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

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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
Picture of flowers split between VMAF-CUDA at 1424 FPS and CPU at 1034 FPS.
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
Person looking at computer screen that has video editing images.
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
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Content Creation / Rendering Jan 18, 2023

Improving Video Quality and Performance with AV1 and NVIDIA Ada Lovelace Architecture

AV1 is the new gold standard video format, with superior efficiency and quality compared to older H.264 and H.265 formats. It is the most recent royalty-free,... 8 MIN READ