# Does Hardware Acceleration work for VP8 Encoding?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/does-hardware-acceleration-work-for-vp8-encoding/50770>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 16, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-hardware-acceleration-work-for-vp8-encoding/50770 "2018-02-16T02:14:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![john\_mcqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@john\_mcqueen](https://community.wowza.com/u/john_mcqueen)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-hardware-acceleration-work-for-vp8-encoding/50770/1 "2018-02-16T02:14:04Z")

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Is there support for GPU encoding/decoding for H264 -\> VP8 & VP8 -\> H264 on any of the AWS EC2 instances?