Synchronization in Vulkan has long been one of its most notorious challenges. The Vulkan Working Group has been steadily working to simplifying the synchronization model. One of the most frequent developer frustrations has been the complexity of managing image layouts, a pain point we’re tackling head-on with the new VK_KHR_unified_image_layouts extension, which aims to eliminate the need for most layout transitions entirely. Learn more: #Vulkan #API #Synchronization image
The slides and recording of last week's Vulkan Video Encode webinar are now available:
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The Khronos Group has announced the release of Vulkan 1.4. Vulkan 1.4 integrates and mandates support for many proven features into its core specification, expanding the functionality that is consistently available to developers, greatly simplifying application development and deployment across multiple platforms. It consolidates numerous previously optional extensions, features, and increased minimum hardware limits. Learn more: image
Today, with the release of Vulkan 1.3.302, Khronos is proud to announce two new Vulkan Video encode extensions. First, the Encode AV1 extension adds AV1 encode functionality to complement its existing AV1 decode support. Additionally, the new Encode Quantization Map extension introduces advanced encoding features for all supported codecs to Vulkan Video developers for the first time. Learn more: #Vulkan #video #processing #AV1 #API #encode image