Bypassing NVIDIA NVENC transcoding limits

Published 18.04.2022 in Linux, Servers.

Since my server came with a GeForce GT 710, I wanted to harvest it’s powers to transcode my media.

But wait! Nvidia limits consumer cards to only 2 concurrent transcodes!

This is where nvidia-patch comes in.

With this patch we can bypass the limit entirely!

Here is how to use it:

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch.git

2. Make sure you have a compatible driver!

Check the compatibility list here.

For me I chose the version 510.60.02

3. Execute the script!

bash ./patch.sh

And that is it! Now you can transcode as many streams as your GPU can handle!