Hardware h264 transcoding using rkmpp

This plugin tries to enable hardware accelerated transcoding profiles using rkmpp on linux. It should be considered experimental and tinkering will certainly be necessary to make this plugin work on your hardware.

For more information on rkmpp and hardware acceleration:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_acceleration#Comparison_tables
• https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip/wiki

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Live stream encoding is currently not working

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Building a compatible docker image

Official docker images do not ship with required libraries for hardware transcode. You can build your own image with the following Dockerfile from repo bro2020/peertube-dockerfile-rockchip:

Running the docker image

In order to access the GPU inside docker, the docker-compose.yml should be adapted as follow. Note that you must find the id of the render group on your machine. You can use grep render /etc/group | cut -d':' -f3 to find the id.

services:
  peertube-rockchip:
    # or replace image key with your own
    image: bro2020/peertube-rockchip
    # usual peertube configuration
    # ...

    # add these keys
    group_add:
      - <replace with the id of the render group>
    devices:
      # Rkmpp Devices
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
      - /dev/dma_heap:/dev/dma_heap
      - /dev/rga:/dev/rga
      - /dev/mpp_service:/dev/mpp_service

The plugin package is available in the npmjs repository.:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/peertube-plugin-hardware-transcode-rkmpp