# Is my nVidia GPU actually doing the encoding?
**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/is-my-nvidia-gpu-actually-doing-the-encoding/3193
**Category:** Hardware Encoding
**Created:** [October 20, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/is-my-nvidia-gpu-actually-doing-the-encoding/3193 "2019-10-20T18:30:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@mike808](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/mike808)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/is-my-nvidia-gpu-actually-doing-the-encoding/3193/1 "2019-10-20T18:30:40Z")
I’ve got an nVidia card, and MCEBuddy is set to to HEVC (H.265) transcoding. However, I’m not sure that’s what the logs are saying, and I see 100% CPU use during a conversion. Am I missing a config setting someplace?
I’ve got a 750ti running the latest nVidia drivers 436.48 on Win10x64 and 1903 (build 18362.418).
```
WARNING> 2019-10-19T16:39:01 MCEBuddy.AppWrapper.AMDQuery --> AMD driver not detected or driver is not compatible
INFORMATION> --> AMD AMF encoding support available -> False
INFORMATION> 2019-10-19T16:39:01 MCEBuddy.Engine.ConversionJob --> Converting
INFORMATION> 2019-10-19T16:39:01 MCEBuddy.Transcode.ConvertWithHandbrake --> Checking for Unsupported profile for container / codec com
bination
INFORMATION> 2019-10-19T16:39:01 MCEBuddy.Transcode.ConvertWithFfmpeg --> Checking for Unsupported profile for container / codec combin
ation
INFORMATION> 2019-10-19T16:39:01 MCEBuddy.Transcode.ConvertWithHandbrake --> Checking for Unsupported profile for container / codec com
bination
INFORMATION> 2019-10-19T16:39:01 MCEBuddy.Transcode.Convert --> Converting with Handbrake, type: SoftwareOnly, gpu: {
"hardwareBrand": "Any",
"codecType": "Undefined",
"hardwareCodecPresent": false,
"h265Codec": false,
"h264Codec": false
}
```
Why is h265Codec showing as “false”? Do I need to explicitly choose the nVidia GPU brand?
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/is-my-nvidia-gpu-actually-doing-the-encoding/3193/2 "2019-10-20T20:17:56Z")
Need the conversion logs
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### Author:  [@mike808](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/mike808)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/is-my-nvidia-gpu-actually-doing-the-encoding/3193/3 "2019-10-20T21:45:52Z")
Attached.[Americas Test Kitchen-S19E16-Italian Classics-2019-03-26.TiVo-MKV-TV-HD-2019-10-20T15-24-37.7758630-05-00.log](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/uploads/short-url/kU2Jcc86uRdFqJpqbmNwFk0i1yi.log) (93.7 KB)
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/is-my-nvidia-gpu-actually-doing-the-encoding/3193/4 "2019-10-21T19:41:15Z")
The logs to debug. Can’t see much in this. It is detecting your GPU but the logs aren’t detailed enough to show any thing else.
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### Author:  [@mike808](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/mike808)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/is-my-nvidia-gpu-actually-doing-the-encoding/3193/5 "2019-10-22T00:45:40Z")
will do this weekend. MCEBuddy could be using it, transcodes don’t take anywhere near as long as handbrake (standalone, current version) that is supposed to be using the nVenc codec.
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### Author:  [@mike808](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/mike808)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/is-my-nvidia-gpu-actually-doing-the-encoding/3193/6 "2020-03-19T15:20:09Z")
See [other topic](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/how-to-confirm-hw-gpu-conversions-are-used/3487/11) on this. The GTX-750ti (Maxwell) does not support H.265 encoding (or decoding). I need a 1050 or above/newer to do HW/GPU encoding to H.265.
It does do H.264 (mp4) in HW/GPU, though.