x264, raspberry

[mrdebug]

Is the raspberry hardware encoding supported from x264? Have you got an example on how I can use it?

[J_Darnley]

By "raspberry" do you mean the Raspberry Pi? It should be supported. It is just an ARM processor, isn't it? If it doesn't have NEON instructions it is probably useless though.

[paradoxical]

I believe they were asking if x264 would use the H.264 encoder that is in the Pi's SoC. Which would obviously be: no.

[mrdebug]

Yes. You're right.
I have written an video surveillance application that runs in a Debian system with x264 (using FFmpeg). In Raspberry PI the program works but I can encode only 2 frames for second.
If the x264 library will support the hardware encoding of Raspberry PI, my application can be usable. Is possible?
If not I have to study and implement the hardware encoding directly without x264 and FFmpeg.

[paradoxical]

This thread (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=41844) might be useful to you.

[Dark Shikari]

x264 can't "support" a hardware encoder; x264 already is an encoder. Using a different encoder (the hardware encoder) by definition means not using x264, because it's a different encoder.