diff --git a/transcoder/src/hwaccel.go b/transcoder/src/hwaccel.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0405be6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/transcoder/src/hwaccel.go
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package src
+
+func DetectHardwareAccel() HwAccelT {
+	name := "disabled"
+	switch name {
+	case "nvidia":
+		return HwAccelT{
+			Name: "nvidia",
+			DecodeFlags: []string{
+				// TODO: check if this can always be enabled (for example with weird video formats)
+				"-hwaccel", "cuda",
+				// this flag prevents data to go from gpu space to cpu space
+				// it forces the whole dec/enc to be on the gpu. We want that.
+				"-hwaccel_output_format", "cuda",
+			},
+			EncodeFlags: []string{
+				"-c:v", "h264_nvenc",
+				"-preset", "fast",
+			},
+		}
+	default:
+		return HwAccelT{
+			Name:        "disabled",
+			DecodeFlags: []string{},
+			EncodeFlags: []string{
+				"-c:v", "libx264",
+				// superfast or ultrafast would produce a file extremly big so we prever veryfast or faster.
+				"-preset", "faster",
+			},
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/transcoder/src/settings.go b/transcoder/src/settings.go
index 456f982e..c54573e3 100644
--- a/transcoder/src/settings.go
+++ b/transcoder/src/settings.go
@@ -13,9 +13,17 @@ func GetEnvOr(env string, def string) string {
 type SettingsT struct {
 	Outpath  string
 	Metadata string
+	HwAccel  HwAccelT
+}
+
+type HwAccelT struct {
+	Name        string
+	DecodeFlags []string
+	EncodeFlags []string
 }
 
 var Settings = SettingsT{
 	Outpath:  GetEnvOr("GOCODER_CACHE_ROOT", "/cache"),
 	Metadata: GetEnvOr("GOCODER_METADATA_ROOT", "/metadata"),
+	HwAccel:  DetectHardwareAccel(),
 }
diff --git a/transcoder/src/stream.go b/transcoder/src/stream.go
index df516574..af19ef4f 100644
--- a/transcoder/src/stream.go
+++ b/transcoder/src/stream.go
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ import (
 type Flags int32
 
 const (
-	AudioF Flags = 1 << 0
-	VideoF Flags = 1 << 1
+	AudioF   Flags = 1 << 0
+	VideoF   Flags = 1 << 1
+	Transmux Flags = 1 << 3
 )
 
 type StreamHandle interface {
@@ -166,6 +167,12 @@ func (ts *Stream) run(start int32) error {
 		"-nostats", "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "warning",
 	}
 
+	// do not enabled hardware accelaration when transmuxing
+	// this can either be slower or fail depending on hardware
+	if ts.handle.getFlags()&Transmux == 0 {
+		args = append(args, Settings.HwAccel.DecodeFlags...)
+	}
+
 	if start_ref != 0 {
 		if ts.handle.getFlags()&VideoF != 0 {
 			// This is the default behavior in transmux mode and needed to force pre/post segment to work
diff --git a/transcoder/src/videostream.go b/transcoder/src/videostream.go
index 793c4900..af476f22 100644
--- a/transcoder/src/videostream.go
+++ b/transcoder/src/videostream.go
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ func NewVideoStream(file *FileStream, quality Quality) *VideoStream {
 }
 
 func (vs *VideoStream) getFlags() Flags {
+	if vs.quality == Original {
+		return VideoF & Transmux
+	}
 	return VideoF
 }
 
@@ -27,18 +30,24 @@ func (vs *VideoStream) getOutPath(encoder_id int) string {
 }
 
 func (vs *VideoStream) getTranscodeArgs(segments string) []string {
-	if vs.quality == Original {
-		return []string{"-map", "0:V:0", "-c:v", "copy"}
+	args := []string{
+		"-map", "0:V:0",
 	}
 
-	return []string{
-		// superfast or ultrafast would produce a file extremly big so we prever veryfast or faster.
-		"-map", "0:V:0", "-c:v", "libx264", "-crf", "21", "-preset", "faster",
+	if vs.quality == Original {
+		args = append(args,
+			"-c:v", "copy",
+		)
+		return args
+	}
+
+	args = append(args, Settings.HwAccel.EncodeFlags...)
+	args = append(args,
 		// resize but keep aspect ratio (also force a width that is a multiple of two else some apps behave badly.
 		"-vf", fmt.Sprintf("scale=-2:'min(%d,ih)'", vs.quality.Height()),
 		// Even less sure but bufsize are 5x the avergae bitrate since the average bitrate is only
 		// useful for hls segments.
-		"-bufsize", fmt.Sprint(vs.quality.MaxBitrate() * 5),
+		"-bufsize", fmt.Sprint(vs.quality.MaxBitrate()*5),
 		"-b:v", fmt.Sprint(vs.quality.AverageBitrate()),
 		"-maxrate", fmt.Sprint(vs.quality.MaxBitrate()),
 		// Force segments to be split exactly on keyframes (only works when transcoding)
@@ -48,5 +57,6 @@ func (vs *VideoStream) getTranscodeArgs(segments string) []string {
 		// we disable it to prevents whole scenes from behing removed due to the -f segment failing to find the corresonding keyframe
 		"-sc_threshold", "0",
 		"-strict", "-2",
-	}
+	)
+	return args
 }