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1 Overview
The primary goal of this Design is to demonstrate the capabilities of VCU hard block present in Zynq UltraScale+ EV devices. The TRD will serve as a platform to tune the performance parameters of VCU and arrive at optimal configurations for encoder and decoder blocks with the streaming use case where bandwidth plays a vital role.
This design supports the following video interfaces:
Sources:
- File source (SD card, USB storage, SATA hard disk).
- Stream-In from network or internet.
Sinks:
- SDI-Tx display pipeline implemented in the PL.
VCU Codec:
- Video Encode/Decode capability using VCU hard block in PL
- AVC/HEVC encoding.
- Encoder/decoder parameter configuration.
Streaming Interfaces:
- 1G Ethernet on PS
VIdeo format:
- XV20
Supported Features:
The table below provides the supported encoder feature in this release.
| Resolution | Command Line | |
| Single Stream | Multi-stream | |
| 4kp60 | √ | NA |
| 4kp30 | √ | NA |
| 1080p60 | √ | NA |
√ - Supported
NA – Not applicable
x – Not supported
Deliverables:
| Pipeline | Input source | Output Type | Resolution | Video encode/Decoder type | Deliverables |
Playback pipeline | File Source/ Stream-In | SDI-Tx | 4K/1080p | HEVC/AVC | Playback of the local-file/stream-in with video decoded using VCU and display on SDI-Tx. |
The below figure shows the SDI Video Display design hardware block diagram.
The below figure shows the SDI Video Display design software block diagram.
1.1 Board Setup
Refer below link for Board Setup
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2 Other Information
2.1 Known Issues
- For Petalinux VCU related known issues please refer AR# 7295072293: PetaLinux 2019.2 1 - Product Update Release Notes and Known Issues.
- For VCU related known issues please refer AR# 66763: LogiCORE H.264/H.265 Video Codec Unit (VCU) - Release Notes and Known Issues and Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Video Codec Unit.
2.2 Limitations
- For Petalinux VCU related limitations please refer refer AR# 7295072293: PetaLinux 2019.2 1 - Product Update Release Notes and Known Issues.For VCU related limitations please refer AR# 66763: LogiCORE H.264/H.265 Video Codec Unit (VCU) - Release Notes and Known Issues, Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Video Codec Unit and
Anchor PG252 2019.2 PG252 2019.2 and PG252 link.
3 Appendix A - Input Configuration File (input.cfg)
The example configuration files are stored at /media/card/config/ folder.
Common Configuration:
It is the starting point of common configuration.
Num of Input:
Provide the number of input. this is always 1 for this design.
Output:
Select the video interface.
Options: SDI or DP
Out Type:
Options: Display
Display Rate:
Pipeline frame rate.
Options: 30 FPS or 60 FPS for each stream.
Exit:
It indicates to the application that the configuration is over.
Input Configuration:
It is the starting point of the input configuration.
Input Num:
Starting Nth input configuration.
Options: 1
Input Type:
Input source type.
Options: File, Stream
Uri:
File path or Network URL. Applicable for file playback and stream-in pipeline only. Supported file formats for playback are ts, mp4, and mkv.
Options: file:///media/usb/abc.ts (for file path), udp://192.168.26.89:5004/ (for Network streaming, Here 192.168.26.89 is IP address and 5004 is port no)
Raw:
To tell the pipeline is processed or pass-through.
Options: True, False
Width:
The width of the live source.
Options: 3840, 1920
Height:
The height of the live source.
Options: 2160, 1080
Exit:
It indicates to the application that the configuration is over.
It is the starting point of trace configuration.
FPS Info:
To display fps info on the console.
Options: True, False
APM Info:
To display APM counter number on the console.
Options: True, False
Pipeline Info:
To display pipeline info on console.
Options: True, False
Exit
It indicates to the application that the configuration is over.
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