Frigate NVR Updates: Pi Hardware Decode Fix and 0.18 Polish
Two unrelated fixes landed with no single pattern. The highest-impact change is PR #24564 restoring Raspberry Pi hardware H264 decoding, paired with a breaking device mapping correction, alongside PR #24567 with focused media and dialog fixes for 0.18.
Duration: PT1M52S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Frigate NVR Updates.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-10-05T13:24:03Z
- Audio duration: PT1M52S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's October 5th, 2026, and here's your Frigate NVR update.
There is no single broader pattern today — just two isolated fixes, with the highest impact coming from corrected hardware decoding on Raspberry Pi.
The first and most important theme is Pi performance plus a breaking configuration change. Pull request 24564 fixes the Raspberry Pi 64-bit H 264 preset, which was falling back to software decoding instead of using hardware acceleration. It also corrects the documented accelerator device from video eleven to video…
The second theme is small release polish for version 0.18. Pull request 24567 bundles miscellaneous fixes touching media handling and the camera info dialog. Details in the feed are limited, but the scope is focused and already drawing active discussion with three review comments. For developers, that points to user…
What's next: Pi users should verify their hardware device passthrough before updating, documentation will need to align with the corrected device, and watch the 0.18 branch as those media and dialog fixes move toward merge.
That's it for today, thanks for listening.
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