> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Camera Driver: Hardware H264 Encoding

> Hardware-accelerated H264 encoding for edge video streaming, with automatic software fallback.

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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`](https://github.com/cyberwave-os/cyberwave-edge-camera-driver) for the full configuration matrix.