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Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding
The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon
The newest addition now found in the code for Mesa 24.3 is enabling 12-bit AV1 content accelerated decoding. This merge request opened last week and landed overnight into Mesa 24.3-devel for supporting 12-bit AV1 decoding within the RADV Vulkan driver. This follows other Vulkan Video work in recent time not only to the Mesa drivers but also beginning to see more upstream code landing in the FFmpeg multimedia library and other projects.
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