Does the upcoming Raspberry Pi 5 have any hardware acceleration for video encoding? The technical specifications only list HEVC decoding, but there's no mention of hardware encoders. The reviews I've watched and read don't mention the Pi dropping hardware encoding either. Did they forget about it or does the Pi 5 truly lack hardware accelerated video encoding?
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The Pi5 has no hardware support for video encoding.
See https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2139082#p2139126
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I'm still stunned by this decision (of course, it's a decision of Broadcom, not Pi foundation). Given the massive community of camera-based projects based on raspberry pi (and also ones dependent on battery power), this puts the platform at a huge disadvantage. There will be many that stay with Pi4. My sincere hope is that this is just a transitional phase, and the next gen pi will bring it back.– AdamCommented Aug 19 at 21:14