Jetson TX2 Jetpack4.2+ GStreamer encoding 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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H.264

OMX

H264 Encoding from camera

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! omxh264enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h264, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' \
! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE -e

Dual H264 Encoding from Camera

FILE_A=filenameA.mp4
FILE_B=filenameB.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! tee name=streams \
streams. ! omxh264enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h264, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_A \
streams. ! omxh264enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h264, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_B

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
15.44	11	15.22	11.5	13.28	2.8

V4L2

H264 Encoding from Camera

FILE=test.h264
gst-launch-1.0 nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' ! nvv4l2h264enc bitrate=8000000 ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink  location=$FILE -e

The nvv4l2h264enc plugin has a property to enable a maximum performance mode, though as expected, power consumption increases. The following performance results present both operation modes:

Performance:

Operation Mode	CPU%	GPU%	FPS
0 (Default mode)	15.47	3.09	30
1 (Maximum performance)	10.93	2.23	30

Dual H264 Encoding from Camera

FILE_A=filenameA.mp4
FILE_B=filenameB.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' ! tee name=streams \
streams. ! nvv4l2h264enc bitrate=8000000 ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_A \
streams. ! nvv4l2h264enc bitrate=8000000 ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_B

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
14.27	12	15.36	12.18	13.45	2.14

H.265

OMX

H265 Encoding from camera

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! omxh265enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h265, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' ! h265parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE -e

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
15.22	11.5	13	14.38	13.5	1.6

Dual H265 Encoding from Camera

FILE_A=filenameA.mp4
FILE_B=filenameB.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! tee name=streams \
streams. ! omxh265enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h265, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' ! h265parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_A \
streams. ! omxh265enc bitrate=8000000 ! 'video/x-h265, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' ! h265parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_B

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
16.62	14.47	15.33	15.28	15.4	1.66

V4L2

H265 Encoding from Camera

FILE=filename.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvv4l2h265enc bitrate=8000000 ! h265parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE -e

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
13.77	12.68	9.97	9.3	11.43	1.28

Dual H265 Encoding from Camera

FILE_A=filenameA.mp4
FILE_B=filenameB.mp4
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' ! tee name=streams \
streams. ! nvv4l2h265enc bitrate=8000000 ! h265parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_A \
streams. ! nvv4l2h265enc bitrate=8000000 ! h265parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=$FILE_B

Performance:

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

VP9

OMX

VP9 Encoding from Camera

FILE=filename.mkv
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! omxvp9enc ! matroskamux ! filesink location=$FILE -e

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
15	13	11.93	13.43	13.34	3.12

V4L2

VP9 Encoding from Camera

FILE=filename.mkv
gst-launch-1.0 -e nvarguscamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, format=(string)NV12, framerate=(fraction)30/1' \
! nvv4l2vp9enc bitrate=8000000 ! matroskamux ! filesink location=$FILE -e

Performance:

CPU 0	CPU 1	CPU 2	CPU 3	Average CPU	GPU
16.37	13.27	11.86	14.86	14.09	1.31