VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9

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Last Modified Date

2025-04-11

IP Status

No known IP claims.

Contributors

• Ahmed Abdelkhalek, AMD
• Benjamin Cheng, AMD
• Lynne Iribarren, Independent
• David Airlie, Red Hat, Inc.
• Ping Liu, Intel
• Srinath Kumarapuram, NVIDIA
• Vassili Nikolaev, NVIDIA
• Tony Zlatinski, NVIDIA
• Konda Raju, NVIDIA
• Daniel Almeida, Collabora
• Nicolas Dufresne, Collabora
• Daniel Rakos, RasterGrid

Description

This extension builds upon the VK_KHR_video_decode_queue extension by adding support for decoding elementary video stream sequences compliant with the VP9 video compression standard.

New Structures

• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:
  • VkPhysicalDeviceVideoDecodeVP9FeaturesKHR
• Extending VkVideoCapabilitiesKHR:
  • VkVideoDecodeVP9CapabilitiesKHR
• Extending VkVideoDecodeInfoKHR:
  • VkVideoDecodeVP9PictureInfoKHR
• Extending VkVideoProfileInfoKHR, VkQueryPoolCreateInfo:
  • VkVideoDecodeVP9ProfileInfoKHR

New Enum Constants

• VK_KHR_VIDEO_DECODE_VP9_EXTENSION_NAME
• VK_KHR_VIDEO_DECODE_VP9_SPEC_VERSION
• VK_MAX_VIDEO_VP9_REFERENCES_PER_FRAME_KHR
• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_VIDEO_DECODE_VP9_FEATURES_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_VP9_CAPABILITIES_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_VP9_PICTURE_INFO_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_DECODE_VP9_PROFILE_INFO_KHR
• Extending VkVideoCodecOperationFlagBitsKHR:
  • VK_VIDEO_CODEC_OPERATION_DECODE_VP9_BIT_KHR

Version History

• Revision 1, 2025-04-11 (Daniel Rakos)
  • Internal revisions