Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode

Re:Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 e... by my123 on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @10:17AM (#38709566)

> has DirectX support, but doesn't have Vulkan

The Vulkan implementation is still there. You just have to install the redistributable. (see https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home - Runtime)

There's no separate Vulkan-less version of the drivers AFAIK - it's just that the installation program of the manufacturer doesn't run so that there's no opportunity to install the Vulkan runtime.

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Re:Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 e... by slimsag on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @01:06PM (#38711652)

Thanks for the info, cool to know you can install that separately.

My original point remains: out of the box, many Windows users find they have the 'latest drivers' for their graphics card, find that DirectX 12 is working fine on their system, while simultaneously finding Vulkan does not.

For games, it's fine to require users to fix their Vulkan drivers. But if you're making a video player and want to leverage hardware decoding.. I think this is an aspect you should be concerned about and aware of.

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