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H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg


The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged.

The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged. This commit adds the H.264 Vulkan hardware encoder support to FFmpeg that is at feature-parity to the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support for video encode. This commit added in the H.265/HEVC Vulkan hardware encoder support with full handling of the spec with I, P, and B frames.

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