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FFmpeg Delivers Very Nice Performance Gains For Bwdif Deinterlacing With AVX-512


FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library

FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week was enhancing the Bwdif deinterlacing video filter with a 23~28x speed-up over the basic C code path when using AVX-512. Niklas Haas landed an AVX-512 implementation of the Bob Weaver deinterlacing video filter "vf_bwdif" for benefiting newer Intel and AMD processors with Advanced Vector Extensions 512 capabilities.

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