Since the encoding feature of the Raspberry Pi doesn’t seem to be supported soon, I decided to get a new toy for „energy efficient“ video encoding (my laptops sound like starting plane while recoding my tv recordings from mpeg2ts to h.264): The Leopard Imaging Board LI-TB02! I’ll see how I will integrate into my little toy army!
New toy arriving soon!
Nice! We have a couple at work, one DM365 and two DM368 versions. I haven’t tried any h.264 tv show conversion, but on live video from a camera at 1080p it seems to work well :)
RidgeRun provides a pretty decent SDK, but I’m not sure how updated some of the components are (packages that is, the kernel is 2.6.32). It is free for personal use. (http://www.ridgerun.com/blog/?p=228)
TI also provide an angstrom (Openembedded/bitbake) distro that you can download and compile. This is what we are using, with an additional layer ontop for custom packages etc.
(http://arago-project.org/wiki/index.php/Setting_Up_Build_Environment) Note that Arago does not support the leopardboard out of the box, we had to patch u-boot and the kernel. I recommend the ridgerun sdk if it is for personal use to start with at least.
Let me know how it goes!
Hi Christian,
thanks for the starting links!
The board arrived today. Downloading all prereqs for the RidgeRun SDK right now.
Naive question – I haven’t seen a way like „create SD, boot“ yet. Is that possible or should I already go order the RS232 adaptor?
I figured it out!