Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of ventana/codec

Timestamp:

10/09/2018 05:27:21 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

Tim Harvey

Comment:

updated mainline linux distro details

ventana/codec

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-= Ventana Codec (Encoder / Decoder) support =
+See also:
+ * [wiki:ventana/vpu IMX6 Video Processing Unit (VPU)]
+
+
+= Ventana Codec (Encoder / Decoder) support
 Hardware Accelerated Codecs utilize the IMX Video Processing Unit (VPU) hardware block and can provide encoding and decoding various formats with very little CPU overhead in some cases. These codecs are made possible by a combination of:
 * proprietary closed-source binary VPU firmware from Freescale
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-== Standard Codecs (available in Gateworks BSP's) ==
-The standard BSP distribution supports the following codecs:
+== Standard Codecs (available in Gateworks BSP's)
+
+Yocto / Android BSP and Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) pre-built images:
 * Audio (Software codecs):
  - decoders: AAC, MP3, Vorbis, FLAC
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 * Speech codecs: G.723.1 G.726, G.711, G.728AB, NB/WB AMR
 * Image codecs (Hardware codecs): JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG
+
+Ubuntu Bionic (18.04) / Xenial (16.04) pre-built images:
+* Audio (Software codecs) via Gstreamer:
+ - decoders: AAC, MP3, Vorbis, FLAC
+ - encoders: SBC, MP3
+* Video (Hardware codecs):
+ - decoders: MPEG-4 ASP, H.264 HP, MPEG-2 MP via coda/Gstreamer-1.1+
+ - encoders: MPEG-4 SP, H.264 BP via coda/GStreamer-1.14+
+* Speech codecs (via GStreamer) G.723.1 G.726, G.711, G.728AB, NB/WB AMR
+
 
 In addition to the above, an AACPlus audio decoder is also freely available from Freescale but can not be included in our BSP because Freescale needs to track the number of downloads to comply with their licensing terms. You can extract the AACPlus codec from the {{{L3.10.53_1.1.0_AACP_CODECS}}} download available from from freescale.com