VCU Control Software Sample Applications - 2023.1 English

The ctrlsw_encoder and ctrlsw_decoder are complete sample applications that encode and decode video respectively. These applications are intended as a learning aid for the VCU Control Software API and for troubleshooting. The source code for the ctrlsw_encoder and ctrlsw_decoder applications are at https://github.com/Xilinx/vcu-ctrl-sw.

Sample configuration files and input .yuv file mentioned in examples below can be found in the VCU Control Software source tree test/cfg folder. The parameters are described after the examples below.

• H.264 Decoding File to File

  ctrlsw_decoder -avc -in input-avc-file.h264 -out ouput.yuv

• H.265 Decoding File to File

  ctrlsw_decoder -hevc -in input-hevc-file.h265 -out ouput.yuv

• Encoding File to File

  ctrlsw_encoder –cfg encode_simple.cfg

ctrlsw_decoder --help

ctrlsw_encoder --help