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Does this support hardware video encoding (h264)? There are a lot of SBCs with Mali GPUs that could use video encoding support.
by mgamache 7y ago
Does this support hardware video encoding (h264)? There are a lot of SBCs with Mali GPUs that could use video encoding support.
- StudentStuff 7y agoH.264 and H.265 decoding is handled by the VPU, and there was already a successful kickstarter to add mainline support for that: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-support-in-the-official-linux-kernel/comments https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-s... Ditto for the HDMI PHY, you can spin up Xorg with a fully libre stack on nearly any of the Allwinner boards from OrangePi, FriendlyARM, etc. The Mali GPU is really only useful for OpenGL ES (aka video games).
- sigmaris 7y agoGenerally the SoCs used will have a separate video encoder IP-block that's not part of the Mali GPU. For example the "Cedar" video engine on Allwinner SoCs, Rockchip's VPU, Samsung's Multi-Function Codec, Qualcomm's Venus.