H.265/HEVC Main 10 Decode Support Added To Radeon UVD Code

[hajj_3]

To me too, but is it possible to get hardware support?

of course, intel skylake supports 8bit vp9 hardware decoding, i think nvidia does too. Kaby lake will support 10bit h265 and 10bit vp9. Expect pascal and polaris to support 10bit for both of these too.

[Nille_kungen]

Kano it's here finally.

[deri]

VP9 support is more interesting to me.

To me too, but is it possible to get hardware support?

[KellyClowers]

VP9 support is more interesting to me.

[smitty3268]

I thought tonga -read gcn 1.2- only supported 8bit hevc, or does it support in in hardware but just wasn't exposed?

gcn is the graphics core, and has nothing to do with video decode support. The UVD blocks determine that, and AMD has traditionally mixed and matched generations of UVD with different generations of shader cores. (In particular, integrated parts often get UVD a generation ahead of the shader cores)

I'd expect desktop parts to start including support starting with Polaris.

[monstercameron]

I thought tonga -read gcn 1.2- only supported 8bit hevc, or does it support in in hardware but just wasn't exposed?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: H.265/HEVC Main 10 Decode Support Added To Radeon UVD Code

AMD developers have today sent out patches for implementing HEVC Main 10 provide video decode support to the open-source RadeonSI UVD driver stack...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HEVC-Main-10-UVD