Qualcomm talked about their IOT ready IP camera SOC QCS603 and QCS605 in the recent past. Have any one come across the commercial products launched using these chips? If yes. Please share the details. The unique feature of this SOC is, support of VP9 decoding which is a royalty free CODEC. This can be a game changer.
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Sean Patton
Apr 22, 2019Meraki's 2nd Generation MV series cameras use Qualcomm, however, they're using Snapdragon SOCs, not the QCS chips you referenced.
I searched Qualcomm's website and general web searches do not list specific camera partners, or products, other than the ThunderSoft Qualcomm developed reference camera in 2016.
We have also reached out to VMS manufacturers to see if there is interest or momentum in VP9 support from camera manufacturers/VMSes.
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Apr 22, 2019Why is having native decode support on your camera SoM important? Decoding would be for displaying.
Did you mean to type that it supports VP9 encoding aboard? If so, that would be interesting to me. But I don't see any mention of that in their material.
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sundar Subramanian
Apr 24, 2019HEVC budles their license in such a way that one encoding and one decoding available per channel. If the client is accessing your camera through web page you have to provide a plug in/ exe as a manufacturer to decode and view the H.265 compressed stream of your camera. In that case you are liable to pay royalty to HEVE/H.265 group patent holder. In case of VP9 it is complete royalty free.
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sundar Subramanian
Apr 24, 2019Thank Sean for the detailed research. We should consider this as a failure of VP9 over H.265 at least in the video surveillance industry. Technically H.265 is stronger performer compared to VP9 and recently release VP10. However, royalty pattern of H.265 is little complex. There are many patent Holders like HEVC Advance, velos media and many others. Surveillance equipment manufacturers need to pay royalty to all the patent holders to use H.265 CODEC in their products which is not in the case of VP9 and AV1. That was the major reason many web browsers stopped supporting H.264/H.265 CODECs.
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