Cannot get Hardware Acceleration to work (nvidia)

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I keep getting this error in my logs:
2017-11-22T16:15:46 MCEBuddy.Transcode.ConvertWithFfmpeg → Cannot find supported h264/h265 software/hardware encoder combination in profile, disabling auto hardware encoder adjustments

Just updated to the latest BETA version (11/20)

Full Logs here:

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→ Checking presence and capabilities of NVidia NVENC Hardware encoder
2017-11-22T16:15:43 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Launching process C:\Program Files\MCEBuddy2x\nvidia\nvidiaQuery.exe
2017-11-22T16:15:43 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Process arguments
2017-11-22T16:15:43 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → UI Session Admin Process : True
2017-11-22T16:15:43 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Starting process as a UISession process with Admin privileges. This requires atleast 1 user to be logged into the system (remote desktop or locally)
2017-11-22T16:15:43 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Setting process priority to Normal
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → C:\Program Files\MCEBuddy2x\nvidia\nvidiaQuery.exe Starting…
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Detected 1 CUDA Capable device(s)
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Device 0: “GeForce GTX 1060 6GB”
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version 9.1 / 7.5
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Detected CUDA Driver version = 9.1
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number: 6.1
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Detected CUDA Hardware version = 6.1
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Total amount of global memory: 6144 MBytes (6442450944 bytes)
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → MapSMtoCores for SM 6.1 is undefined. Default to use 128 Cores/SM
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → MapSMtoCores for SM 6.1 is undefined. Default to use 128 Cores/SM
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → (10) Multiprocessors, (128) CUDA Cores/MP: 1280 CUDA Cores
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → GPU Max Clock rate: 1835 MHz (1.84 GHz)
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Memory Clock rate: 4004 Mhz
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Memory Bus Width: 192-bit
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → L2 Cache Size: 1572864 bytes
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Maximum Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z) 1D=(131072), 2D=(131072, 65536), 3D=(16384, 16384, 16384)
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Maximum Layered 1D Texture Size, (num) layers 1D=(32768), 2048 layers
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Maximum Layered 2D Texture Size, (num) layers 2D=(32768, 32768), 2048 layers
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Total amount of shared memory per block: 49152 bytes
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Total number of registers available per block: 65536
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Warp size: 32
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor: 2048
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Maximum number of threads per block: 1024
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Max dimension size of a thread block (x,y,z): (1024, 1024, 64)
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Max dimension size of a grid size (x,y,z): (2147483647, 65535, 65535)
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Maximum memory pitch: 2147483647 bytes
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Texture alignment: 512 bytes
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Concurrent copy and kernel execution: Yes with 2 copy engine(s)
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Run time limit on kernels: Yes
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory: No
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Support host page-locked memory mapping: Yes
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Alignment requirement for Surfaces: Yes
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Device has ECC support: Disabled
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → CUDA Device Driver Mode (TCC or WDDM): WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model)
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA): Yes
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Device PCI Domain ID / Bus ID / location ID: 0 / 1 / 0
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Compute Mode:
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → < Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → deviceQuery, CUDA Driver = CUDART, CUDA Driver Version = 9.1, CUDA Runtime Version = 7.5, NumDevs = 1, Device0 = GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
2017-11-22T16:15:44 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.NVidiaQuery → Result = PASS
→ Process exited with code 0
→ NVidia H.264 Hardware Encoder Detected : True
→ NVidia H.265 Hardware Encoder Detected : True
2017-11-22T16:15:46 MCEBuddy.Transcode.ConvertWithFfmpeg → FFMpeg profile disable software encoder fallback after hardware encoding failure (ffmpeg-DisableSoftwareEncoderFallback) : False
2017-11-22T16:15:46 MCEBuddy.Transcode.ConvertWithFfmpeg → FFMpeg profile optimized for hardware decoding/encoding, disable auto hardware optimization (ffmpeg-UsingHardwareEncoding) : False
2017-11-22T16:15:46 MCEBuddy.Transcode.ConvertWithFfmpeg → Cannot find supported h264/h265 software/hardware encoder combination in profile, disabling auto hardware encoder adjustments
INFORMATION> 2017-11-22T16:15:46 MCEBuddy.Transcode.Convert → Converting with FFMpeg

2

Please dont’ copy paste logs, attach the conversion log so we can get the full picture. Likely your profile has an issue.

3

Apologies, you can see the log here:
Curious George S07E03 Hundley Jr.; Curious George Gets Winded.ts-Convert to MP4-2017-11-22T16-09-19.8295068-08-00.log (575.7 KB)

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The message says that MCEBuddy can’t find a supported format in the configured profile to use a hardware encoder.
That’s correct, you’re using the Profile -> MP4 Unprocessed

It doesn’t encode anything, it copies the original video to preserve quality and format (as mentioned in the profile description). Hence the message.

If you’re using a profile like MP4 Normal or MP4 High Quality you should see the nvenc encoder kick in.