vtenc_h265a_hw

Apple VideoToolbox H265 HW-only encoder with alpha channel support. Currently only available on macOS.

Example pipeline (assuming a PNG with an alpha channel as input)

 gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=test.png ! pngdec ! imagefreeze num-buffers=1000 ! videoconvert ! vtenc_h265a ! qtmux ! filesink location=out.mov

Encode 1000 frames of a PNG image with an alpha channel and save it as an MOV file.

Hierarchy

GObject
    ╰──GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰──GstObject
            ╰──GstElement
                ╰──GstVideoEncoder
                    ╰──GstVTEnc
                        ╰──vtenc_h265a_hw

Implemented interfaces

GstPreset

Factory details

Authors: – Piotr Brzeziński

Classification: – Codec/Encoder/Video/Hardware

Rank – primary

Plugin – applemedia

Package – GStreamer Bad Plug-ins

Pad Templates

`sink`

video/x-raw:
         format: { AYUV64, UYVY, NV12, I420, ARGB64_BE, RGBA64_LE }
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

Presence – always

Direction – sink

Object type – GstPad

`src`

video/x-h265:
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]
 interlace-mode: { (string)progressive, (string)interleaved }
  stream-format: hvc1
      alignment: au

Presence – always

Direction – src

Object type – GstPad