Intel FFmpeg 2024Q2 Update Enables GPU-Accelerated VVC Decoding

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel FFmpeg 2024Q2 Update Enables GPU-Accelerated VVC Decoding

Intel engineers have been busy preparing their open-source Linux software stack for H.266/VVC video decoding that is expected with upcoming Xe2 graphics for Lunar Lake and Battlemage. FFmpeg 2024Q2 is out today with VVC decoding now working on Intel graphics for this widely-used multimedia library...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-FFmpeg-H266-VVC

[espi]

H.266 is amazing, its sad that its not going to be used anywhere.

[sophisticles]

I can't wait for Lunar Lake, everything I read says this is going to be amazing.

Some Wall Street analysts are expecting it to lead to a reversal of market gains AMD has made against Intel in recent years.

Should be something.

[edxposed]

However arrowlake doesn't support vvc. lunarlake is obviously a toy.

[AdrianBc]

However arrowlake doesn't support vvc. lunarlake is obviously a toy.

It is too harsh to say that it is a toy.

Lunar Lake has a limited area of applications for which it is good, i.e. fanless devices and thin and light notebooks or tablets.

For those use cases, it should be very good, while Strix Point is not designed for them.

I am interested in NUC-like small computers, but for those Lunar Lake is too weak, while AMD Strix Point is perfect.


I would have liked a small fanless computer with Lunar Lake, but it is unlikely that such computers will appear and even if they appeared they would be much too expensive to be worthwhile, as it can be estimated from the high prices of the Meteor Lake CPUs.

Intel could have introduced a replacement for the very cheap Alder Lake N CPUs, by using the much faster E-cores of Lunar Lake (Skymont), but they do not intend to do this, at least not before 2025, because they do not have yet a manufacturing process that could be used to make such CPUs, instead of buying them from TSMC. So anyone who wants a cheap fanless computer must be content with the obsolete Alder Lake N CPUs.

[jaxa]

H.266 is amazing, its sad that its not going to be used anywhere.

I can wait for the amazing AV2.

[mikk]

Lunar Lake GPU is going to support VVC decoding but not Battlemage dGPU by the looks of it. The Media Version is much older on BMG G21, basically same as the one from Meteor Lake. Lunar Lake on the other side got a massive media version bump from 13.x to 20.x.

[anarki2]

H.266 is amazing, its sad that its not going to be used anywhere.

Licensing sucks, so it can't be amazing all around.

[DudeBro]

Now if only somehow Handbrake could be convinced to support VA-API the world would be a better place

[Quackdoc]

still very much a shame about the licencing situation, but hey, gotta make money somehow, I just don't see it being worth the licensing vs av1

I can wait for the amazing AV2.

AVM is a bit of a pain but you can try it now https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/avm