Camera driver: hardware H.264 encoding - Cyberwave Docs

Cyberwave edge video streaming auto-detects a usable hardware H264 encoder at stream start and falls back to software encoding (libx264) when none is available.

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.