Today, LunarG released new Windows, Linux, and macOS SDKs for Vulkan header 1.3.239, with four new video decode extensions and additional updates. These new extensions provide fully accelerated H.264 and H.265 decode and enable “efficient, low-latency, low-overhead use of processing resources.” This SDK also includes Validation Layer support for the new video decode extensions.
Additional SDK Updates for All OSs
- The Vulkan Configurator (vkconfig) has been updated to improve quality and stability.
- Improved validation coverage. VUID validation coverage documentation (validation_error_database.csv and validation_error_database.html) has been updated to represent the validation layer VUID coverage status.
macOS-Specific SDK Updates
- The SDK has been updated to MoltenVK version 1.2.2!
- See the MoltenVK release notes for additional and more detailed update information.
New Extensions Added to All SDKs
- VK_HUAWEI_cluster_culling_shader
- VK_KHR_video_decode_queue
- VK_KHR_video_queue
- VK_KHR_video_decode_h264
- VK_KHR_video_decode_h265
- VK_EXT_surface_maintenance1
- VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1
For More Details
For additional details, please read the Release Notes for Linux, Release Notes for Windows, or Release Notes for macOS.
For More Information about LunarG
LunarG software engineering experts create innovative products and services for open-source and commercial customers using leading-edge 3D graphics and compute technologies, including Vulkan, SPIR-V, OpenXR, and OpenGL. We have strengths in performance analysis and tuning, runtime and tools development, shader optimizations, driver development, and porting engines and applications to Vulkan.
For more information about LunarG, please check out our LunarG.com website.
