Multiple slices on Jetson NX Jetpack 4.6

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Xavier NX
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Hello,
I’m trying to encode multiple slices on frames (H265), using:

hevcConfig.sliceMode = 3;          // modes slice = 3
hevcConfig.sliceModeData = 3; // number of slices per frame

Running on Jetson Xavier NX, with Jetpack 4.6, I’m getting a single slice.
Are multiple slices supported in Jetpack 4.6?

Thanks for your help,
Adi

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Hi,
We have jetson_multiemdia_api sample to demonstrate hardware encoding. Please try this sample:

/usr/src/jetson_multimedia_api/samples/01_video_encode/

For slice level encoding, please configure the options:

        -slt <type>           Slice length type (1 = Number of MBs, 2 = Bytes) [Default = 1]
        -slen <length>        Slice length [Default = 0]
        --sle                 Slice level encode output [Default = disabled]
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Thank you,
I tried that and I’m getting the same result with slices enabled/disabled.
I ran the following:

  • Creating a yuv file:
 gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! video/x-raw,format=I420,width=1920,height=1080 ! filesink location=~/work/adi/filetst.yuv

  • Encoding with no slices:
    under /usr/src/jetson_multimedia_api/samples/01_video_encode:
    ./video_encode ~/work/adi/filetst.yuv 1920 1080 H265 ~/work/adi/filetst.h265

  • Encoding with slices:
    under /usr/src/jetson_multimedia_api/samples/01_video_encode:
    ./video_encode ~/work/adi/filetst.yuv 1920 1080 H265 ~/work/adi/filetst-s3.h265 --sle -slen 1036800 -slt 2

  • Diff result files → no difference:

$ diff ~/work/adi/filetst-s3.h265 ~/work/adi/filetst.h265 
$ echo $?
0
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Hi,
Please try smaller slice length such as -slen 1000. Default bitrate is 4Mbps and 1036800 may be too large.

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Thank you!
I can see the slices now.
Is there a way to determine the number of slices per frame?

I wanted to test 3 slices per frame, resolution 1920*1080, YUV420, I got frame size of 3110400, divided by 3 to get slice size 1036800.

Now running with -slen 1000 I saw about 20 slices per frame. I ran again with -slen 5000 and saw about 4 slices per frame.

How do I calculate the desired slice length?

Thank you for your help,
Adi

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Hi,
Please refer to this comment:
How does slice mode video encoding work for Jetson? - #14 by DaneLLL

You can set to -slt 1 and set macro blocks for each slice.

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Thanks again,
I followed the instructions there and it works well when encoding H264 (getting 4 slices):
./video_encode ~/work/adi/filetst.yuv 1920 1080 H264 ~/work/adi/filetst-4s.264 --sle -slen 2040 -slt 1

But I don’t get 4 slices when encoding H265 / VP9
(Tried on Jetpack 4.6 on AGX, 5.1 on NX, and 5.0.1 on Orin)

Is it calculated differently there?

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@DaneLLL
Can you please help with number of slices for H265 and VP9?

Thank you,
Adi

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Hi,
We are checking this with our teams. Will update once there is further detail about it.

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Many thanks,
I think we figured the calculation for H265:
macroblock_alignment =32
macroblock_size = 32*32 = 1024
macroblocks = WIDTH_ALIGN_TO_32*HEIGHT_ALIGN_TO_32/macroblock_size
macroblocks_per_slice = macroblocks / slices

We still need the calculation for VP9.

When analyzing the slices, we are looking for headers on every IDR.
I tried using --insert-spspps-idr option, but we still get only one header.
How can we get the headers on every IDR?

Thanks again,
Adi

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Hi,
Have checked with our teams and confirmed your understanding to h265 is correct. And slice encoding is not supported in VP9.

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