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Are there any external hardware encoders/decoders?

• ehutch79 3y ago
  From what I can tell, they mostly live in video cards at this point. There used to be an elgator capture card with some encoding, i _think_/
• ohthatsnotright 3y ago
  El Gato has one, it's really nice: https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/game-capture-4k60-pro https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/game-capture-4k60-pro
  • mbilker 3y ago
    That is a capture card and not an encoder card. It does not feature any accelerated encoding and relies on the host system to provide the video encoding, usually via a dedicated or integrated GPU.
  • LoganDark 3y ago
    It also costs like five times the price of the Pi itself.
• harlanji 3y ago
  I got a metal box with HDMI and an ethernet ports which encodes the HDMI video + audio and serves/publishes H.264 RTMP/TS segments. My intended use case was actually working with Pi's on live streams, installing fresh systems and the like where encoding might not be available anyway. I couldn't find the one online but it looks like there are a few out there. Side note/tangent, the Pi3 was powerful enough to transcode 720p down to lower resolutions in real time.
• lxgr 3y ago
  The quite popular Logitech C920 webcam used to natively support H.264, but they dropped it in a model revision a while ago, because "nearly every computer offered in the market features a chipset that can efficiently encode high definition video at 1080p" [1]. I've used that very camera (without the accelerator) on an RPi 4 myself, and the only way to get acceptable quality was by using the Pi's H.264 hardware encoder. [1] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/video-collaboration/resources/think-tank/articles/article-logitech-and-h264-encoding.html https://www.logitech.com/en-us/video-collaboration/resources...