Jetson TX2 Jetpack4.2+ GStreamer decoding pipelines

NVIDIA®JETSON TX2™
Introduction
Getting Started
Compiling Jetson TX2 source code
NVIDIA TX2 NVP Model
GStreamer
Compile gstreamer on Jetson TX1 and TX2 Example pipelines Capture and Display Pipelines H264 H265 VP8 nvgstcapture-1.0 Example pipelines for Jetpack 4.2+ Capture and Display Encoding Decoding Streaming
Performance
Jetson TX2 video latency
V4L2 driver support
V4L2 driver for camera sensor or capture chip V4L2 drivers available for Jetson SoCs Supported camera sensors GMSL MAX96705/MAX9286 Sony IMX219 OmniVision OV5647 Omnivision OS08A10 ON Semiconductor AR0231 ON Semiconductor AR1335 Toshiba TC358743 Toshiba TC358840
HowTo's
How to enable A/B redundancy in TX2 Setting up OpenPose on TX2
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Problems running the pipelines shown on this page? Please see our GStreamer Debugging guide for help.

H.264

OMX

File Decoder

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=$FILE ! qtdemux name=demux demux.video_0 ! queue ! h264parse ! omxh264dec ! nvoverlaysink -e

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
19.625	15.68	18.56	18.5	18.09	41.81

V4L2

File Decoder

NOTE:
For Jetpack 4.2, the nvv4l2decoder plugin reports in its capabilities that it supports several formats. However, after some testing, it was noticed that only NV12 is supported. 

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=$FILE ! qtdemux ! queue ! h264parse ! nvv4l2decoder ! nv3dsink -e

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
20	22.07	20	17.5	19.89	50.28

H.265

OMX

File Decoder

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=$FILE ! qtdemux name=demux demux.video_0 ! queue ! h265parse ! omxh265dec ! nvoverlaysink -e

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
9.5	6.8	6.7	6.8	7.45	2.42

V4L2

File Decoder

NOTE:
For Jetpack 4.2, the nvv4l2decoder plugin reports in its capabilities that it supports several formats. However, after some testing, it was noticed that only NV12 is supported. 

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=$FILE ! qtdemux ! queue ! h265parse ! nvv4l2decoder ! nv3dsink -e

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
19.2	16.55	15.9	17.45	17.27	40

VP9

OMX

File Decoder

FILE=filename.mkv
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=$FILE ! matroskademux name=demux demux.video_0 ! queue ! omxvp9dec ! nvoverlaysink

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
8.1	5.47	7.57	6.78	6.98	5.05

V4L2

File Decoder

NOTE:
For Jetpack 4.2, the nvv4l2decoder plugin reports in its capabilities that it supports several formats. However, after some testing, it was noticed that only NV12 is supported. 

FILE=filename.mkv
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=$FILE ! matroskademux ! queue ! nvv4l2decoder ! nv3dsink -e

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
19.43	17.25	14.93	17.06	17.16	45.25