Using NVIDIA Hardware-based Encoder on Docker

You can use NVIDIA hardware-based encoder on Docker with Ant Media Server.

Requirements

On host(18.04 and 20.04)

• Install CUDA Drivers

• Install docker-ce according to the link - https://docs.docker.com/install/

  sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add - sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

1. Add Repos for nvidia-docker2

curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -
distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID)
curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/$distribution/nvidia-docker.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-docker.list
sudo apt-get update

2. Install nvidia-docker2 for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04

sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-docker2
sudo pkill -SIGHUP dockerd

3. Start a docker container with following command

• Ubuntu 18.04

  sudo docker run --runtime=nvidia \ --privileged --network host --name cuda-docker2 \ -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all -e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=compute,utility,video \ -it nvidia/cuda:10.0-runtime-ubuntu18.04

• Ubuntu 20.04

  sudo docker run --runtime=nvidia \ --privileged --network host --name cuda-docker2 \ -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all -e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=compute,utility,video \ -it nvidia/cuda:11.7.0-runtime-ubuntu20.04

4. In this docker container, you can install Ant-Media-Server Enterprise edition. It automatically uses hardware encoder. Alternatively, you can use Ant Media Server Docker file and just change the line FROM ubuntu:20.04 to `FROM nvidia/cuda:11.7.0-runtime-ubuntu20.04'. After that build the image and run the container with below command.

sudo docker run -d --name antmedia --runtime=nvidia --privileged --network host  \
-e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all -e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=compute,utility,video \
-it antmediaserver