Extension and Version Dependencies
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Requires support for 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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2022-09-18
- IP Status
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No known IP claims.
- Contributors
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Ahmed Abdelkhalek, AMD
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George Hao, AMD
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Jake Beju, AMD
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Chunbo Chen, Intel
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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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Daniel Rakos, RasterGrid
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Description
This extension builds upon the VK_KHR_video_encode_queue
extension
by adding support for encoding elementary video stream sequences compliant
with the H.265/HEVC video compression standard.
New Structures
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Extending VkVideoCapabilitiesKHR:
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Extending VkVideoCodingControlInfoKHR:
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Extending VkVideoCodingControlInfoKHR, VkVideoEncodeRateControlLayerInfoKHR:
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Extending VkVideoEncodeInfoKHR:
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Extending VkVideoProfileInfoKHR, VkQueryPoolCreateInfo:
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Extending VkVideoSessionParametersCreateInfoKHR:
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Extending VkVideoSessionParametersUpdateInfoKHR:
New Enum Constants
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VK_EXT_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_EXTENSION_NAME
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VK_EXT_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_SPEC_VERSION
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Extending VkStructureType:
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_CAPABILITIES_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_DPB_SLOT_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_EMIT_PICTURE_PARAMETERS_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_NALU_SLICE_SEGMENT_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_PROFILE_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_RATE_CONTROL_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_RATE_CONTROL_LAYER_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_REFERENCE_LISTS_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_SESSION_PARAMETERS_ADD_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_SESSION_PARAMETERS_CREATE_INFO_EXT
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VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_H265_VCL_FRAME_INFO_EXT
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Extending VkVideoCodecOperationFlagBitsKHR:
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VK_VIDEO_CODEC_OPERATION_ENCODE_H265_BIT_EXT
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Version History
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Revision 0, 2019-11-14 (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 2, Oct 10 2021 (Srinath Kumarapuram)
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Vulkan Video Encode h.265 update and spec edits
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Revision 3, 2021-12-08 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)
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Rate control updates
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Revision 4, 2022-01-11 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)
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Replace occurrences of “slice” by “slice segment” and rename structures/enums to reflect this.
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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 the now empty VkVideoEncodeH265SessionCreateInfoEXT.
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Revision 7, 2022-03-24 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)
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Add capability flags to report support to disable transform skip and support to use B frame in L1 reference list.
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Revision 8, 2022-07-18 (Daniel Rakos)
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Replace
VkVideoEncodeH265RateControlStructureFlagBitsEXT
bit enum withVkVideoEncodeH265RateControlStructureEXT
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Rename
VkVideoEncodeH265ProfileEXT
toVkVideoEncodeH265ProfileInfoEXT
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Rename
VkVideoEncodeH265ReferenceListsEXT
toVkVideoEncodeH265ReferenceListsInfoEXT
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Rename
VkVideoEncodeH265EmitPictureParametersEXT
toVkVideoEncodeH265EmitPictureParametersInfoEXT
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Rename
VkVideoEncodeH265NaluSliceSegmentEXT
toVkVideoEncodeH265NaluSliceSegmentInfoEXT
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Revision 9, 2022-09-18 (Daniel Rakos)
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Rename
vpsStdCount
,pVpsStd
,spsStdCount
,pSpsStd
,ppsStdCount
, andpPpsStd
tostdVPSCount
,pStdVPSs
,stdSPSCount
,pStdSPSs
,stdPPSCount
, andpStdPPSs
, respectively, inVkVideoEncodeH265SessionParametersAddInfoEXT
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Rename
maxVpsStdCount
,maxSpsStdCount
, andmaxPpsStdCount
tomaxStdVPSCount
,maxStdSPSCount
andmaxStdPPSCount
, respectively, inVkVideoEncodeH265SessionParametersCreateInfoEXT
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See Also
VkVideoEncodeH265CapabilitiesEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265CapabilityFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265CapabilityFlagsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265CtbSizeFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265CtbSizeFlagsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265DpbSlotInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265EmitPictureParametersInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265FrameSizeEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265InputModeFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265InputModeFlagsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265NaluSliceSegmentInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265OutputModeFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265OutputModeFlagsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265ProfileInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265QpEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265RateControlInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265RateControlLayerInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265RateControlStructureEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265ReferenceListsInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265SessionParametersAddInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265SessionParametersCreateInfoEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265TransformBlockSizeFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265TransformBlockSizeFlagsEXT, VkVideoEncodeH265VclFrameInfoEXT
Document Notes
For more information, see the Vulkan Specification
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