Live streaming with Gstreamer for monitoring facilities?

DMårt · ‎2025-06-13

According to the datasheet of STM32MP2, it can play 1080p by using Gstreamer: GStreamer overview - stm32mpu

Questions:

1. Does that mean it can play pre-downloaded videos on STM32MP2 in 1080p?

2. Will Gstreamer be the only option to play 1080p videos?

3. If I have a webpage that streaming 1080p real time live action from a camera, e.g inside a facility. If I want to access that web page, would it be possible to watch that live session in 1080p by using Gstreamer or other software that can handle hardware acceleration? I don't know if Chromium can handle the hardware acceleration of the GPU of STM32MP2 yet. Please, let me know.

STM32MP151AAC3 custom board with STM32-OS as operating system: https://github.com/DanielMartensson/STM32-Computer

STM32MP257FAK3 custom board with STM64-OS as operating system: https://github.com/DanielMartensson/STM64-Computer

PPAGE.13 · ‎2025-06-13

Hi,

on STM32MP25, video can only be hardware accelerated with gstreamer usage.

For instance, run:

su -l weston -c "gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=<your .mp4 file> ! qtdemux !
h264parse ! queue ! v4l2slh264dec ! autovideosink"

Inside a web browser, it won't be hardware accelerated. We are currently working on a solution in Chromium.

BR,

Philippe.

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DMårt · ‎2025-06-13

Thank you @PPAGE.13 for the reply.

So I guess 1080p will be present in Chromium when the solution is found?

By the way! I really admire the work ST have made for the MP-series.

STM32MP151AAC3 custom board with STM32-OS as operating system: https://github.com/DanielMartensson/STM32-Computer

STM32MP257FAK3 custom board with STM64-OS as operating system: https://github.com/DanielMartensson/STM64-Computer