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Camera stream encoding using Metis m.2

  • October 6, 2025
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Dear team, 
Is it possible to use hardware acceleration provided by the chip for encoding into x264 or x265 video stream on gstreamer. I was able to find plugins here but no specific mention for hardware acceleration.
Thank you.

Best answer by might-be-david

Hi Manekdev,

 

Thanks for the question! We don’t have hardware decoding for x264 or x265 on our Metis chip- the chip is focused on acceleration of neural networks.

On the software side, our Voyager SDK supports using a host system’s existing hardware decoders (typically in an integrated GPU) as part of building an overall pipeline. This does use GStreamer elements as you mention. These libraries are used in our standard inference application.

Thanks,

David

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  • October 6, 2025

Hi Manekdev,

 

Thanks for the question! We don’t have hardware decoding for x264 or x265 on our Metis chip- the chip is focused on acceleration of neural networks.

On the software side, our Voyager SDK supports using a host system’s existing hardware decoders (typically in an integrated GPU) as part of building an overall pipeline. This does use GStreamer elements as you mention. These libraries are used in our standard inference application.

Thanks,

David