Does the i.MX6 support VPU-accelerated MPEG-2 encoding?

[jameshearn]

Does the i.MX6 VPU support VPU-accelerated MPEG-2 encoding? The i.MX 6Solo/6DualLite Applications Processor Reference Manual, Rev. 2, 04/2015 (page 5725) refers to "MPEG-2 encoder partial acceleration" as a feature of the i.MX6 VPU. However, I have been unable to find any further references to this capability in the VPU API Linux Reference Manual, or in the GitHub - Freescale/libimxvpuapi: i.MX VPU API Library source code.

[igorpadykov · Accepted solution]

Hi James

supported decoder as mentioned in attached i.MX_VPU_Application_Programming_Interface_

Linux_Reference_Manual.pdf p.3 :

"MPEG-2
• Fully compatible with ISO/IEC 13182-2 MPEG2 specification in main profile"

Also please check Release Notes Table 10, Table 27. Seems encoder not supported.

Best regards
igor
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