If and why is a display device required to use QuickSync on 2nd gen Core i7 ?
Display device required to use QuickSync ?
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 06:33
Display device required to use QuickSync ?
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Tue, 01/31/2012 - 13:34
Its not a MSDK defined requirement. If the SDK can access the device and use it it will. A possible alternative had been discussed in this thread:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showthread.php?t=86355&o=a&s=lr
Hope it helps..
-Eric
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Tue, 01/31/2012 - 15:16
Eric, thanks for teh answre and link. Actually we want to use QuickSync without any display connected, i.e. in a headless mode, just streaming data in over network, transcoding it and streaming it out over network again. So, we neither have a display attached to the intel GPU nor do we have a secondary GPU.
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Wed, 02/22/2012 - 06:36
The last post in the above link shows how to enable QuickSync when the Intel GPU isn't connected. For HW acceleration work (DXVA), a screen must be connected to the GPU that creates the device. This is a DirectX9 limitation. What you can do is connect a screen to one port and extend the desptop to another, later remove the actual connection. The trick is to keep the disconnected screen a part of the desktop so DirectX will enumurate it. Annoying? Yes. But drivers must comply with the OS requirements.