NVIDIA Jetson Xavier - HDAV Subsystem Video Decoder

NVIDIA®Jetson Xavier™
Introduction
SoM Overview Carrier Boards NVIDIA Xavier Developer Kit Connect Tech Rogue Connect Tech Mimic Software Support NVIDIA JetPack
JetPack 5.0.2
Getting Started Installing JetPack Flashing the board with GUI installer JetPack Components Compiling Source Code Flashing the Board from Cmdline Performance Tuning Evaluating Performance Set Values Manually Tuning Power Maximizing Performance
Development in the Board
Getting into the Board Using Serial Console Using SSH Using Ubuntu Login Installing Packages
Video Capture and Display
Description Supported Cameras Imx219 Driver Software Support Using GStreamer Using Libargus
Processors
HD Audio and Video Subystem Video Encoder Video Decoder JPEG Encoder and Decoder Video Image Compositor Audio Processing Engine Deep Learning Accelerator Volta GPU Description Using CUDA Using OpenGL
Interfaces
I2C SD/eMMC Controller USB Controller
GStreamer Pipelines
Capture and Display H264 H265 VP9 MPEG4 Simultaneous Streams Compositor
Deep Learning
TensorRT Using TensorRT integrated with Tensorflow Parsing a Tensorflow model for TensorRT Parsing Caffe model for TensorRT Building TensorRT API examples Deep Learning Accelerator Software Support Deep Learning Tutorials Jetson Inference Jetson Reinforcement
RidgeRun Products
GstPTZR GstCUDA GstColorTransfer GstWebRTC GstRtspSink GstInterpipe GstInference GStreamer Daemon GstShark
Reference Documentation
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The Xavier incorporates hardware acceleration for decoding various coding standards through the use of its NVIDIA Multi-Standard Video Decoder. The following table describes the supported video standards, the corresponding resolution, and the maximum number of simultaneous streams.

Standard	Profile	Resolution (Max Number of Streams)
H.265	Main Main10	4320p30 (2) 2160p60 (6) 2160p30 (12) 1080p60 (26) 1080p30 (52)
	Main 4:4:4 Main 4:4:4 10 MVC (per view)	2160p60 (2) 2160p30 (6) 1080p60 (13) 1080p30 (26)
H.264	Baseline Main High	2160p60 (4) 2160p30 (8) 1080p60 (16) 1080p30 (32)
	High 444 High 444 Predictive MVC (per view)	2160p60 (2) 2160p30 (4) 1080p60 (8) 1080p30 (16)
VP9	profile 0	2160p60 (4) 2160p30 (8) 1080p60 (19) 1080p30 (38)

Nvidia Hardware Accelerated Gstreamer Video Decoding Plugins

Plugin	Description
omxh265dec	OpenMAX IL H.265 Video Decoder
omxh264dec	OpenMAX IL H.264 Video Decoder
omxmpeg4videodec	OpenMAX IL MPEG4 Video Decoder
omxvp8dec	OpenMAX IL VP8 Video Decoder
omxvp9dec	OpenMAX IL VP9 video decoder

Multimedia API

The video decoder device node is /dev/nvhost-nvdec the multimedia API defines a helper class called NvVideoDecoder that creates new V4L2 video decoders, and it sets decoder capture and output plane formats. The example located in ~/tegra_multimedia_api/samples/00_video_decode provides more information on how to use the decoder.