The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the [1]Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged.

Last month saw a lot of commits around [2]Vulkan Video encode for FFmpeg while merged yesterday were the H.264 and H.265/HEVC specific encode bits. That complements [3]the Vulkan Video decode bits in FFmpeg 6.1 .

[4]This commit adds the H.264 Vulkan hardware encoder support to FFmpeg that is at feature-parity to the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support for video encode. [5]This commit added in the H.265/HEVC Vulkan hardware encoder support with full handling of the spec with I, P, and B frames.

It's great seeing FFmpeg continuing to lead the way around embracing the Vulkan Video API for cross-platform GPU video acceleration for both encode and decode.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Vulkan+Video

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Adds-Vulkan-Video-Encode

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-6.1-Released

[4] https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/f85d94730c22d1f31dbf00c311be50861b6ed4e9

[5] https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/4b4f0b68f89f86a882097a346f0e49468bb86cb4