Raspberry Pi is equipped with H.264 HW Codec that supports up to Full HD either 30fps. We will show you how to run a VideoCoin Worker on Raspberry Pi that used HW Codec

Setup

Download Ubuntu 18.04 armhf from the following site and flash the microsd card:

​https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi Install the following repos as specified in "Optional PPAs" section sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-raspi2/ppa

sudo apt-get update

Install the following repos as specified in "VideoCore" section

sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev
sudo ln -s /usr /opt/vc

Download and setup Ffmpeg for Raspberry Pi

Compile ffmpeg with H264 Hardware encoder

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libomxil-bellagio-dev -y
git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git
cd FFmpeg
sudo ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-omx --enable-omx-rpi --enable-nonfree
sudo make -j4
sudo make install

Test h264 HW Encoder is active

ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc=duration=10:size=1280x720:rate=30 -c:v h264_omx test.mp4

Download the VideoCoin Worker Docker Image or Binaries for Raspberry Pi

You can learn more about how to do this here​

Setup VideoCoin Worker in VideoCoin Network Console

Use the "Worker" tab in VideoCoin Network Console and create the worker. The "Client Id" assigned to the worker needs to be used while running the worker as described in the following section.

Start the worker

Set the environment variables and start the transcode worker as shown below.

Environment variables and command-line options

Performance:

Raspberry Pi supports encoding up to 1080p @30fps. Transcoding live streams at 1080p resolution and 30fps may introduce some discontinuities as there is not much head room to support jitter in the live stream. It is recommended to use only for VOD applications when transcoding at 1080p,30fps.