Video streaming on the i.MX27 multimedia applications processor

Streaming digital video is gaining popularity in diverse markets, such as surveillance systems, social networking and multimedia content servers. The i.MX27 applications processor is well positioned for these diverse markets due to its combination of an ARM926EJ-S core running up to 400MHz, an embedded Fast Ethernet Controller (FEC) and a CMOS sensor interface (CSI) that can integrate different types of sensor cameras, enhanced Multimedia Accelerator (eMMA), hardware H.264/MPEG4 decoder/encoder, security block and many other peripherals.

This application note discusses the steps for performing digital video streaming on the i.MX27 multimedia applications processor. It also presents an overview about the usage of Gstreamer on the i.MX27 processor.

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