Use GPU as video encoder on jetson orin nano

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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I received a jetson orin nano dev kit recently and was surprised to see it doesn’t have a hardware encoder. It seems to get reasonable video quality, you have to use 2-3 cpu cores just for h264 encoding.

Is it possible to use the GPU to run an h264 encoding algorithm? If so, are there any examples of doing so?

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Hi,
There is no existing software stack for using GPU as encoder on Orin Nano. A possible solution is to develop CUDA code to do h264 encoding, but you would need to implement on your own.

You may consider use Orin NX or Xavier NX to have hardware encoder.