how to use jetson nano hardware acceleration to play youtube videos

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Nano
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Hi Guys:

Jetson nano can decode 4K videos, but I don’t know how to use it on Chrome youtube video playing?

My question is :
Can Chrome use hardware acceleration?
if it can, how to configure it?

2

Hi,
Chrome with hardware acceleration is not supported. We are evaluating to support this feature. As of now it is still pending.

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Unfortunately for me I’m getting quite skilled using python and gstreamer (2 things that I hate).

So here you can find a simple solution:

  1. Install required packages:
sudo pip install pafy
sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl
  1. create a python file called “youtube.py” with this content:
import pafy
import os

url = 'https://youtu.be/Bey4XXJAqS8' # youtube url to play
vPafy = pafy.new(url)
play = vPafy.getbestvideo()

monitor_width = 1366 # target monitor width
monitor_height = 768 # target monitor height

command = 'gst-launch-1.0 souphttpsrc location="'+ str(play.url) +'" ! matroskademux ! queue ! nvv4l2decoder ! nvvidconv ! "video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), width=(int)'+ str(monitor_width) +', height=(int)'+ str(monitor_height) +'" ! nvdrmvideosink -e'
pipe = os.popen(command)
  1. edit youtube.py to your needs
  2. run script using:
python youtube.py
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Hi simone.rinaldi,
Many thanks for sharing your experience.

5

Hi,
Is Chromium with hardware acceleration supported on Jetson Nano currently?

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Don’t believe this is supported yet.

YouTube videos can be played with youtube-dl and gstreamer, however, even multiple streams at a time. Here is another way on top of the above.

pip3 install youtube-dl
gst-play-1.0 $(youtube-dl -f best -g https://www.youtube.com/whatever)

Pretty much any video stream can be played with gst-play, and it uses hardware decode.

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Hi,
No, Chromium with hardware acceleration is not supported. Please try forum users’s suggestion.