Radeon VCN Gets Mesa Patches For HEVC Main Video Encode

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Radeon VCN Gets Mesa Patches For HEVC Main Video Encode

For those planning to pick up a Raven Ridge laptop or the forthcoming desktop APUs, the Mesa driver now has patches for enabling H.265/HEVC video encode support for VCN 1.0 on Raven hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-VCN-Video-Encode

[tildearrow]

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Isn't HEVC H.265?

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Isn't HEVC H.265?

Yes it is.

[Adarion]

Now we need software in user space to make use of all these nice interfaces. Normal, end-user software. Like handbrake. Or, as a base for many others, ffmpeg/its fork.

[coder]

Now we need software in user space to make use of all these nice interfaces. Normal, end-user software. Like handbrake. Or, as a base for many others, ffmpeg/its fork.

GStreamer.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

More importantly, web-browsers should be able to decode video on GPU.

[samlabs821]

Can you make benchark of amdgpu open source driver on fedora 27? I am confused now, which features are enabled on opensource version, also is it possible to play games like CSGO

[samlabs821]

Can you make AMDGPU open source version benchmarks. Now I am confused between priopretary and opensource driver features. Is it ready to play games on amdgpu wayland? Interested in fedora 27( which is kernel 4.14)

[wizard69]

Great news.

Now all we need is a stable distro to install on these laptops that doesn't involve jumping through hoops.

[davidbepo]

only thing left is vp9 decode