Can you read Prores on a Raspberry Pi

beginners
#1

Hi everyone,

I wanted to ask this quick question before I waste too much time trying this. I wanted to be able to play a prores video on a raspberry pi using OFVideoPlayer. Would this be possible at all?

Thanks

#2

the video player in the raspberry pi uses gstreamer to decode video, you can check if there’s decoders for prores by running from a console:

gst-inspect-1.0 | grep prores

in ubuntu 15.10 i’m getting

libav:  avenc_prores: libav Apple ProRes encoder
libav:  avenc_prores_aw: libav Apple ProRes encoder
libav:  avenc_prores_ks: libav Apple ProRes (iCodec Pro) encoder
libav:  avdec_prores: libav ProRes decoder
libav:  avdec_prores_lgpl: libav Apple ProRes (iCodec Pro) decoder

in any case prores won’t be hardware accelerated so it will surely be slow on the PI

#3

Ok - thanks for this. I will try and see if it can be fast enough.