Aw: non-GPL H.264 video encoder element for Raspberry Pi 3 or 3B+?

[Krzysztof Konopko]

Unfortunately gst-mmal hasn't got any encoders implemented (yet) :)
Kris
On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 07:08 +0200, P S wrote:
> Helo Matthew,
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> take a look at https://github.com/youviewtv/gst-mmal.git
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> It's working, i use them.
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> Peter
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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 05. Juni 2018 um 05:12 Uhr
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> Von: "Matthew Thyer" <matthew.thyer at adelaide.edu.au>
> 
> An: "Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer" <gstreamer-
> devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> 
> Betreff: non-GPL H.264 video encoder element for Raspberry Pi 3 or
> 3B+?
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> I'm looking for a non-GPL licenced x264 video encoder that I can use
> on the Raspberry Pi v3 (or 3 B+) hardware running some Linux variant.
> Ideally this encoder should support the NEON video acceleration block
> that is part of the Raspberry Pi v3 or 3B+ SoC.
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> In the following 19-Nov-2017 post, Nicolas Dufresne summarises use
> cases for some H.264 encoders:
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> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-devel/2017-November/
> 066181.html
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> The encoders Nicolas lists are: x264enc (GPL), vaapih264enc (Intel
> H/W), nvh264enc (nvidia H/W), openh264enc (Cisco free codec for PCs),
> omxh264enc (Raspberry Pi) & v4l2h264enc (with GStreamer 1.14+).
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> Of these, it would seem that omxh264enc & v4l2h264enc would be of
> interest.
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> I've not been able to get the video4linux2 plugin (from gst-plugins-
> good) to provide more than the three elements: v4l2src, v4l2sink &
> v4l2radio even when I compile v4l-utils v1.14.2 and gstreamer v1.14.1
> from source.
> 
> I see that the v4l2h264enc functionality was added to gst-plugins-
> good via Bug 728438
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728438 but I clearly don't
> understand how to gain access to it.
> 
> Is it possible to use this on a Raspberry Pi 3 or 3B+ and would it be
> NEON accelerated?
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> I have tried an earlier version of omxh264enc but it’s didn’t like
> the stream from my camera and I’m yet to try again with GStreamer
> release 1.14.1.
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> I'm aware of the very good x264enc element which is nominally GPL
> licenced but is supposed to be available under alternate licencing if
> you contact them but all three attempts I have made to do so have
> gone unanswered.
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> Does someone know of a contact method that works?
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> Please help!
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> ---
> 
> Matthew Thyer
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> (08) 8313 9283
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> 4.38 Ingkarni Wardli
> 
> Adelaide University
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