Status of the Vulkan Video ecosystem
Channel: Igalia
Date: 2024-04-01

The Vulkan Video extension has been in development since 2018, with the
intention of exposing video codec blocks as a new acceleration API. AVC and
HEVC are shipping with good support for decode, and nascent encode support. AV1
and VP9 are in the works.

While several APIs exist amid the convenience/control/portability tradeoff, the
Vulkan extension exposes a much greater level of fine-grained control,
portability and tight-integration that none of the existing solutions offer, at
the expense of convenience.

In this talk we will very briefly explore the API, cover the recent
developments of the extension, and discuss plans for future work. This talk
will provide background information for anyone interested in integrating codec
acceleration within their application.

Slides available at: https://www.slideshare.net/igalia/status-of-the-vulkan-video-ecosystem-xdc-2023


(c) X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC) 2023
October 17-19, 2023
A Coruña (Spain)
https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/4/