title: Does FFMPEG utilize CUDA or any other hardware acceleration yet?
body: <p>Simple question, but I am having trouble finding the answer.</p>
  
  <p>We are deciding on a transcoding engine (preferrably open source) and it looks to me that FFMPEG does not utilize hardware acceleration, but I am not sure.</p>
  
  <p>I believe ffmpeg uses libavcodec, the same library used in countless other products, such as Handbrake. I can't believe they don't support hardware acceleration, therefore, my question.</p>