If this works out, then we won’t need specific hardware dedicated to codecs. Buggy drivers can be bypassed as long as the GPU supports Vulkan.
VAAPI could be eliminated since everything is moving to Vulkan.
We can use GPU acceleration on Nvidia without needing to use special hacks for their drivers.
VMs that can have Vulkan pass through will be able to have hardware enabled acceleration.
Wait, so how does it work right now? Could’ve sworn I’m using hardware H.264 with OBS Studio via FFmpeg VAAPI.
EDIT: Ah, for Vulkan. So what does that do?
If this works out, then we won’t need specific hardware dedicated to codecs. Buggy drivers can be bypassed as long as the GPU supports Vulkan. VAAPI could be eliminated since everything is moving to Vulkan.
We can use GPU acceleration on Nvidia without needing to use special hacks for their drivers.
VMs that can have Vulkan pass through will be able to have hardware enabled acceleration.
There’s quite a few ideas that this could unlock.