The GPU hardware encoder in the Raspberry Pi can greatly speed up encoding for H.264 videos. It is perfect to use for transcoding live streams as well. It can be accessed in FFmpeg with the h264_omx encoder. But is it fast enough for live stream a...
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A Raspberry Pi Streaming Camera using MPEG-DASH, HLS or RTSP
This is an improvement on my previous article, Raspberry Pi Hardware Accelerated RTSP Camera, now with the option of using more modern technology, MPEG-DASH and HLS! First off, if you don’t care about the technicalities and just want a script to do everything for you, here...
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Raspberry Pi’s are wonderful little computers, just sometimes they lack the umph to get stuff done. That may change with the new Raspberry Pi 4, but what to do with all those old ones? Or how about that pile of old webcams? Well this article will...
Continue reading...Do heatsinks and fans make a difference for the Raspberry Pi 4?
If you have been looking at cases for your shiny new Raspberry Pi 4, I am positive you have come across ones that either include heatsinks, a fan, or both. The question is, is that just a needless extra cost, or does it really help? Well...
Continue reading...Build your own Pi Powered Enlarger Timer!
I cringed when my wife told me her digital enlarger timer broke. Thankfully it didn’t cost us a lot at the time, but it should have. I was lucky enough to restore a broken one I bought off eBay, no such luck this time. But then...
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