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    I am working with VOXL1 Flight Deck.
    The VOXL Streamer documentation says I can use hardware acceleration to encode multiple h264 streams simultaneously. Is there a maximum?
    Is HW acceleration used regardless of the interface? If I have a USB camera (using voxl-uvc-server) will voxl-streamer still use hardware acceleration?
    Tx

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    • Ed SutterE Ed Sutter

      I am working with VOXL1 Flight Deck.
      The VOXL Streamer documentation says I can use hardware acceleration to encode multiple h264 streams simultaneously. Is there a maximum?
      Is HW acceleration used regardless of the interface? If I have a USB camera (using voxl-uvc-server) will voxl-streamer still use hardware acceleration?
      Tx

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      @Ed-Sutter Yes, voxl-streamer will always use HW acceleration for h264 encoding. There is a limit but I'm not sure what it is. I have streamed multiple cameras in the past and it was able to keep up just fine but I don't have any actual spec numbers on that. It is a pretty powerful hardware accelerator.

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      • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

        @Ed-Sutter Yes, voxl-streamer will always use HW acceleration for h264 encoding. There is a limit but I'm not sure what it is. I have streamed multiple cameras in the past and it was able to keep up just fine but I don't have any actual spec numbers on that. It is a pretty powerful hardware accelerator.

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        @Eric-Katzfey Ok, I don't know what we need yet, but I'm gonna see if I can run all 5 cameras with HW-accelerated H264... I'll post results.
        Different question... I am trying to build voxl-camera-server, so far without success. Referring to install_build_deps.sh, I've tried both
        ./install_build_deps.sh apq8096 sdk-1.0
        and
        ./install_build_deps.sh apq8096 dev
        Which is preferred (or is there a different) option? Which is the "stable" version?

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        • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

          @Ed-Sutter Yes, voxl-streamer will always use HW acceleration for h264 encoding. There is a limit but I'm not sure what it is. I have streamed multiple cameras in the past and it was able to keep up just fine but I don't have any actual spec numbers on that. It is a pretty powerful hardware accelerator.

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          @Eric-Katzfey One more question to add to the last reply...
          I just noticed that there is an apq8096-camera-server repository. What is the difference between that and voxl-camera-server?

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          • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

            @Ed-Sutter Yes, voxl-streamer will always use HW acceleration for h264 encoding. There is a limit but I'm not sure what it is. I have streamed multiple cameras in the past and it was able to keep up just fine but I don't have any actual spec numbers on that. It is a pretty powerful hardware accelerator.

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            @Eric-Katzfey I started a new thread for these last few build questions.

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            • Ed SutterE Ed Sutter

              @Eric-Katzfey I started a new thread for these last few build questions.

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              @Ed-Sutter Thanks! Always better to start a new thread for a different question.

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