From https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/x264EncodingGuide "FFmpeg today doesn't support any means of GPU encoding, outside of libx264." It uses the GPU with libx264. Here is an example for the output of a 720p movie: [qtp14533462-56 ] INFO - 24:13:10.398 - e : input URL: http://192.168.1.7:58050/stream/vi...

Hi folks, I wanted my raspberry pi to server me as a media transcoder for my chromecast. I use the 2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian-image, got 256 MB on the GPU and overclocked it to 1 GHz. http://blog.scphillips.com/2013/07/playing-music-on-a-raspberry-pi-using-upnp-and-dlna-revisited/ helped me setting ...

Fox0 wrote:Got it working the ffmpeg version is used was the problem. Compiled ffmpeg myself with libmp3lame and it seems to work fine now.

Can you provide me a version of your compiled ffmpeg?
I had problems with mine. The logfile stated that the transcoding started but nothing ever happened