---
title: 'Khronos Announces Vulkan Video Encode Intra-refresh Extension'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23706-1af9c93e2b207a4cbd4aaa86c8a4409c'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23706-1af9c93e2b207a4cbd4aaa86c8a4409c.md'
date: '2025-07-09'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - video
---

#  Khronos Announces Vulkan Video Encode Intra-refresh Extension 

  July 9th at 1:54pm

 Today, with the release of version 1.4.321 of the Vulkan specification, Vulkan Video is once again being expanded for encoding operations with the introduction of the Encode Intra-refresh extension—the second advanced feature extension for encoding, following the earlier release of Encode Quantization Map. Intra-refresh is a valuable tool for enhancing video playback robustness in the presence of network errors. As a result, it is commonly used in broadcast streams, wireless video transmission, VoIP calls, and many other streaming applications. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-announces-vulkan-video-encode-intra-refresh-extension)

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