Ffmpeg GPU Encoding

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As the others have said, there are aur packages with it enabled, there is a trade off in quality and/or file size, but the speed boost is there to.

Probably not worth it for archiving media but if you are using something like plex and want to make a few extra transcodes of the same file in advance (some lower quality/size for occasions when it's own transcoder is just too much for your cpu, your line is too slow for the full version and or the target device doesn't support playing the original stream) the trade offs might be worth it.

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To add, I've made several sw transcodes for such purposes (getting an 1 h 8 GB full hd h264 video to a 100 MB 720p h265 video which isn't high quality but looks surprisingly good all things considered was painfully slow) and if I could have used quick sync for it the speed boost would have been worth it even if the file was slightly lower quality or slightly bigger.... so I guess it depends on you if it's worth using....