AMD Hardware Accelerated Transcoding

[RedBaron164 18]

I'm just curious but with regards to the currently (Experimental) support for Hardware Accelerated Transcoding is there any plans to add support for AMD's version of Quick Sync, VCE?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine

[ksullivan86 3]

I want this!!!!!!

[Luke 42079]

Check whether or not ffmpeg supports it. that would be the first step.

[RedBaron164 18]

Check whether or not ffmpeg supports it. that would be the first step.

 

I did some searching but couldn't find anything concrete

[RanmaCanada 495]

https://github.com/sr55/HandBrake/blob/0b95451184bf9df20c6f3fd0ab5e7a085dcb55e0/contrib/ffmpeg/A12-vce.patch

[Luke 42079]

the ffmpeg changelog is usually a good place to look

 

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/master/Changelog

[Maximus Naxsus 20]

I'm just curious but with regards to the currently (Experimental) support for Hardware Accelerated Transcoding is there any plans to add support for AMD's version of Quick Sync, VCE?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine

 

Just did another search regarding ffmpeg and AMD but no joy.

@anybody: Please confirm this

[Happy2Play 9780]

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro#AMDVCE

[Sireone 6]

There's already an initial commit to ffmpeg several months ago.  Anyway, since it's now open sourced, you can find the info you need here:

 

https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF

[Kekskruemel 0]

@@Luke

 

I would also love to see amd transcode support.

Like posted here there is a ffmpeg with amd support which is also used in other programs.

 

Thx & Greetings

[Tur0k 148]

+1 encoding with AMD hardware supported acceleration in windows would be a benefit IMHO for all the non-intel based users out there that need to support more than 2 transcodes (Nvenc) at a time.

[Waldonnis 148]

I know AMD or someone has been working on contributing this to ffmpeg, but I have yet to see any commits for it in the official repo (rumour has it that a big patch submission should happen quite soon).  Supposedly vaapi works, but Windows support is still MIA or only in a fork.  DS/DXVA2 decoding probably works already, but that wouldn't help the encoding side.  Personally I'd love to know more details about how well-supported the codecs are on Vega's video block.  The only info I can find is very high-level and barely talks about encoding (mentions HEVC 2160p60, but no mention of Main 10 profile support or even stuff like reference and B-frames).  Reviews all focus on gaming entirely or just touch on video playback (decoding), so they're worthless for info.

 

I'm hoping to see some movement on this on the ffmpeg/lav side, since AMD's new cards are out and showing promise for many tasks.  TR/Ryzen performance looks quite nice at their price points as well.  Competition and choices are good for consumers 

[Tur0k 148]

Yep, looks pretty slim picking in the M$ corral to me too. Currently, my main HTPC (windows 10 pro) is hosting my Emby server, 2 out of my 5 media shares, and acts as the HTPC front end in my HT room. It is running on an old AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (six core) CPU. I honestly, had a little trouble with it when I first built it (a firmware patch resolved it). it worked perfectly after that until I added live TV recording to it (though I have worked through 90% of that trouble.

 

Here, I try to alternate my PC builds, in order to encourage a healthy competitive PC market. Since my last build was a fourth gen Intel i7-4790k, I would like to give my next build to AMD when I build my ESX host. Additionally, the ThreadRipper series CPUs will come with 64 PCI-E lanes for expansion components.

 

 

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Edited August 28, 2017 by Tur0k