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Hardware transcoding for Homebridge cameras
Homebridge re-encodes every camera stream it hands to HomeKit Secure Video, and on Linux it does that on the CPU by default — even when there's a perfectly good GPU in the box. This is how to move that work onto an Intel, NVIDIA or AMD GPU, and how to tell whether it actually worked.
August 2026