Compatibility

Compatibility

Supported codecs, Jetson hardware, JetPack releases, and FFmpeg versions for jetson-ffmpeg.

Codec Support

Codec	Decoding	Encoding	FFmpeg codec name
H.264 / AVC	✅	✅	h264_nvmpi
H.265 / HEVC	✅	✅	hevc_nvmpi
MPEG-2	✅	—	mpeg2_nvmpi
MPEG-4	✅	—	mpeg4_nvmpi
VP8	✅	—	vp8_nvmpi
VP9	✅	—	vp9_nvmpi

Hardware-accelerated video scaling during decoding is also supported.

FFmpeg Support

jetson-ffmpeg is compatible with all FFmpeg versions from 4.2 up to 8.0+.

• Dedicated patches are provided and CI-tested for FFmpeg 4.2, 4.4, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1, and 8.0.
• scripts/ffpatch.sh auto-detects the version of the FFmpeg tree it patches.
• Versions older than 4.2 may also work, but have not been tested.

Jetson / JetPack Support

Symbol	Meaning
✅	Tested on real hardware (CI)
🔵	Untested — expected to work
➖	No JetPack release available for this platform

Hardware testing in CI currently covers a single device: Orin NX on JetPack 6 (L4T r36.4). All other platform/JetPack combinations are untested in this project, even where the underlying code paths are the same. The matrix is split by JetPack generation; platforms without a JetPack release in a generation are omitted from that table.

JetPack 5.x – 6.x

JetPack	AGX Xavier	Xavier NX	AGX Orin	Orin NX	Orin Nano
6.2.x	➖	➖	🔵	🔵	🔵
6.1.x	➖	➖	🔵	✅	🔵
6.0.x	➖	➖	🔵	🔵	🔵
5.1.x	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
5.0.x	🔵	🔵	🔵	➖	➖

JetPack 4.x

JetPack 4.x uses the legacy nvbuf_utils buffer API (instead of NvBufSurface on JetPack 5+). The code supports it, but this build path is not currently exercised by CI.

JetPack	TX1	TX2	TX2i	Nano	AGX Xavier	Xavier NX
4.6.x	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
4.5.x	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
4.4.x	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
4.3.x	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	➖
4.2.x	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	➖
4.1.x	➖	➖	➖	➖	🔵	➖

JetPack 3.2 – 3.3 (legacy)

The Jetson Multimedia API that libnvmpi is built on (V4L2 codecs + nvbuf_utils, shipped as tegra_multimedia_api) first appeared around L4T r28 / JetPack 3.2. Earlier JetPack releases (1.x – 3.1, and the TK1 platform entirely) do not provide this API and cannot be supported.

JetPack	TX1	TX2	TX2i
3.3.x	🔵	🔵	🔵
3.2.x	🔵	🔵	🔵