FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting With Vulkan Video Decode, More Vulkan Filters

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting With Vulkan Video Decode, More Vulkan Filters

FFmpeg's next release (v6.1) will prove quite exciting with Vulkan Video support merged for decoding H.264, H.265/HEVC, and AV1 content. Plus there are more Vulkan Video features and other improvements in the next version...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-Video

[edxposed]

d3d12va is also about to be merged

[shmerl]

So Firefox with Vulkan video is next?

[Kepsz]

This Vulkan Video decode will work on distros that recently dropped the VA-API support from mesa?

[edxposed]

So Firefox with Vulkan video is next?

They haven't even implemented a Vulkan rendering backend, so that's not possible, and Chromium has no plans to support Vulkan Video

[edxposed]

This Vulkan Video decode will work on distros that recently dropped the VA-API support from mesa?

Currently ANV and RADV do not have a build option to exclude Vulkan Video, so yes. However I highly suspect that some distro maintainers will later try to ask mesa for such options to exclude Vulkan Video support.

[shmerl]

They haven't even implemented a Vulkan rendering backend, so that's not possible, and Chromium has no plans to support Vulkan Video

I don't think they depend on each other.

[edxposed]

I don't think they depend on each other.

Then you need to implement OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability, or use the inefficient copyback decoding

[shmerl]

Then you need to implement OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability, or use the inefficient copyback decoding

Shouldn't they both be able to work with dma-buf or the like? It must be not a new problem.

[fitzie]

fedora devs rushing to disable it...