Hardware transcoding on Nvidia Jetson

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The Nvidia Jetson is a small single-board computer, similar to the Raspberry Pi, with a powerful Nvidia GPU on-board.

Requirements

• Add yourself to the video group

  sudo usermod -a -G video $(id -u)

• Install /usr/local/lib/libnvmpi.so via github.com/jocover/jetson-ffmpeg

  git clone https://github.com/jocover/jetson-ffmpeg.git
  cd jetson-ffmpeg
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake ..
  make
  sudo make install
  sudo ldconfig
  

• Install Channels DVR via linux install instructions
• Hardware transcoding support will appear automatically

Supported hardware

• Jetson Nano 2GB
• Jetson Nano 4GB
• Jetson Xavier