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Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine

([WINE] 5 Hours Ago Vulkan Video Under D3D11 Video)


In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API.

CodeWeavers developer Elizabeth Figura has opened a merge request for Wine to begin landing Vulkan Video H.264 decode within the WineD3D code. This would allow Windows applications making use of the D3D11 video decode API to ultimately utilize Vulkan Video where supported on Linux systems.

[1]This open merge request is just the first of three planned parts around WineD3D H.264 decoding using the Vulkan Video API. Right now it's just for H.264 but could be extended for other video formats supported by Vulkan Video and Direct3D as well.

This is an exciting WineD3D development and hopefully this functionality will all be wired up soon for making use of Vulkan Video within Wine / Steam Play (Proton) via the Direct3D video interfaces.



[1] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7480


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An Animal that knows who it is, one that has a sense of his own identity, is
a discontented creature, doomed to create new problems for himself for the
duration of his stay on this planet. Since neither the mouse nor the chimp
knows what is, he is spared all the vexing problems that follow this
discovery. But as soon as the human animal who asked himself this question
emerged, he plunged himself and his descendants into an eternity of doubt
and brooding, speculation and truth-seeking that has goaded him through the
centuries as relentlessly as hunger or sexual longing. The chimp that does
not know that he exists is not driven to discover his origins and is spared
the tragic necessity of contemplating his own end. And even if the animal
experimenters succeed in teaching a chimp to count one hundred bananas or
to play chess, the chimp will develop no science and he will exhibit no
appreciation of beauty, for the greatest part of man's wisdom may be traced
back to the eternal questions of beginnings and endings, the quest to give
meaning to his existence, to life itself.
-- Selma Fraiberg, _The Magic Years_, pg. 193