How to install VCEEncC

• Windows
• Linux
  • Linux (Ubuntu 24.04)
  • Other Linux OS
    For other Linux OS, building from source will be needed. Please check the build instrcutions.

Windows

1. Install AMD Radeon Graphics driver

2. Download Windows binary

Windows binary can be found from this link. VCEEncC_x.xx_Win32.7z contains 32bit exe file, VCEEncC_x.xx_x64.7z contains 64bit exe file.

VCEEncC could be run directly from the extracted directory.

Linux (Ubuntu 24.04)

1. Install AMD Graphics driver

Download AMD Graphics driver packages for Ubuntu 24.04 from the webpage of AMD.

Extract and run amdgpu-install to install the All-Open stack.

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/25.35.1/ubuntu/noble/amdgpu-install_7.2.1.70201-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get install ./amdgpu-install_7.2.1.70201-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo amdgpu-install -y --opencl=rocr

2. [Workaround] Replace AMF userspace with the 6.4.4 / 25.10 generation

Instead of the latest AMF userspace, install amdgpu-pro-core, libamdenc-amdgpu-pro, and amf-amdgpu-pro from the 6.4.4 / 25.10 generation.

mkdir -p ~/amf-6.4.4
cd ~/amf-6.4.4

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.4.4/ubuntu/pool/proprietary/a/amdgpu-pro-core/amdgpu-pro-core_25.10-2203192.24.04_all.deb
wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.4.4/ubuntu/pool/proprietary/liba/libamdenc-amdgpu-pro/libamdenc-amdgpu-pro_25.10-2203192.24.04_amd64.deb
wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.4.4/ubuntu/pool/proprietary/a/amf-amdgpu-pro/amf-amdgpu-pro_1.4.37-2203192.24.04_amd64.deb

sudo apt remove --purge -y amf-amdgpu-pro libamdenc-amdgpu-pro

sudo apt install -y --allow-downgrades \
  ./amdgpu-pro-core_25.10-2203192.24.04_all.deb \
  ./libamdenc-amdgpu-pro_25.10-2203192.24.04_amd64.deb \
  ./amf-amdgpu-pro_1.4.37-2203192.24.04_amd64.deb

sudo apt-mark hold amdgpu-pro-core libamdenc-amdgpu-pro amf-amdgpu-pro

3. Add user to proper group to use OpenCL

# OpenCL
sudo gpasswd -a ${USER} render
sudo gpasswd -a ${USER} video
sudo reboot

4. Check GPU Recognition Status

Check if your GPU is properly recognized.

sudo apt install vulkan-utils clinfo

Check GPU recognition status using clinfo and vulkaninfo. Especially with vulkaninfo, confirm that your target AMD GPU is recognized as "GPU0".

# Check GPU recognition status with OpenCL
clinfo

# Check GPU recognition status with Vulkan
vulkaninfo --summary

5. Install VCEEncC

Download deb package from this link, and install running the following command line. Please note "x.xx" should be replaced to the target version name.

sudo apt install ./VCEEncC_x.xx_Ubuntu24.04_amd64.deb

6. Check VCEEncC hardware support

Verify that the encoder is actually usable from VCEEncC. If Supported Codecs lists H.264/HEVC, AMF initialization succeeded.

vceencc --check-hw

7. Addtional Tools

There are some features which require additional installations.

Feature	Requirements
avs reader	AvisynthPlus
vpy reader	VapourSynth

8. Others

• Error: "Failed to load OpenCL." when running VCEEncC
  Please check if /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenCL.so exists. There are some cases that only libOpenCL.so.1 exists. In that case, please create a link using following command line.

  sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenCL.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenCL.so