jetson-utils

April 29, 2025 · View on GitHub

C++/CUDA/Python multimedia utilities for NVIDIA Jetson:


`cpp/`	Various system & media utilities with C++ interfaces
`camera/`	GStreamer-based camera capture (V4L2, MIPI CSI)
`codec/`	GStreamer-based hardware video encoder/decoder
`display/`	OpenGL window & rendering
`image/`	Image loading & saving
`input/`	Human Interface Devices (HID) from `/dev/input`
`network/`	Sockets, IPv4/IPv6, WebRTC/RTSP server
`parsers/`	Filesystem, CSV/JSON/XML parsing, command-line
`threads/`	Multithreading, locks, and events
`video/`	Video streaming interfaces
`cuda/`	CUDA image processing functions
`docs/`	Collection of Linux commands and links
`python/`	Python utilities, examples, and C++ bindings
`scripts/`	Standalone shell scripts in Bash or Python

Documentation for jetson-utils can be found here:

Assorted links and tips-and-tricks for Linux are kept under docs/

This will build and install the C++/CUDA library (libjetson-utils.so) along with the Python extension module:

git clone https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-utils
cd jetson-utils
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

If you're missing dependencies, run the jetson-inference/CMakePreBuild.sh script.

This will install the Python-native modules from python/jetson_utils which do not depend on the C++ extension bindings and get installed on top:

pip3 install -e /path/to/your/jetson-utils

Or directly from GitHub:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-utils