Using Gstreamer Plugins with Kernel >= v4.1

efge — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 08:27:38 GMT

Hi,

i currently try to use the gstreamer-plugins (http://github.com/Freescale/gstreamer-imx) with a more recent, mainline kernel (4.1).

As far as i can see the plugins at least rely on the mxc_ipu device, which was registered on the older freescale kernel

(drivers/mxc/ipu_device.c) versions. As the mainline kernel does not contain code for a IPU device node but we need to use

a more recent version of the kernel, i have a few questions on how to proceed:

- are there some patches available for kernel >= 4.1 or the gstreamer-plugins to get the gstreamer work?

- is there another way to en-/decode video data (and overlay) using the hardware accelerated functionality? - and which tools can i use?

Thanks in advance!

Greetings

Fabian

Re: Using Gstreamer Plugins with Kernel >= v4.1

igorpadykov — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:31:56 GMT

HI Fabian

seems latest kernel with ipu support is 3.14.38

freescale provides hardware accelerated codecs for each kernel release,

I am afraid there is no another way to en-/decode video data (and overlay) using

the hardware accelerated functionality.

Best regards

igor

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