TDA4VM: No video encoder and decoder support in TDA4 SDK 8.0

Marton Berke

Part Number: TDA4VM

He Everyone,

Our project needed to migrate from SDK 07_02_00_06 to 08_00_00_12. After the migration we experienced that the video coded folders and all tiovx support is gone for hardware encoding and decoding, which is needed for our application. We found a mention in the 8.0 release note that the J7 kernel dropped support for encoding and decoding "Video encoder descoped from TIOVX". Unfortunately the release note does not mentions an alternate API to use.

Is there any way to use the hardware encoder and decoder with SDK 8.0?

Thanks!

over 3 years ago

0 Karthik Ramanan over 3 years ago

TI__Guru** 113810 points

Hi Marton,

As noted in this section, https://software-dl.ti.com/jacinto7/esd/processor-sdk-rtos-jacinto7/08_00_00_12/exports/docs/psdk_rtos/docs/user_guide/release_notes_08_00_00_j721e.html#video-codecs you can stay with SDK 7.x or you can move to the SDK 8.x and move to GStreamer based video encode/decode https://software-dl.ti.com/jacinto7/esd/processor-sdk-linux-jacinto7/08_01_00_07/exports/docs/linux/Foundational_Components_Multimedia_D5520_VXE384.html

Regards

Karthik

0 Marton Berke over 3 years ago in reply to Karthik Ramanan

Prodigy 80 points

Thanks for your reply Karthik,

Unfortunately we need to stick to SDK 8.0 because our projects camera does only have a patch for 8.0. The GStreamer approach could still work for us but I would need to call the encoder and decode API from C code.

Could you please provide an example for a similar solution or any resource that could helps us? I did not find any example apps for it in the TI SDK.

Thanks,
Marton

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