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Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year
At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface.
Srinath Kumarapuram of NVIDIA talked up Vulkan Video and the recent AV1 encoding extension that was finalized a few months ago. Those wanting to learn more about those Vulkan Video plans can see the Vulkanised 2025 presentation embedded above along with the PDF slides. Hopefully by the end of the year we'll be seeing more robust application and driver support around Vulkan Video on both Windows and Linux.
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