Is it possible to enable VENC (hardware encoder) support in kernel for S905X3

[Antom]

Hello,

I am using an X96 Air (S905X3) with Armbian (6.1.127-ophub) and I can see the hardware decoder working:

 

v4l2-ctl --list-devices

Amlogic Video Decoder (platform:meson-vdec):

    /dev/video0

 

However, the hardware encoder (VENC) does not appear:

ls /dev/video*

/dev/video0

ls /dev/amvenc*

ls: cannot access '/dev/amvenc*': No such file or directory

 

I want to use ffmpeg with hardware encoding (h264_v4l2m2m) for real-time RTMP streaming, but without the encoder device, it is not possible.

Could you please explain:

Does this kernel support VENC on S905X3 at all?

If not, what changes are required to enable hardware encoder in the kernel?

Is there any instructions or topics ? Any guidance or examples would be very helpful.

Thank you!

[Werner]

27 minutes ago, Antom said:

ophub

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