From 34c113335b53d83ed343de49741f0823aa1f8cc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Wootton Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 12:55:53 -0500 Subject: Add support for H.264 and HEVC hardware encoding for AMD GPUs based on AMF SDK Requires AMF headers for at least version 1.4.4.1. Signed-off-by: Mikhail Mironov Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato --- doc/general.texi | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/general.texi') diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index 6e39d5c1a0..0c92761a49 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -237,6 +237,16 @@ The dispatcher is open source and can be downloaded from with the @code{--enable-libmfx} option and @code{pkg-config} needs to be able to locate the dispatcher's @code{.pc} files. +@section AMD VCE + +Libav can use the AMD Advanced Media Framework library for accelerated H.264 and HEVC encoding on VCE enabled hardware under Windows. + +To enable support you must obtain the AMF framework header files from @url{https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF.git}. + +Create an @code{AMF/} directory in the system include path. +Copy the contents of @code{AMF/amf/public/include/} into that directory. +Then Configure Libav with @code{--enable-amf}. + @chapter Supported File Formats and Codecs You can use the @code{-formats} and @code{-codecs} options to have an exhaustive list. -- cgit v1.2.3