HW Acceleration for transcoding

[MikeG.6.5]

I have already mentioned this to both Shawn and Quote. Going to put it in the forums as an official request to get it on the radar.

Transcoding media from one codec or container is a very CPU intensive operation. Even on the i3-4330 CPU in the 7004T model it can bring the powerful CPU to it's knees trying to convert media. All of the CPU's Asustor has used have some form of HW Acceleration built into the CPU/GPU. As such any or all of the models can benefit from making this work.

The main requirement would be the code required from Intel to make use of the GPU to make this happen. As a vendor selling chips from Intel, Asustor is better positioned to ask for the code than individual users would be.

Supposedly, Asustor's own app LooksGood is using something akin to HWAccel already. If this is the case, how about making that available for other applications by adhering to the ffmpeg standards and releasing this code to be used with stand alone versions of ffmpeg. As LooksGood has so many limitations the only major advantage it has is the ability to transcode media. I'm using scripts now to do what LooksGood can, in transcoding, and other apps do the other functions a lot better than LooksGood even when the browsers still supported the application.

This shouldn't require any additional licensing of the HW code, as that was already purchased when the CPU was.