Environment setup for DWM

Question
What is the environment setup required for setting up DWM?
 

Answer & Resolution
To set up DWM, you need a system that meets a few basic hardware and software requirements:

• Hardware:

  • An Intel-based CPU

  • At least 8 GB of RAM

  • An NVIDIA GPU that supports hardware video encoding/decoding (needed for CUDA acceleration)

• Operating System:

  • Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, or 24.04

• Software:

  • NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 11.1 or later

  • Python 3, pip

  • A few system libraries including:

    • libva-drm2

    • libvdpau1

    • libmediainfo0v5

    • libpng16-16

After installing the NVIDIA driver and CUDA, you can run nvidia-smi to confirm that your GPU is detected and everything is set up correctly.

This environment ensures that the DWM Pre-Embedder can run smoothly and process videos with hardware-accelerated watermarking.
 

References
DoveRunner Distributor Watermarking Guide