Can I do motion estimation before encoding a frame?

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I want to do motion estimation before encoding a frame. Can I capture a frame, then do motion estimation on it with ME only mode, then encode it with non-ME mode in the same encode session?

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Hi.
Application during encode session initialization can set NV_ENC_INITIALIZE_PARAMS::enableMEOnlyMode flag to make it ‘ME only’ session. Once session is set as ‘ME only’, same session cannot be used for encoding.

From your question it is not clear how you want to use output of ME only mode and encode session. ME only output cannot be fed directly for encoding. This output need to be converted to external hint format and then passed to encoder.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

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thank you.

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