The international standards organization Khronos announced the new Vulkan 1.3.274 version specification, officially adding Video extension support for H.264 and H.265 video formats, and AV1 will be added in the future.The VulkanVideo extension allows developers to process encoding and decoding acceleration of video formats in a standardized, smoother, and lower-load manner without relying on third-party video code libraries.
It not only enables real-time, low-latency video streaming, but can also be used for offline server-level transcoding platforms.
The extensions used in this update to support H.264 and H.265 codecs include:
VK_KHR_maintenance6
VK_KHR_video_maintenance1
VK_KHR_video_encode_queue
VK_KHR_video_encode_h264
VK_KHR_video_encode_h265 Note: The above information is disclosed by netizens in advance. The final detailed specifications and configuration are subject to official announcement.
Simply put,With the new Vulkan extension, content creators and service providers can more easily use H.264 and H.265 format videos to achieve better editing and transmission efficiency and quality, and ordinary users can also enjoy a better video playback experience.
The Vulkan video extension is also preparing to support the AV1 format. Decoding will be completed soon, while encoding will have to wait.
Currently, NVIDIA has released a new beta test driver that supports VulkanH.264 and H.265 video extensions. The version number under Windows is 538.09 and the version number under Linux is 535.43.22.
Drivers for AMD and Intel will also be announced soon.