Camera Driver: Hardware H264 Encoding

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Platform	Hardware encode	Notes
Raspberry Pi 4	✓	pass `--device /dev/video11` to the container
Raspberry Pi 5	✗	no H264 encode silicon — software fallback
Jetson Orin NX / AGX	✓	jetson image variant + NVIDIA container runtime
Jetson Orin Nano	✗	no encode silicon — software fallback
amd64	✗ (planned)	software fallback today

Platform

Hardware encode

Notes

Raspberry Pi 4

✓

pass --device /dev/video11 to the container

Raspberry Pi 5

✗

no H264 encode silicon — software fallback

Jetson Orin NX / AGX

✓

jetson image variant + NVIDIA container runtime

Jetson Orin Nano

✗

no encode silicon — software fallback

amd64

✗ (planned)

software fallback today

Configuration

Set CYBERWAVE_VIDEO_ENCODER to auto (default), a specific encoder name (e.g. h264_v4l2m2m), or libx264 to force software encoding.

The active encoder is visible in the WebRTC offer’s stream attributes (video_encoder).

See the public README at cyberwave-edge-camera-driver for the full configuration matrix.

Configuration