[AMLogic S905W (TX3 Mini) Hardware H.264 Encoding?]

I'd like to do hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding on TX3 Mini. I compiled latest Armbian with kernel 5.1.0, however it is not working, when I try to use a h264_v4l2m2m encoder, I get this error:

 

[h264_v4l2m2m @ 0xaaaae3bb2a20] driver 'meson-vdec' on card 'Amlogic Video Decoder'
[h264_v4l2m2m @ 0xaaaae3bb2a20] Could not find a valid device
[h264_v4l2m2m @ 0xaaaae3bb2a20] can't configure encoder

 

On lsmod, I only see amlogic-vdec, not venc[oder]...

[Armbian for Amlogic S805]

51 minutes ago, mcc05 said:

Hi @Milan Kragujevic I've sent you an email, many thanks for the help.

Hi, everyone can get the info now, it's public, sorry if I'm infringing on Armbian's copyright or something by rehosting the files, but I compiled the kernel + built the image myself...

 

https://projects.milankragujevic.com/amlogic/s805/2018-10-28/

 

Included is the .config file I used. 

[Armbian for Amlogic S805]

On 10/21/2018 at 7:05 PM, mcc05 said:

Hi @Milan Kragujevic, did you get your kernel build to work, and is it 3.10.108 variant, I would like web cam etc and my board is the same as yours m201d MXQ, if so can you share?

Hi, send me an email at milankragujevic [at] gmail [dot] com, and I will try to help you. In any case, I will publish my build here, for lazy people who don't wanna build it themselves. Btw, I just tonight build a new one. 

[Armbian for Amlogic S805]

Yes, thank you. I managed to build it, so I'll be testing it out. I enabled multimedia, usb web camera and v4l2 support in amlogic drivers section. So I think it should work.. We'll see...

[Armbian for Amlogic S805]

Hi, balbes150, I was wondering, could you either show me the tools needed to build Armbian for Meson8b/S805 on m201d MXQ with 512MB RAM, or build an image with included support for UVC/Video4Linux2, because I need to have TV capture / web camera with USB device and the current builds do not support UVC... Thanks so much for your work! :)