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The Vulkan® Working Group at Khronos® has developed a set of video format decode and encode extensions, collectively known as “Vulkan Video.” As we speak, with the discharge of Vulkan 1.3.277, the Working Group is proud to announce the brand new Decode AV1 video extension. Much like the Vulkan undertaking in its targets, AV1 is a royalty-free open customary for video compression developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) delivering industry-leading efficiency and high quality. The results of broad {industry} collaboration and assist, the Decode AV1 extension is a serious milestone that builds on the muse of Vulkan Video to deliver cross-platform moveable and performant AV1 decode to engines and functions in every single place.
The determine under reveals the launched Vulkan Video extensions and a number of the extensions underneath improvement.
Determine 1. Vulkan Video extensionsParticulars in regards to the new Decode AV1 performance could be discovered within the extension proposal document and specification.
Vulkan drivers supporting each Decode AV1 and the lately launched Encode H.264/H.265 extensions are already accessible, together with:
- NVIDIA: Home windows and Linux beta drivers assist Decode AV1 at present, with an imminent manufacturing driver that can add Decode AV1 to already transport H.264/H.265 Encode assist.
- AMD: Home windows beta driver for Encode H.264/H.265 and Decode AV1.
- Intel: Home windows driver coming quickly.
There’s robust open-source group adoption of Vulkan Video, together with decode and encode assist within the GStreamer and FFmpeg multimedia frameworks, in addition to the RADV/ANVs open-source Vulkan driver for Intel and AMD GPUs.
NVIDIA’s open supply Vulkan Video pattern can also be being up to date for instance the usage of the Encode H.264/H.265 and the Decode AV1 extensions.
The open-source group has been deeply concerned within the improvement of the Vulkan Video Decode AV1 extension, beginning with the preliminary Mesa extension proposal from Dave Airlie and Lynne Iribarren, and together with key contributions from Igalia for conformance take a look at improvement, and detailed suggestions from Collabora on the extension design. The skilled assist and steering from RasterGrid for specification and validation layer improvement was additionally important. The Vulkan Video Decode AV1 extension is a real testomony to the robust {industry} collaboration fostered by Khronos, and the Vulkan Working Group is grateful for all its members’ exhausting work and contributions to succeed in this vital milestone for the Vulkan Video ecosystem!
The Vulkan SDK 1.3.275.0 now integrates all of the elements essential for builders to simply use the Vulkan Video Encode H.264/H.265 and maintenance1 extensions released in Dec 2023, and the video core and decode H.264/H.265 extensions released in Dec 2022. An upcoming SDK launch will add assist for the Decode AV1 extension.
The Vulkan validation layers, API headers, and API registry now embrace assist for:
The brand new Vulkan SDK additionally supplies Vulkan Video codec-specific headers for encode H.264 and encode H.265 operations. The total record of codec-specific headers included is:
- vulkan_video_codec_h264std.h: defines constructions and kinds shared by H.264 decode and encode operations
- vulkan_video_codec_h264std_decode.h: defines constructions used solely by H.264 decode operations
- vulkan_video_codec_h264std_encode.h: defines constructions used solely by H.264 encode operations
- vulkan_video_codec_h265std.h: defines constructions and kinds shared by H.265 decode and encode operations
- vulkan_video_codec_h265std_decode.h: defines constructions used solely by H.265 decode operations
- vulkan_video_codec_h265std_encode.h: defines constructions used solely by H.265 encode operations
- vulkan_video_codecs_common.h: defines a versioning macro utilized by different customary headers for model upkeep
The Khronos Vulkan Video subgroup welcomes all developer suggestions and is fastidiously monitoring the Vulkan problem trackers on GitHub for Decode AV1 and Encode H.264/H.265. We additionally stay up for listening to about any further options vital in your use circumstances that must be added to Vulkan Video!
As well as, all are invited to attend the assorted shows about Vulkan Video and different subjects on the Vulkanised 2024 occasion in Sunnyvale, CA., on February 5-7. Movies for the shows shall be posted on-line after the occasion.
