---
title: 'Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-24315-66343a4cb132e01ac4b82a39ae0b8822'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-24315-66343a4cb132e01ac4b82a39ae0b8822.md'
date: '2026-03-16'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - 'vulkan video'
---

#  Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg 

  March 16th at 5:10pm

 In this contributed blog, we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video's fixed-function codec support, extending acceleration to formats and workflows it doesn't cover. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-with-vulkan-compute-shaders-in-ffmpeg)

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