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title: 'Khronos Finalizes Vulkan Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Decode'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-21347-20329a20d0d8f9a82c38d461bcd35992'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-21347-20329a20d0d8f9a82c38d461bcd35992.md'
date: '2022-12-19'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - video
---

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

  December 19th at 2:00pm

 In April 2021, the Vulkan® Working Group at Khronos® released a set of provisional extensions, collectively called ‘Vulkan Video’, for seamlessly integrating hardware-accelerated video compression and decompression into the Vulkan API. Today, Khronos is releasing finalized extensions that incorporate industry feedback and expose core and decode Vulkan Video functionality to provide fully accelerated H.264 and H.265 decode. Khronos will release an ongoing series of Vulkan Video extensions to enable additional codecs and accelerated encode as well as decode. This blog is a general overview of the Vulkan Video architecture and also provides details about the finalized extensions and links to important resources to help you create your first Vulkan Video applications. 

 [ Read More  ](https://khr.io/zp)

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