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authorMark Thompson <sw@jkqxz.net>2018-01-16 23:25:27 +0000
committerMark Thompson <sw@jkqxz.net>2018-01-16 23:25:27 +0000
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* commit '34c113335b53d83ed343de49741f0823aa1f8cc6': Add support for H.264 and HEVC hardware encoding for AMD GPUs based on AMF SDK Most of this was already present from 9ea6607d294526688ab1b1342cb36ee159683e88, this just applies some minor fixups and adds the general documentation. Merged-by: Mark Thompson <sw@jkqxz.net>
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@@ -225,6 +225,18 @@ 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
+
+FFmpeg 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 FFmpeg with @code{--enable-amf}.
+
@chapter Supported File Formats, Codecs or Features