Video Codec SDK

Picture of flowers split between VMAF-CUDA at 1424 FPS and CPU at 1034 FPS.

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

Jan 05, 2024

Video Encoding at 8K60 with Split-Frame Encoding and NVIDIA Ada Lovelace Architecture

Capturing video footage and playing games at 8K resolution with 60 frames per second (FPS) is now possible, thanks to advances in camera and display...

9 MIN READ

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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

Jan 30, 2023

GPU-Accelerated Video Processing with NVIDIA In-Depth Support for Vulkan Video

Vulkan Video gives developers the choice of a powerful new API for accessing video processing acceleration. NVIDIA is expanding its commitment to Vulkan Video...

7 MIN READ

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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

Aug 20, 2021

Encoding for DirectX 12 with NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 11.1

DirectX 12 is a low-level programming API from Microsoft that reduces driver overhead in comparison to its predecessors. DirectX 12 provides more flexibility...

3 MIN READ

Aug 14, 2020

Optimizing Video Memory Usage with the NVDECODE API and NVIDIA Video Codec SDK

The NVIDIA Video Codec SDK consists of GPU hardware-accelerated APIs for the following tasks: Video encoding, with the NVENCODE APIVideo decoding, with NVDECODE...

10 MIN READ

Jul 06, 2020

Introducing NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 10 Presets

All NVIDIA GPUs starting with the Kepler generation support fully accelerated hardware video encoding, and all GPUs starting with the Fermi generation support...

8 MIN READ

Jan 03, 2018

Calibrating Stitched Videos with VRWorks 360 Video SDK

NVIDIA VRWorks 360 is no longer available or supported. For more information about other VRWorks products, see NVIDIA VRWorks Graphics. There are over one...

12 MIN READ