FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
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    FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

    Phoronix: FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

    Merged this week to FFmpeg Git for this widely-used open-source multimedia library are a number of NVIDIA video encoding "NVENC" improvements for benefiting the new GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics processors...

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  • Danny3
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2012
    • 2408

    #2
    I wish AMD and Intel would contribute more to Ffmpeg for their GPUs!
    Especially now that Youtube is switching more and more videos to AV1 and the decoding is not as optimized as possible, especially on GPUs and CPUs that don't have hardware acceleration for this codec.
    Just a few days I noticed that my Laptop with an Intel CPU+GPU was making more noise than usual for watching a video on Youtube, which made me to look at the stats of the video and see that the AV1 codec was used instead of the VP9 one, for which the GPU has hardware acceleration.

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    • edxposed
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2023
      • 316

      #3
      Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
      I wish AMD and Intel would contribute more to Ffmpeg for their GPUs!
      AMD did, just one day after the Blackwell GPU improvements. Not sure why Michael didn't notice it.

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      • aviallon
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2022
        • 294

        #4
        Intel has ffmpeg-cartwheel

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        • pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2020
          • 1591

          #5
          Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
          I wish AMD and Intel would contribute more to Ffmpeg for their GPUs!
          Especially now that Youtube is switching more and more videos to AV1 and the decoding is not as optimized as possible, especially on GPUs and CPUs that don't have hardware acceleration for this codec.
          Just a few days I noticed that my Laptop with an Intel CPU+GPU was making more noise than usual for watching a video on Youtube, which made me to look at the stats of the video and see that the AV1 codec was used instead of the VP9 one, for which the GPU has hardware acceleration.


          Intel contributes to ffmpeg all the time. If you can't wait for the patches to be merged, you can use cartwheel.

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          • Danny3
            Senior Member
            • Apr 2012
            • 2408

            #6
            Originally posted by edxposed View Post

            AMD did, just one day after the Blackwell GPU improvements. Not sure why Michael didn't notice it.
            Maybe because that seems to be for Windows as I see this line:
            Integration of GPU filters like VPP, Super Resolution, and...
            Super Resolution not being available in AMD Linux drivers, as there's no control panel to turn it on, so with that excuse they never implemented it.
            And I see also some weird things in the changed files like: OBJS-$(CONFIG_D3D12VA), which makes me assume that the changes are for windows >= 10.
            If that's the case I think Michael was right to not mentioned here.

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