Once you have downloaded and extracted FFmpeg (and added it to your System PATH), open your terminal or command prompt and run:

While you can use sudo apt install ffmpeg , these versions are often outdated. For the best GPU performance, it is recommended to download the static binaries from johnvansickle.com or compile from source to link against the latest NVIDIA headers.

ffmpeg -encoders | findstr "nvenc" (Windows) ffmpeg -encoders | grep nvenc (Linux/Mac)