This page provides all the information related to Design Module 4 - VCU TRD 10G HDMI Video Capture and Display design.
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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. 10G will give sufficient bandwidth for the streaming protocol to play video pipeline smoothly.
This design supports the following video interfaces:
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The below figure shows the 10G HDMI Video Capture and HDMI Display design software block diagram.
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1.1 Board Setup
Refer below link for Board Setup
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The figure shows the ZCU106 board connections for 10G HDMI-Rx and HDMI-Tx Streaming support
1.2 Run Flow
The TRD package is released with the source code, Vivado project, Petalinux BSP, and SD card image that enables the user to run the demonstration. It also includes the binaries necessary to configure and boot the ZCU106 board. Prior to running the steps mentioned in this wiki page, download the TRD package and extract its contents to a directory referred to as TRD_HOME which is the home directory.
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rdf0428-zcu106-vcu-trd-2020.-1 ├── apu │ └── vcu_petalinux_bsp ├── images │ ├── vcu_10g │ ├── vcu_audio │ ├── vcu_hdmi_multistream_xv20 │ ├── vcu_hdmi_rx │ ├── vcu_hdmi_tx │ ├── vcu_llp2_hdmi_nv12 │ ├── vcu_llp2_hdmi_nv16 │ ├── vcu_llp2_hdmi_xv20 │ ├── vcu_llp2_sdi_xv20 │ ├── vcu_multistream_nv12 │ ├── vcu_pcie │ ├── vcu_sdirx │ ├── vcu_sditx │ └── vcu_sdi_xv20 ├── pcie_host_package │ ├── COPYING │ ├── include │ ├── libxdma │ ├── LICENSE │ ├── readme.txt │ ├── RELEASE │ ├── tests │ ├── tools │ └── xdma ├── pl │ ├── constrs │ ├── designs │ ├── prebuild │ ├── README.md │ └── srcs └── README.txt |
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rdf0428-zcu106-vcu-trd-2020.-1 ├── apu │ └── vcu_petalinux_bsp │ └── xilinx-vcu-zcu106-v2020.1-final.bsp ├── images │ ├── vcu_10g │ │ ├── autostart.sh │ │ ├── bin │ │ ├── BOOT.BIN │ │ ├── boot.scr │ │ ├── config │ │ ├── image.ub │ │ ├── system.dtb │ │ └── vcu ├── pcie_host_package ├── pl │ ├── constrs │ ├── designs │ │ ├── zcu106_10g │ ├── prebuild │ │ ├── zcu106_10g │ ├── README.md │ └── srcs │ ├── hdl │ └── ip └── README.txt |
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config ├── 4kp60 │ ├── Display │ ├── Record │ ├── Stream-out │ └── Stream-in ├── 4kp30 │ ├── Display │ ├── Record │ ├── Stream-out │ └── Stream-in ├── 1080p60 │ ├── Display │ ├── Record │ ├── Stream-out │ └── Stream-in └── input.cfg |
1.2.1 GStreamer Application (vcu_gst_app)
The vcu_gst_app is a command-line multi-threaded Linux application. The command-line application requires an input configuration file (input.cfg) to be provided in plain text.
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1.3 Build Flow
Refer below link for Build Flow
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2 Other Information
2.1 Known Issues
For Petalinux related known issues please refer: PetaLinux 2020.1 - 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 related limitations please refer: PetaLinux 2020.1 - 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 PG252
2.3 Optimum VCU Encoder parameters for use-cases:
Video streaming:
Video streaming use-case requires a very stable bitrate graph for all pictures
It is good to avoid periodic large Intra pictures during the encoding session
Low-latency rate control (hardware RC) is the preferred control-rate for video streaming, it tries to maintain equal amount frame sizes for all pictures.
Good to avoid periodic Intra frames instead use low-delay-p (IPPPPP…)
VBR is not a preferred mode of streaming
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profile=highand useqp-mode=autofor low-bitrate encoding use-casesThe high profile enables 8x8 transform which results in better video quality at low bitrates
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3 Appendix A - Input Configuration File (input.cfg)
The example configuration files are stored at /media/card/config/ folder.
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Exit
It indicates to the application that the configuration is over.
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4 Appendix B - HDMI-Rx/Tx Linkup and GStreamer Commands
This section covers configuration of HDMI-Rx using media-ctl utility and HDMI-Tx using modetest utility, along with demonstrating HDMI-Rx/Tx link-up issues and steps to switch HDMI-Rx resolution. It also contains sample GStreamer HDMI Video pipelines for Display, Record & Playback, Stream-in and Stream-out use-cases. Streaming use-cases are covered for both 1G and 10G support.
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