AMD Open-Sources VCE Video Encode Engine Code

[CrvenaZvezda]

And this is why I stay with AMD for all my own computers. Yes, i would LOVE to have full OpenGL 4.4 support and super duper optimized code, but hey, at least AMD is moving in the right direction. Also doing so in an steadily increasing speed!

[Drago]

I'm glad that I chose the AMD HW in my two recent builds over the Intel HW

Intel have supported video encoding via VA-API,
for a long time now. Just for your information.

[profoundWHALE]

Intel have supported video encoding via VA-API,
for a long time now. Just for your information.

Yeah, I'm a little confused with people talking about AMD like they're the first to do it.

[pinguinpc]

Good for AMD, another year maybe GCN opensource driver stay on more mature state

Respect VCE code is very good, for example if simplescreen recorder support this, linux screencasting users appreciate that

[Figueiredo]

You can use VCE to encode to your own h.264/mpeg videos or in combination with UVD to transcode videos.

Christian, could you elaborate a little abou the flexibility of these blocks (UVD and VCE)? For example, is VCE only usefull for H.264? Could it be eventually used for other codecs, even if only partially?

What about true audio? Is there any plant to support it on the open driver?

[chithanh]

Heh, that was so unexpected that there is not even an entry in http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ for Video Encode with VCE

Christian, could you elaborate a little abou the flexibility of these blocks (UVD and VCE)? For example, is VCE only usefull for H.264? Could it be eventually used for other codecs, even if only partially?

Looks like it supports only H.264 output from page 10 of AMD's UVD3 whitepaper: http://www.amd.com/us/Documents/UVD3_whitepaper.pdf

[Redi44]

Intel have supported video encoding via VA-API,
for a long time now. Just for your information.

I know. My post wasn't only about this but rather about the quite nice support AMD gives us lately...

[oleid]

Intel have supported video encoding via VA-API,
for a long time now. Just for your information.

What software supports encoding via vaapi? I didn't find any so far...

[entropy]

@AMD staff

Some years ago Bridgman said the development department is looking to disentangle
the decoding units from the DRM blocks in order to make it easier (read less dangerous)
to release programming documentation.

Do current ASICs already profit from that "decision" or is this still in the pipeline (or even not pursued anymore)?

[agd5f]

@AMD staff

Some years ago Bridgman said the development department is looking to disentangle
the decoding units from the DRM blocks in order to make it easier (read less dangerous)
to release programming documentation.

Do current ASICs already profit from that "decision" or is this still in the pipeline (or even not pursued anymore)?

We are already taking advantage of it.