# NVENC firmware load failed message

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvenc-firmware-load-failed-message/227510>\
**Category:** Jetson AGX Xavier\
**Tags:** nvbugs, gstreamer, encoder\
**Created:** [September 9, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvenc-firmware-load-failed-message/227510 "2022-09-09T15:51:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![samhhenderson](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@samhhenderson](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/samhhenderson)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvenc-firmware-load-failed-message/227510/1 "2022-09-09T15:51:54Z")

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On my Xavier AGX 32GB, JetPack 5.0.2, I’m seeing a firmware load failure message once per boot after launching an NVENC encoder job (such as sample 15\_multivideo\_encode). It is recorded in dmesg as follows:

```auto
[214.381155] falcon 154c0000.nvenc: Direct firmware load for nvhost_nvenc070.fw failed with error -2
[214.381517] falcon 154c0000.nvenc: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: nvhost_nvenc070.fw
[214.403298] falcon 154c0000.nvenc: looking for firmware in subdirectory
[214.686799] falcon 15a80000.nvenc1: Direct firmware load for nvhost_nvenc070.fw failed with error -2
[214.687131] falcon 15a80000.nvenc1: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: nvhost_nvenc070.fw
[214.692746] falcon 15a80000.nvenc1: looking for firmware in subdirectory

```

Despite the error the encoding operations appear to work well.

Is this a problem that may impact performance or a false-alarm?

The message is reported for both GStreamer and Multimedia API launches.

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**Author:** ![DaneLLL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/danelll/32/14043_2.png) [@DaneLLL](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/DaneLLL)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvenc-firmware-load-failed-message/227510/3 "2022-09-12T03:24:20Z")

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Hi,  
The prints are not expected and we are checking this. If encoding function works fine in your use-case, please temporarily ignore it.

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**Author:** ![razvanphp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/razvanphp/32/22259_2.png) [@razvanphp](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/razvanphp)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvenc-firmware-load-failed-message/227510/6 "2022-10-07T07:01:26Z")

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we have the same error in 5.0.2, but in our case, the gstreamer audio does not work. It worked in 4.6…

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/system/32/68080_2.png) [@system](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvenc-firmware-load-failed-message/227510/7 "2022-10-21T07:02:18Z")

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Closed on October 21, 2022, 7:02am UTC

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