Video Acceleration API (VA-API) is an open source application programming interface that allows applications such as VLC media player or GStreamer to use...
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X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC), is an extension of the X video extension (Xv) for the X Window System. The XvMC API allows video programs to offload...
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encoded video. XvBA is a direct competitor to NVIDIA's Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) and Intel's Video Acceleration API (VA API). In...
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DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be...
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December 2022. "VA-API 1.7.3 changelog". GitHub. 12 October 2021. "except 4:2:2 and 4:4:4". "Hardware video acceleration - ArchWiki (VA-API drivers comparison...
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VDPAU (redirect from Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix)
Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) is a royalty-free application programming interface (API) as well as its implementation as free and...
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Graphics processing unit (redirect from Video acceleration)
(DxVA) API for Microsoft Windows operating-system. Mantle (API) Vulkan (API) Video Acceleration API (VA API) VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for...
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Mesa (computer graphics) (category Rendering APIs available on Linux)
most common API for Linux, used by AMD and Intel Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) – used by Nvidia DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) –...
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Nvidia optimized media API for Linux/UNIX operating-systems Video Acceleration API (VA API) – an alternative video acceleration API for Linux/UNIX operating-system...
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Instruments. Video Acceleration API (VA API) VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA) X-Video Motion Compensation...
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Distributed Codec Engine (category Video acceleration APIs available on Linux)
alternative video acceleration API for Linux/UNIX operating-system. VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA)...
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Video4Linux (redirect from Video for linux)
rendering and video acceleration Mesa 3D – implements video acceleration APIs "An Introduction to the Video4Linux Framework: How to write a video capture driver"...
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graphics library and the X.Org Server Poppler, a PDF rendering library Video Acceleration API Wayland, a protocol to replace X11; features: no tearing, lag, redrawing...
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open-source ARM version of the oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) for their Fugaku CPU. Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL) is a new technology...
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Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix, from NVIDIA Video Acceleration API (VA API) – an alternative video acceleration API to XvBA for Linux/UNIX operating-system...
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hardware acceleration: BRender by argonaut software These libraries are designed explicitly to abstract 3D graphics hardware for CAD and video games, with...
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Vulkan (redirect from Vulkan API)
analogous to the OptiX and DirectX Raytracing APIs. No such functionality is exposed in OpenGL. Video acceleration for decoding and encoding, such as H.264...
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Deinterlacing (category Video processing)
graphics card and video acceleration API to do proper deinterlacing. The European Broadcasting Union argued against the use of interlaced video in production...
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Because DirectDraw is a 2D API, it contains commands for 2D rendering and although it does not support 3D hardware acceleration, versions through to 7.0...
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Broadcom Crystal HD (category Video acceleration)
License (LGPL), version 2.1 Crystal HD can be accessed through the Video Acceleration API interface via an experimental driver (however, it cannot be recovered...
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EXA (redirect from Eyecandy Acceleration Architecture)
between 2D and 3D acceleration. 2D acceleration was provided by the venerable XFree86 Acceleration Architecture, XAA, which made the video card's 2D hardware...
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cores on Turing and successors) on the architectures for ray-tracing acceleration. In March 2019, Nvidia announced that selected GTX 10 series (Pascal)...
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NVENC (category Video acceleration)
were added with the release of Nvidia Video Codec SDK 7. These features rely on CUDA cores for hardware acceleration. SDK 7 supports two forms of adaptive...
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Caustic Graphics (section CausticGL/OpenRL API)
second. The OpenRL API (previously called CausticGL) was derived from OpenGL ES 2.0 and added a series of features to both the host API and GLSL required...
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RIVA 128 (section Drivers and APIs)
integrate 3D acceleration in addition to traditional 2D and video acceleration. Its name is an acronym for Real-time Interactive Video and Animation...
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OpenGL (category 3D graphics APIs)
programming interface (API) for drawing 2D and 3D graphics. It is designed to be implemented mostly or entirely using hardware acceleration such as a GPU, although...
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VC-1 (redirect from Video Codec 1)
video cards manufactured since 2006 support some level of GPU-accelerated VC-1 decoding on the Windows platform via DirectX Video Acceleration APIs....
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OpenAL (category Linux APIs)
Vista onward has effectively broken generic hardware acceleration on modern versions of Windows. The API is available on the following platforms and operating...
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X.Org Server (redirect from XFree86 Acceleration Architecture)
form of 2D rendering acceleration. In the past, mode-setting was done by an X-server graphics device driver specific to some video controller hardware...
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Compensation Video Processing Engine PureVideo DirectX Video Acceleration (DxVA) API for Microsoft Windows operating-system. VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation...
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