Prathap Muthana

Prathap Muthana is a senior product manager at NVIDIA focusing on Video Technologies and Data Center products. He has worked at NVIDIA for over 15 years. Prior to his role as a product manager, Prathap worked in the hardware engineering group focusing on signal integrity, power distribution, and substrate designs. He holds a graduate degree in engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Cornell University.
Prathap Muthana

Posts by Prathap Muthana

Models / Libraries / Frameworks Sep 16, 2025

What’s New in PyNvVideoCodec 2.0 for Python GPU-Accelerated Video Processing

Powerful hardware-accelerated video processing in Python just got easier. PyNvVideoCodec is an NVIDIA Python-based library for GPU-accelerated video encoding,... 4 MIN READ
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Content Creation / Rendering Feb 24, 2025

NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.0 Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell

The release of NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.0 marks a significant upgrade, adding support for the latest-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. This version brings a... 10 MIN READ
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Content Creation / Rendering Feb 24, 2025

Enabling Stereoscopic and 3D Views Using MV-HEVC in NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.0

NVIDIA announces the implementation of Multi-View High Efficiency Video Coding (MV-HEVC) encoder in the latest NVIDIA Video Codec SDK release, version 13.0.... 4 MIN READ
Computer Vision / Video Analytics Jun 26, 2024

Improving Video Quality with the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 12.2 for HEVC

NVIDIA Video Codec SDK provides a comprehensive set of APIs for hardware-accelerated video encode and decode on Windows and Linux. The 12.2 release improves... 7 MIN READ
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Computer Vision / Video Analytics Mar 12, 2024

Calculating Video Quality Using NVIDIA GPUs and VMAF-CUDA

Video quality metrics are used to evaluate the fidelity of video content. They provide a consistent quantitative measurement to assess the performance of the... 14 MIN READ
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Content Creation / Rendering May 24, 2023

New Video Creation and Streaming Features Accelerated by the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK

For over a decade, NVIDIA GPUs have been built with dedicated encoders and decoders called NVENC and NVDEC. They have a highly parallelized architecture,... 8 MIN READ