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FFmpeg's FFV1 Vulkan Decoder Now 3x Faster On AMD GPUs


Merged last month to the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was an initial Vulkan-based decoder for FFV1 for the FF Video 1 lossless video coding format

The work most interestingly of this recent batch culminates with vulkan_ffv1: add cached symbol reader for AMD. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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