LE 8.2.x on Odroid C2 - GPU acceleration and Audio and Video Codec licenses

ajiratech · September 24, 2018 at 8:59 PM

Hi, I'm running 8.2.x on Odroid C2 and it works quite well in handling 4K Videos. GPU acceleration works for H.265 and H.264 codecs and probably other codecs too.

Can someone tell which Video Library is used to do GPU acceleration for Video codecs and does the Amlogic S905 SoC include required Licenses for decoding these codecs ? Or does one need to buy Licenses like one does if they were using Raspberry pi and wanted GPU acceleration for MPEG2.

**wrxtasy** · September 25, 2018 at 2:00 PM

With Krypton - Everything these days is Hardware decoded by the Video Engine in the GPU, there is no need to buy extra licences.

SD - mpeg2 and mpeg4 can also be CPU software decoded if you want, there are various LE video decode options available.

ajiratech · September 25, 2018 at 5:07 PM

Thanks wrxtasy .
Hardware decoding is working quite well for all types of Videos. LE and Kodi Team has done an incredible job at making these.

Do you know if the GPU (on Amlogic S905) is able to encode as well ? (Transcoding to H.264) . The software transcoding is useless because it can only manage 2-3 fps.