David Airlie's five month old patch-set for supporting H.264/H.265 Vulkan Video encoding has now been merged for this quarter's Mesa 24.1 release. Airlie simply commented in the merge request that hit mainline Git today:
This adds vulkan video encoding to radv for h264/5 under the vulkan extensions.
To enable vulkan video encode, build mesa with -Dvideo_codecs=h264enc,h265enc then run radv with RADV_PERFTEST=video_encode
It was with Vulkan 1.3.274 back in December that the video encode extensions were promoted .
Since last year the Mesa RADV driver has supported H.265/HEVC decoding while now encoding is part of the party too. For this quarter's Mesa 24.1 feature release is also Vulkan Video AV1 decode support .
It's great seeing RADV get squared away with its Vulkan Video API support and now here's to hoping more multimedia/desktop software begins allow using this industry-standard API for video encode/decode.