Vulkanthe API for open source cross platform gameshas presented his roadmap for 2024 of which it has already fulfilled some characteristics. Vulkan is now capable of encoding and decoding with H.264 and H.265 formats in addition to prepare for AV1. According to See you at PhoronixRADV has taken advantage of this feature to add support for encoding and decoding with H.264 and H.265 in these drivers for open source Radeons.
The Vulkan API already introduced this feature at the end of last yearhas now been added to these Open Source drivers that have been merged with Mesa version 24.1 of this quarter. In order to use this new feature, a Mesa controller must be created with “-Dvideo_codecs=h264enc,h265enc“, then you have to execute “RADV_PERFTEST=video_encode”.
In addition to this support for these codecs, it is expected that in this quarter's Mesa 24.1 feature update they will also decoding with Vulkan Video AV1 is added. In this way, RADV leaves adapting to changes and improvements that Vulkan makes in its roadmap. With these changes, the open source MESA RADV drivers for Linuxopen up more possibilities for Radeon cards by allowing the use of more codecs in an open source operating system, and even preparing for future features like AV1.
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I am a Computer Engineer and my specialty is automation and robotics. My passion for hardware began at the age of 14 when I broke down my first computer: a 386 DX 40 with 4MB of RAM and 210MB of hard drive. I continue to give free rein to my passion in the technical articles I write for Geeknetic. I dedicate most of my free time to video games, contemporary and retro, on the more than 20 consoles I have, in addition to the PC.
