NVENC not available on Windows g2.2xlarge EC2 instance

Wowza Streaming Engine
1

Hello,

We just upgraded to Wowza Streaming Engine 4.

I am trying to enable the hardware encoding on our Windows 2008 server g2.2xlarge EC2 instance and I followed the steps below with no success:

  1. enable the transcoder in the application

  2. set the video/transcoder element as follows:

true

main

mp4:${SourceStreamName}_main

2

Hi,

There are a couple of necessary added steps which are detailed here.

Richard

3

Have you seen this article?

And have you configured .NET Framework 3.5.1 and Desktop Experience ?

Richard

4

Also, side-note on the instance types with 10g througput: it is our understanding that you can only get near that level of throughput between Wowza servers using internal DNS. So you can support a large edge cluster of small ec2 instances. But you are also limited by Java to about 5g of utiiization per JVM. It is possible to run two instances of Wowza on one machine for greater utilization of the network bandwidth

Richard

5

Thanks for the quick replay,

we are actually using Windows EC2 licenses, the steps that you mentioned are for a Linux instance.

Do we need to switch to a Linux server environment for NVENC? I am more comfortable with Windows though.

6

Have you seen this article?

This is what I was missing. I will have to take some time to follow its’ steps.

Thanks’