Based on the open-source video encoding library FFMPEG, we developed our own optimized API for easy use of encoding and decoding functions following the standards h264/h265. Our software runs on various platforms (windows, linux, ARM or x86) and fully exploits the specific video processing chips (intel or NVIDIA). This helps performing on-board video encoding with a minimum CPU/GPU usage and a low electrical power usage. ECV/DCV supports multi-stream encoding and decoding as well as metadata streams.

Our software is able to encode simultaneously up to six UHD (4K) Video streams at 20fps on an NVIDIA XAVIER AGX with less than 5% CPU Usage. On a Jetson TX2, the encoding of the six 4K video stream runs at 10fps with less than 15% CPU Usage.