GStreamer 1.0 Codec Engine Plugin

Documentation

The Doxygen documentation can be found at GStreamer 1.0 Codec Engine Plugin Design Documentation.

Supported hardware

Texas Instruments processors that support the Codec Engine API are of interesting.

Processor	Status
DM365	Supported
DM368	Supported
DMVA1	Supported
DMVA2	Supported
DM3730	Not started
OMAP3	Not started
DM6446	Not started

Plugin status

Functionality	Element name	Owner	Status
H.264 encode	ce_h264enc	Melissa	Done
AAC encode	ce_aacenc	Melissa	Done
MPEG4 encode	ce_mpeg4enc	Melissa	Done
MJPEG/JPEG encode	ce_jpegenc	Caarlos	Done
MP3 encode	ce_mp3enc	Diego	Not started
Resizer	???	Melissa	Not started
Dual encoder	???	Michael	Nearly complete
Dual resizer	dualresizer	Carlos	Done
H264 decode	ce_h264dec	Community	Not assigned
JPEG decode	ce_jpegdec	Community	Not assigned
MPEG4 decode	ce_mpeg4dec	Community	Not assigned
AAC decode	ce_aacdec	Community	Not assigned

Building

The GStreamer 1.0 Codec Engine plugin has build dependencies several GStreamer packages and on TI Codec Engine which is part of the DVSDK. In addition, the processor is an ARM, so the plugin is build using a cross compiler. For all of these reasons, it is easist to build the plugin using the RidgeRun evaluation SDK.

GStreamer core compatibility

Currently, the GStreamer 1.0 Codec Engine plugin is being build with the following GStreamer and related packages:

Package	Version
GStreamer
Base plugin
Good plugin
Bad plugin
av lib

Example pipelines

There are a lot of tested example pipelines available.