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Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux
An exciting merge today for the Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 25.0 is enabling Vulkan Video API support by default for AMD graphics having VCN 2.x and VCN 3.x hardware.
This milestone is finally happening thanks to AMD submitting new firmware to the linux-firmware.git repository and these updated firmware bits have all the necessary changes so that the RADV Vulkan Video integration can pass all of the needed Vulkan API Conformance Test Suite (CTS) tests around the video encode/decode handling. Video Core Next 3.x launched with RDNA2 (Navi 2) hardware and is also used by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Raphael, Dragon Range, and other graphics. With the latest RDNA3 graphics for the Radeon RX 7000 series and Phoenix SoCs, Mesa 24.3 already exposes VCN4 Vulkan Video by default thanks to that change back in August.
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