Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode

The open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa, RADV, has merged its support for handling Vulkan Video accelerated encoding for H.264 and H.265...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Vulkan-VIdeo-H265-H264

[slagiewka]

Now let's see this happen https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753129

[edxposed]

This makes no sense, any serious program would continue to use AMF/VAAPI/QSV/NVENC and not switch to this toy.

[lu_tze]

This makes no sense, any serious program would continue to use AMF/QSV/NVENC and not switch to this toy.

AMF is not available in any open-source driver; why would any program use it at all?

[oleid]

This makes no sense, any serious program would continue to use AMF/VAAPI/QSV/NVENC and not switch to this toy.

Please elaborate: why would one not use a platform independent API and why is this API a toy?

[nyanmisaka]

AMF is not available in any open-source driver; why would any program use it at all?

For AMD on Linux, he may be talking about using VAAPI.

[nyanmisaka]

Please elaborate: why would one not use a platform independent API and why is this API a toy?

Speaking of the platform independent Vulkan video, a lot of key features are still missing in Intel ANV, and drivers are broken in NVIDIA.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/8700

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10847

It will take years for these all to settle.

[ahrs]

This makes no sense, any serious program would continue to use AMF/VAAPI/QSV/NVENC and not switch to this toy.

It makes more sense than VAAPI because it actually works across multiple different operating systems (macOS doesn't count. Get a real computer). Firefox at present has no support for VAAPI encoding https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firef...Video_encoding

If they added Vulkan Video Encoding/Decoding they could maintain one code path for both Windows and Linux.

[oleid]

Speaking of the platform independent Vulkan video, a lot of key features are still missing in Intel ANV, and drivers are broken in NVIDIA.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/8700

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10847

It will take years for these all to settle.

Okay, but the issue is not the API, is it?

[patrick1946]

It makes more sense than VAAPI because it actually works across multiple different operating systems (macOS doesn't count. Get a real computer). Firefox at present has no support for VAAPI encoding https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firef...Video_encoding

If they added Vulkan Video Encoding/Decoding they could maintain one code path for both Windows and Linux.

They only disadvantage I see is that Vulkan is activating the 3D hardware. If you watch a video you don't that to be activated on a laptop. But maybe there is an other way.