to http://ark.intel.com/ and search for your CPU model (e.g. i7-4790K).
4. View the specifications page for the CPU and you should find a Intel® Quick Sync Video section and it should state Yes.