Hardware h264 encoding using vaapi

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This plugin is designed to enable hardware-accelerated transcoding profiles using VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) on Linux systems. It's important to note that this is an experimental test project , and significant tinkering will likely be necessary to get it working properly with your specific hardware configuration.

For more information on vaapi and hardware acceleration:

- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html#enabling-hardware-acceleration
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration#Comparison_tables

Running the Docker image

Official PeerTube Docker images do not ship with the required libraries for hardware transcoding.
To enable VAAPI hardware acceleration, you must use the custom image provided by this repository.

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- Intel Gen 8 and newer → use the ihd image tag
- Intel Gen 7 and older → use the i965 image tag

Replace chocobozzz/peertube:production-trixie with ghcr.io/althafvly/peertube-vaapi:production-trixie-ihd or ghcr.io/althafvly/peertube-vaapi:production-trixie-i965

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The container must be added to the host render group.
You need to provide the numeric ID of this group.

You can retrieve it with the following command:

``bash
grep "$(ls -l /dev/dri/renderD128 | awk '{print($4)}')" /etc/group | cut -d':' -f3
`

`yaml
# usual peertube configuration
# ...

# add these keys
group_add:
-
devices:
# VAAPI Devices
- /dev/dri:/dev/dri
``