Registered Extension Number

24

Revision

4

Extension and Version Dependencies

  • Requires support for Vulkan 1.1

  • Requires VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 to be enabled for any device-level functionality

  • Requires VK_KHR_synchronization2 to be enabled for any device-level functionality

  • This is a provisional extension and must be used with caution. See the description of provisional header files for enablement and stability details.

Contact

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2022-05-30

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Contributors

  • Ahmed Abdelkhalek, AMD

  • George Hao, AMD

  • Jake Beju, AMD

  • Piers Daniell, NVIDIA

  • Srinath Kumarapuram, NVIDIA

  • Tobias Hector, AMD

  • Tony Zlatinski, NVIDIA

  • Daniel Rakos, RasterGrid

New Object Types

New Commands

New Structures

New Enums

New Bitmasks

New Enum Constants

  • VK_KHR_VIDEO_QUEUE_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_KHR_VIDEO_QUEUE_SPEC_VERSION

  • Extending VkObjectType:

    • VK_OBJECT_TYPE_VIDEO_SESSION_KHR

    • VK_OBJECT_TYPE_VIDEO_SESSION_PARAMETERS_KHR

  • Extending VkQueryResultFlagBits:

    • VK_QUERY_RESULT_WITH_STATUS_BIT_KHR

  • Extending VkQueryType:

    • VK_QUERY_TYPE_RESULT_STATUS_ONLY_KHR

  • Extending VkResult:

    • VK_ERROR_IMAGE_USAGE_NOT_SUPPORTED_KHR

    • VK_ERROR_VIDEO_PICTURE_LAYOUT_NOT_SUPPORTED_KHR

    • VK_ERROR_VIDEO_PROFILE_CODEC_NOT_SUPPORTED_KHR

    • VK_ERROR_VIDEO_PROFILE_FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED_KHR

    • VK_ERROR_VIDEO_PROFILE_OPERATION_NOT_SUPPORTED_KHR

    • VK_ERROR_VIDEO_STD_VERSION_NOT_SUPPORTED_KHR

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_VIDEO_FORMAT_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_QUEUE_FAMILY_QUERY_RESULT_STATUS_PROPERTIES_2_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_BEGIN_CODING_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_BIND_MEMORY_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPABILITIES_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_CODING_CONTROL_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_END_CODING_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_FORMAT_PROPERTIES_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_GET_MEMORY_PROPERTIES_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_PICTURE_RESOURCE_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_PROFILES_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_PROFILE_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_QUEUE_FAMILY_PROPERTIES_2_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_REFERENCE_SLOT_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_SESSION_PARAMETERS_CREATE_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_SESSION_PARAMETERS_UPDATE_INFO_KHR

Version History

  • Revision 0.1, 2019-11-21 (Tony Zlatinski)

    • Initial draft

  • Revision 0.2, 2019-11-27 (Tony Zlatinski)

    • Make vulkan video core common between decode and encode

  • Revision 1, March 29 2021 (Tony Zlatinski)

    • Spec and API updates.

  • Revision 2, August 1 2021 (Srinath Kumarapuram)

    • Rename VkVideoCapabilitiesFlagBitsKHR to VkVideoCapabilityFlagBitsKHR (along with the names of enumerants it defines) and VkVideoCapabilitiesFlagsKHR to VkVideoCapabilityFlagsKHR, following Vulkan naming conventions.

  • Revision 3, 2022-03-16 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)

    • Relocate Std header version reporting/requesting from codec-operation specific extensions to this extension.

    • Make Std header versions codec-operation specific instead of only codec-specific.

  • Revision 4, 2022-05-30 (Daniel Rakos)

    • Refactor the video format query APIs and related language

    • Extend VkResult with video-specific error codes

See Also

VkPhysicalDeviceVideoFormatInfoKHR, VkQueryResultStatusKHR, VkQueueFamilyQueryResultStatusProperties2KHR, VkVideoBeginCodingFlagsKHR, VkVideoBeginCodingInfoKHR, VkVideoBindMemoryKHR, VkVideoCapabilitiesKHR, VkVideoCapabilityFlagBitsKHR, VkVideoCapabilityFlagsKHR, VkVideoChromaSubsamplingFlagBitsKHR, VkVideoChromaSubsamplingFlagsKHR, VkVideoCodecOperationFlagBitsKHR, VkVideoCodecOperationFlagsKHR, VkVideoCodingControlFlagBitsKHR, VkVideoCodingControlFlagsKHR, VkVideoCodingControlInfoKHR, VkVideoCodingQualityPresetFlagBitsKHR, VkVideoCodingQualityPresetFlagsKHR, VkVideoComponentBitDepthFlagBitsKHR, VkVideoComponentBitDepthFlagsKHR, VkVideoEndCodingFlagsKHR, VkVideoEndCodingInfoKHR, VkVideoFormatPropertiesKHR, VkVideoGetMemoryPropertiesKHR, VkVideoPictureResourceKHR, VkVideoProfileKHR, VkVideoProfilesKHR, VkVideoQueueFamilyProperties2KHR, VkVideoReferenceSlotKHR, VkVideoSessionCreateFlagBitsKHR, VkVideoSessionCreateFlagsKHR, VkVideoSessionCreateInfoKHR, VkVideoSessionKHR, VkVideoSessionParametersCreateInfoKHR, VkVideoSessionParametersKHR, VkVideoSessionParametersUpdateInfoKHR, vkBindVideoSessionMemoryKHR, vkCmdBeginVideoCodingKHR, vkCmdControlVideoCodingKHR, vkCmdEndVideoCodingKHR, vkCreateVideoSessionKHR, vkCreateVideoSessionParametersKHR, vkDestroyVideoSessionKHR, vkDestroyVideoSessionParametersKHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoCapabilitiesKHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoFormatPropertiesKHR, vkGetVideoSessionMemoryRequirementsKHR, vkUpdateVideoSessionParametersKHR

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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