mediafoundation

Microsoft MediaFoundation plugin.

This plugin consists of various hardware/software video encoders software audio encoders, and video capture (from webcam) elements.

GstMediaFoundation plugin supports H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9, codecs for hardware-accelerate encoding.

However, depending on the hardware it runs on, some elements might not be registered in case that underlying hardware doesn't support the feature.

Moreover, depending on hardware vendor's MediaFoundation implementation, secendary GPU may not be usable. In that case, user could use vendor specific plugins, Intel Media SDK and NVCODEC plugins for example.

For a system with multiple MediaFoundation compatible hardwares (i.e., GPU), there can be multiple plugin features having the same role. Also, there would be additional software video encoder element the system meets requirement.

The naming rule for the non-primary encoder is mf{codec}device{index}enc where index is an arbitrary index number of hardware starting from 1.

To get a list of all available elements, user can run

gst-inspect-1.0.exe mediafoundation