RadeonSI Driver Lands Multi-Slice Video Encoding For AVC/HEVC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI Driver Lands Multi-Slice Video Encoding For AVC/HEVC

AMD has been on a streak recently of improving their open-source video acceleration capabilities for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-Multi-Slice-Encode

[caligula]

What's the main advantage of optimizing video codecs? After all, the previous version was most likely already able to encode full-screen video in real time. Also, improving the performance of old hardware might hurt the sales of more recent hardware.

[Danny3]

It will be nice that with all these video encoding improvements, one day Valve will activate In-Home streaming from Linux hosts too!

[Grim85]

It will be nice that with all these video encoding improvements, one day Valve will activate In-Home streaming from Linux hosts too!

Can't you already do this? I use the steam link app on my phone sometimes to play games from my Fedora box

[Danny3]

Can't you already do this? I use the steam link app on my phone sometimes to play games from my Fedora box

Last time I tried it was working from Windows host only, but I'm glad to hear that this is no loger the only option!

[LtdJorge]

Last time I tried it was working from Windows host only, but I'm glad to hear that this is no loger the only option!

Yep, you can stream from a Windows PC to Steam Deck or vice versa, as an example.