Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration , FFV1 decode , and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion.

FFmpeg developer Lynne "Cyanreg" implemented a 360 degree video conversion implementation powered by Vulkan compute for more efficient handling than just CPU-based conversion. Currently this new lavfi/v360 capability implements a "sufficient subset" of the most popular 360 degree video formats.

This filter allows applying fisheye, dual fisheye, and other 360 degree projection of video content.

More details on this Vulkan-based 360 degree video conversion support merged today to FFmpeg can be found via this commit .