The Livepeer protocol enables those with the excess hardware and bandwidth
available to earn additional revenue by advertising video encoding services on
an open marketplace, and using their idle hardware to perform the work. There
are a number of different types of hardware capable of encoding video in a
performant and cost-effective manner, each with its own unique capabilities and
terms of use.Some of these terms restrict users from utilizing their own hardware to its full
capacity through artificial restrictions. While googling for open-source patches
reveals workarounds to these limitations, Livepeer encourages operators on the
network to read and comply with the terms of service and usage policies of the
hardware that they are using.
If you are using an NVIDIA card, check you are running the latest driver version
on your NVIDIA GPU, or update your driver before proceeding to benchmarking. You
can access the GPU configuration, Display Adapters, and drivers for your
operating system either directly or through your NVIDIA Control Panel.Concurrent session caps for NVIDIA hardware can be found
here.