10 min. read | Video Acceleration API (VAAPI) is yet another way to use hardware acceleration to improve video processing performance (1.5-2 times faster than on CPU). The following guide helps to install Gstreamer VAAPI plugins on Ubuntu and provides solutions to most common issues.
7 min. read | Gstreamer’s plugins avdec_h264 (h264 video decoding) and x264enc (h264 video encoding) optimized for CPU. Meanwhile with Nvidia Gstreamer plugins (nvenc, nvdec) we can benefit from GPU capabilities and performance. With GPU based plugins applications can process videos up to 3 times faster.
Gstreamer with Python is highly flexible for data visualization. Any video streaming pipeline could be extended with custom Python plugins that allows you to draw any information (bounding boxes, confidences, class names, etc.). Next information is simple comparison of two most popular approaches to draw on gstreamer buffer: PyCairo, OpenCV.
