Registered Extension Number

41

Revision

5

Extension and Version Dependencies

  • Requires support for Vulkan 1.0

  • Requires VK_KHR_video_decode_queue 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.

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Last Modified Date

2022-03-31

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Contributors

  • Ahmed Abdelkhalek, AMD

  • Chunbo Chen, Intel

  • HoHin Lau, AMD

  • Jake Beju, AMD

  • Peter Fang, AMD

  • Ping Liu, Intel

  • Srinath Kumarapuram, NVIDIA

  • Tony Zlatinski, NVIDIA

Description

This extension builds upon the VK_KHR_video_decode_queue extension by adding support for decoding elementary video stream sequences compliant with the H.264/AVC video compression standard.

New Structures

New Enums

New Bitmasks

New Enum Constants

  • VK_EXT_VIDEO_DECODE_H264_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_EXT_VIDEO_DECODE_H264_SPEC_VERSION

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_H264_CAPABILITIES_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_H264_DPB_SLOT_INFO_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_H264_MVC_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_H264_PICTURE_INFO_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_H264_PROFILE_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_H264_SESSION_PARAMETERS_ADD_INFO_EXT

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_H264_SESSION_PARAMETERS_CREATE_INFO_EXT

  • Extending VkVideoCodecOperationFlagBitsKHR:

    • VK_VIDEO_CODEC_OPERATION_DECODE_H264_BIT_EXT

Version History

  • Revision 1, 2018-6-11 (Peter Fang)

    • Initial draft

  • Revision 2, March 29 2021 (Tony Zlatinski)

    • Spec and API Updates

  • Revision 3, August 1 2021 (Srinath Kumarapuram)

    • Rename VkVideoDecodeH264FieldLayoutFlagsEXT to VkVideoDecodeH264PictureLayoutFlagsEXT, VkVideoDecodeH264FieldLayoutFlagBitsEXT to VkVideoDecodeH264PictureLayoutFlagBitsEXT (along with the names of enumerants it defines), and VkVideoDecodeH264ProfileEXT.fieldLayout to VkVideoDecodeH264ProfileEXT.pictureLayout, following Vulkan naming conventions.

  • Revision 4, 2022-03-16 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)

    • Relocate Std header version reporting/requesting from this extension to VK_KHR_video_queue extension.

    • Remove the now empty VkVideoDecodeH264SessionCreateInfoEXT.

  • Revision 5, 2022-03-31 (Ahmed Abdelkhalek)

    • Use type StdVideoH264Level for VkVideoDecodeH264Capabilities.maxLevel

See Also

VkVideoDecodeH264CapabilitiesEXT, VkVideoDecodeH264DpbSlotInfoEXT, VkVideoDecodeH264MvcEXT, VkVideoDecodeH264PictureInfoEXT, VkVideoDecodeH264PictureLayoutFlagBitsEXT, VkVideoDecodeH264PictureLayoutFlagsEXT, VkVideoDecodeH264ProfileEXT, VkVideoDecodeH264SessionParametersAddInfoEXT, VkVideoDecodeH264SessionParametersCreateInfoEXT

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

This page is a generated document. Fixes and changes should be made to the generator scripts, not directly.

Copyright

Copyright 2014-2022 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0