“AMD is proud to proceed collaborating with {industry} leaders to finish the standardization of video acceleration assist in Vulkan®. The finalization of encode H.264/H.265 and decode AV1 extensions marks a major milestone, and we’re much more enthusiastic about future codec and have extensions,” mentioned Andrej Zdravkovic, senior vp and chief software program officer at AMD. “We stay up for supporting end-users with an upcoming launch of an AMD Software program: Adrenaline Version™ driver supporting optimized Vulkan Video for AMD RDNA™ architecture-based merchandise and options.”
“Furthering assist for AV1, a state-of-the-art, open video compression format, aligns with Collabora’s mission to speed up the adoption of open applied sciences,” mentioned Nicolas Dufresne, principal software program engineer at Collabora. “We’re delighted to have had the chance to leverage our deep expertise enabling embedded {hardware} codecs on Linux to assist the Vulkan Working Group deliver this new extension to life.”
“We’ve got been eagerly awaiting the ratification of the Vulkan Video encode extensions as they are going to pave the best way to the definition of the Vulkan Security Important variant. Congratulations to all which have made this a actuality. We’re extraordinarily inspired to be a part of the expansion and evolution of the Vulkan ecosystem, and we as a collective have come a good distance. Moreover, we at CoreAVI are extraordinarily excited to additional empower security important techniques with the addition of Vulkan Video,” mentioned Dan Joncas, chief gross sales and advertising and marketing officer, CoreAVI.
“Over the course of 2023, Igalia has been working in collaboration with the distributors, and distinctive people from the broader group, on the supply of the most recent Vulkan Video extensions. As all the time at Igalia, we pay explicit consideration to the broader FOSS adoption of our work. We consider strongly within the strategy taken by these new extensions for including extra flexibility and portability in video processing throughout the {industry}. To assist within the FOSS adoption of those new extensions, we have now developed the GStreamer framework assist for Vulkan Video, labored on the event and upkeep of the Vulkan Mesa drivers for Intel and AMD, and assisted in making certain the Vulkan conformance checkshave a superb customary of protection to make sure the implementations and specification are in unison. We stay up for persevering with this work going into 2024 and past,” mentioned Samuel Iglesias, director of GPU driver improvement, Igalia.
“We work intently with the Vulkan Working Group to drive extra open requirements that can profit customers at giant. The ratification of the Vulkan Video extension for AV1 decode acceleration will set the stage for next-generation visible computing experiences,” mentioned Vivian Lien, vp Shopper Graphics and AI group at Intel. “By delivering devoted AV1 {hardware} capabilities in our merchandise, we goal to empower builders to construct immersive functions throughout platforms and within the close to future all Intel® Arc™ Graphics merchandise will absolutely assist {hardware} AV1 video decoding by means of the brand new Vulkan Video extension.”
“AV1 represents the ultimate product of years of labor to develop a royalty-free video codec. The open-source group was amongst the primary to embrace it, by creating dav1d, the quickest software program decoder implementation, and now, by providing assist for multi-platform {hardware} decoding by way of the brand new extension,” mentioned Lynne Iribarren, Khronos member and FFmpeg developer.
“AV1 assist is among the predominant causes I needed to become involved in Vulkan video, having a royalty-free video codec accessible throughout distributors and platforms will go a protracted solution to making AV1 a baseline for future Linux desktop use circumstances. I welcome Khronos ratification of the work began as a vendor extension within the Mesa undertaking,” mentioned Dave Airlie, Mesa developer and Linux Kernel maintainer.
“NVIDIA is proud to proceed to drive innovation with the Vulkan Working Group. By being one of many first to assist Vulkan-based H.264, H.265 encoding and AV1 decoding, we’re increasing video API assist for Vulkan builders. We stay up for suggestions from our builders and companions to advance our GPUs’ video capabilities, together with Vulkan Video, and to allow functions to benefit from the most recent video applied sciences,” mentioned Bob Pette, vp of enterprise platforms, NVIDIA.
“RasterGrid is delighted to proceed the journey with the Vulkan Working Group in enabling environment friendly entry to hardware-accelerated video coding by means of Vulkan Video,” mentioned Daniel Rakos, CEO, RasterGrid. “We’re pleased to see our work on the extension specs and Validation Layer assist lastly touchdown within the arms of the developer group, and looking out ahead to serving to the Vulkan Video TSG broaden the assist for royalty-free video codecs within the API.”