FFmpeg - H3 - Armbian 5.23 (Cedrus HW Encoder - CMOS Camera)

FFmpeg 3.1.4 with built in Cedrus264 HW Encoder for the H3 platform. This was built on Ubuntu 12.04 rootfs (Armbian 5.23).

Ideal for H3 boards with 512MB / 1GB Dram memory size

• FriendlyArm (NanoPi M1 / NanoPi Neo Air)
• BananaPi M2+
• OPI

Dependencies

sudo apt-get install libmp3lame-dev libx264-dev libpulse-dev libv4l-dev libva-dev

Source Code and Instructions

https://github.com/linux-sunxi/libcedrus

https://github.com/uboborov/ffmpeg_h264_H3

How to use it

• Attach you CMOS camera

• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/avafinger/ffmpeg_cedrus264_H3_Armbian_5.23.git

• cd ffmpeg_cedrus264_H3_Armbian_5.23

• Install the deb package: sudo dpkg -i ffmpeg-3.1.4_1.0-3.deb

• type:

  sudo ffmpeg-3.1.4 -f v4l2 -channel 0 -video_size 1920x1080 -i /dev/video0 -pix_fmt nv12 -r 22 -c:v cedrus264 night_video_test4_1920x1080.mp4

• adjust the -r parameter and -qp for quality

Play the MP4 file with your preferred application

There is no problem installing this version over official version, they can coexist.

Limitations

• Read the author's note - POC