---
title: 'Khronos Finalizes Vulkan Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/khronos-finalizes-vulkan-video-extensions-for-accelerated-h-264-and-h-265-encode'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/khronos-finalizes-vulkan-video-extensions-for-accelerated-h-264-and-h-265-encode.md'
date: '2023-12-19'
---

#  Khronos Finalizes Vulkan Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode 

  December 19th at 8:59am

 The December 2022 release of Vulkan 1.3.238 saw the finalization of the extensions to decode H.264 and H.265, and today, with the release of Vulkan 1.3.274, Khronos has finalized their counterpart: the extensions to enable encoding of H.264 and H.265 video streams. 

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