Overview: Vendor media technologies

Vendor media technologies expose decoding, encoding or processing through particular engines and software interfaces.

Intel, NVIDIA, AMD and Apple organize their media technologies differently. Within one vendor's terminology, an engine and the API that reaches it can also be separate concepts. The grouped pages keep those names attached to the work and interface they describe.

• Intel
  Intel media interfaces connect video engines and processing facilities to supported application operations.

• NVIDIA
  NVIDIA media technologies distinguish video decoding, video encoding and general GPU computation.

• AMD
  AMD media technologies relate API access to distinct generations of video decoding and encoding engines.

• Apple
  Apple media interfaces and engines provide different routes for video coding and picture processing.