The Qt Framework is one of the best choices for Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) on Embbedded ARM processors. The Gateworks Ventana family features the i.MX6 processor which has hardware acceleration support for Qt. Gateworks has provided a Qt example showcasing the following: Yocto 2.3 Pyro Qt 5 GUI Framework GStreamer 1.10 Rendering videos on 3D …
Gateworks would like to announcethe release & support of Yocto 2.3 on the Ventana Family of Single Board Computers that feature the NXPi.MX6 processor. Yocto 2.3is under the code name Pyro. Yocto is a Linux operating system that Gateworks uses for video input and output, networking, GUI, IoT and more. Gateworks has added enhancementsto Yocto …
Customizing Android & Yocto Splash Screens Have you ever wanted to replace that ugly default logo or animation that is shown when your system boots up? Now you can with custom splash screens! What is a Splash Screen? The logo or image displayed on screen during the boot process of an embedded system 3 Splash …
Configuring wireless in Linux can be complex. A very common question is how does one configure an IEEE802.11 radio as an Access Point (AP) from the command line interface (CLI). This question is difficult to answer due to evolving wireless technologies. Several tools have been created to aid in configuring these devices, but are generally …
Gateworks’ SBCs are widely used for streaming audio and video over the network via Ethernet, 802.11 WiFi, or 4G LTE Cellular.Networks are dynamic, whether from network load, RF interference or signal strength thus throughput will vary requiring intelligent and flexible applications to adjust as necessary. Adaptive Bitrate Streaming is the concept of adjusting the quality …
Gateworks recently featured a blog in which 8 video cameras were connected to a Gateworks Ventana SBC and then displayed on a HDMI monitor. This is useful for localized applications. For remote applications there is another solution. Remote applications require streaming the multiple video streams over the network (Ethernet or WiFi). For bandwidth efficiency, all …
Gateworks would like to introduce software support for the AVC8000nano Mini-PCIe card on the Ventana Single Board Computers. Figure 1: Screen capture of 8 analog cameras displayed on a monitor using the Gateworks Ventana SBC Many applications, such as surveillance, require multipleanalog video inputs from cameras for monitoring. These cameras can then be displayed on …
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Gateworks would like to announce the support of the GStreamer-imx plugins starting with Yocto 1.8 on the Ventana family of Single Board Computers. Gateworks, the leading supplier of Powerful ARM based Single Board Computer solutions using the Freescale i.MX6, has invested countless engineering hours researching and mastering GStreamer for the i.MX series of processors. Gateworks …
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Gateworks would like to announcethe release & support of Yocto 1.8 on the Ventana Family of Single Board Computers that feature the Freescale i.MX6 processor. Yocto 1.8 is under the code name Fido. Yocto is a Linux operating system that Gateworks uses for video input and output, networking, GUI, IoT and more. Gateworks recommends all …
The Gateworks Ventana Family of Single Board Computers is well suited for multimedia applications. The Freescale i.MX6 processor has hardware encoding and decoding making for very little processor overhead. To take advantage of this hardware decoding it is important to always use the ‘vpuenc’ and ‘vpudec’ gstreamer pipeline elements. vpuenc – VPU (Video Processing Unit) …