NVIDIA Jetson Xavier - H264 encoding, decoding, and streaming pipelines

NVIDIA®Jetson Xavier™
Introduction
SoM Overview Carrier Boards NVIDIA Xavier Developer Kit Connect Tech Rogue Connect Tech Mimic Software Support NVIDIA JetPack
JetPack 5.X
Getting Started Installing JetPack Flashing the board with GUI installer JetPack Components Compiling Source Code Flashing the Board from Cmdline Performance Tuning Evaluating Performance Set Values Manually Tuning Power Maximizing Performance
Development in the Board
Getting into the Board Using Serial Console Using SSH Using Ubuntu Login Installing Packages
Video Capture and Display
Description Supported Cameras Imx219 Driver Software Support Using GStreamer Using Libargus
Processors
HD Audio and Video Subystem Video Encoder Video Decoder JPEG Encoder and Decoder Video Image Compositor Audio Processing Engine Deep Learning Accelerator Volta GPU Description Using CUDA Using OpenGL
Interfaces
I2C SD/eMMC Controller USB Controller
GStreamer Pipelines
Capture and Display H264 H265 VP9 MPEG4 Simultaneous Streams Compositor
Deep Learning
TensorRT Using TensorRT integrated with Tensorflow Parsing a Tensorflow model for TensorRT Parsing Caffe model for TensorRT Building TensorRT API examples Deep Learning Accelerator Software Support Deep Learning Tutorials Jetson Inference Jetson Reinforcement
RidgeRun Products
GstPTZR GstCUDA GstColorTransfer GstWebRTC GstRtspSink GstInterpipe GstInference GStreamer Daemon GstShark
Reference Documentation
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H264 encoding

gst-OMX

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! omxh264enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h264, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' \
! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE -e

Performance:

Operation Mode	CPU%	GPU%	FPS
0 (max performance)	0.0	0.18	30.01
1 (min power)	0.57	66.38	30.02
2 (default)	2.27	0.76	30.01

The omxh264enc element allows for change between profiles by using the profile property, the posible values are baseline, high and main.

gst-V4L2

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \ 
! nvv4l2h264enc bitrate=8000000 ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE -e

Dual H264 encoding

gst-OMX

FILE_A=filenameA.mp4
FILE_B=filenameB.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! tee name=streams \
streams. ! omxh264enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h264, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_A \
streams. ! omxh264enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h264, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_B

gst-V4L2

FILE_A=filenameA.mp4
FILE_B=filenameB.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' ! tee name=streams \
streams. ! nvv4l2h264enc bitrate=8000000 ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_A \
streams. ! nvv4l2h264enc bitrate=8000000 ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_B

H264 decoding

gst-OMX

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=$FILE ! qtdemux name=demux demux.video_0 ! queue ! h264parse ! omxh264dec ! nvoverlaysink -e

Performance:

Operation Mode	CPU%	GPU%	FPS
0 (max performance)	0.43	0.72	30.02
1 (min power)	0	0	0
2 (default)	0.0	34.06	30.02

gst-V4L2

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=$FILE ! qtdemux ! queue ! h264parse ! nvv4l2decoder ! nv3dsink -e

H264 UDP Streaming

Server

gst-OMX

CLIENT_IP=<IP_ADDRESS>
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! omxh264enc control-rate=2 bitrate=4000000 ! 'video/x-h264, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' \
! h264parse ! rtph264pay mtu=1400 ! udpsink host=$CLIENT_IP port=5000 sync=false async=false

gst-V4L2

CLIENT_IP=<IP_ADDRESS>
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvv4l2h264enc bitrate=8000000 ! h264parse ! rtph264pay mtu=1400 ! udpsink host=$CLIENT_IP port=5000 sync=false async=false

PC client

gst-launch-1.0 udpsrc port=5000 ! application/x-rtp,encoding-name=H264,payload=96 ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! queue ! avdec_h264 ! xvimagesink sync=false async=false -e

Latency OMX

• 1080p@30fps
• H264
• Bitrate 4Mbps
• Latency=216ms