Extension and Version Dependencies
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Requires Vulkan 1.0
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Requires
VK_KHR_video_encode_queue
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This is a provisional extension and must be used with caution. See the description of provisional header files for enablement and stability details.
Contact
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Ahmed Abdelkhalek aabdelkh
Other Extension Metadata
- Last Modified Date
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2022-04-06
- IP Status
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No known IP claims.
- Contributors
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Ahmed Abdelkhalek, AMD
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Daniel Rakos, AMD
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George Hao, AMD
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Jake Beju, AMD
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Peter Fang, AMD
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Ping Liu, Intel
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Srinath Kumarapuram, NVIDIA
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Tony Zlatinski, NVIDIA
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Yang Liu, AMD
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Description
This extension allows applications to compress a raw video sequence by using the H.264/AVC video compression standard.
New Structures
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Extending VkVideoEncodeCapabilitiesKHR:
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Extending VkVideoEncodeInfoKHR:
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Extending VkVideoEncodeRateControlInfoKHR:
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Extending VkVideoEncodeRateControlLayerInfoKHR:
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Extending VkVideoProfileKHR, VkQueryPoolCreateInfo, VkFormatProperties2, VkImageCreateInfo, VkImageViewCreateInfo, VkBufferCreateInfo:
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Extending VkVideoSessionParametersCreateInfoKHR:
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Extending VkVideoSessionParametersUpdateInfoKHR:
New Enum Constants
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VK_EXT_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_EXTENSION_NAME
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VK_EXT_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_SPEC_VERSION
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Extending VkStructureType:
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_CAPABILITIES_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_DPB_SLOT_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_EMIT_PICTURE_PARAMETERS_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_NALU_SLICE_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_PROFILE_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_RATE_CONTROL_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_RATE_CONTROL_LAYER_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_REFERENCE_LISTS_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_SESSION_PARAMETERS_ADD_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_SESSION_PARAMETERS_CREATE_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H264_VCL_FRAME_INFO_EXT
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Extending VkVideoCodecOperationFlagBitsKHR:
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VK_VIDEO_CODEC_OPERATION_ENCODE_H264_BIT_EXT
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Version History
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Revision 0, 2018-7-23 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)
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Initial draft
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Revision 0.5, 2020-02-13 (Tony Zlatinski)
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General Spec cleanup
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Added DPB structures
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Change the VCL frame encode structure
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Added a common Non-VCL Picture Paramarameters structure
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Revision 1, 2021-03-29 (Tony Zlatinski)
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Spec and API updates
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Revision 2, August 1 2021 (Srinath Kumarapuram)
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Rename
VkVideoEncodeH264CapabilitiesFlagsEXT
toVkVideoEncodeH264CapabilityFlagsEXT
andVkVideoEncodeH264CapabilitiesFlagsEXT
toVkVideoEncodeH264CapabilityFlagsEXT
, following Vulkan naming conventions.
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Revision 3, 2021-12-08 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)
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Rate control updates
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Revision 4, 2022-02-04 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)
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Align VkVideoEncodeH264VclFrameInfoEXT structure to similar one in VK_EXT_video_encode_h265 extension
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Revision 5, 2022-02-10 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)
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Updates to encode capability interface
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Revision 6, 2022-03-16 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)
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Relocate Std header version reporting/requesting from this extension to VK_KHR_video_queue extension.
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Remove redundant maxPictureSizeInMbs from VkVideoEncodeH264SessionCreateInfoEXT.
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Remove the now empty VkVideoEncodeH264SessionCreateInfoEXT.
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Revision 7, 2022-04-06 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)
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Add capability flag to report support to use B frame in L1 reference list.
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Add capability flag to report support for disabling SPS direct_8x8_inference_flag.
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See Also
VkVideoEncodeH264CapabilitiesEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264CapabilityFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264CapabilityFlagsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264DpbSlotInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264EmitPictureParametersEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264FrameSizeEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264InputModeFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264InputModeFlagsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264NaluSliceEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264OutputModeFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264OutputModeFlagsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264ProfileEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264QpEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264RateControlInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264RateControlLayerInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264RateControlStructureFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264RateControlStructureFlagsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264ReferenceListsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264SessionParametersAddInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264SessionParametersCreateInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH264VclFrameInfoEXT
Document Notes
For more information, see the Vulkan Specification
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