FFMPEG no longer supports nvenc hwardware encoding out of the box

[DiegoRivera]

FFMPEG previously supported NVENC encoding (nvenc, h264_nvenc, hevc_nvenc, nvenc_hevc) out-of-the-box, but no more. I had to follow this tutorial (https://askubuntu.com/questions/778100/how-to-install-compile-nvenc-in-ubuntu) to build them.

Naturally this is becoming tedious as each time FFMPEG is updated, new packages need to be (re-)built to enable the codecs again. This is important since some dependent software programs rely specifically on those codecs.

Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: ffmpeg 7:4.1.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 7 10:17:56 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-04-18 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
SourcePackage: ffmpeg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.