Re:Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders i...
by averne_ on Friday March 20, 2026 @02:14PM
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I wrote the Vulkan ProRes backend. The bitstream decoder was implemented from scratch, for a number of reasons.
First, the original code was reverse-engineered, before Apple published an SMPTE document describing the bitstream syntax. Second, I tried my best at optimizing the code for GPU hardware. And finally, I wanted take the learning opportunity :)
First, the original code was reverse-engineered, before Apple published an SMPTE document describing the bitstream syntax. Second, I tried my best at optimizing the code for GPU hardware. And finally, I wanted take the learning opportunity :)
And to answer the parent's question, the shaders are written in pure GLSL. For instance, this is the ProRes bitstream decoder in question: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/src/branch/master/liba...