Tag: mft

AMD started offering hardware H.265/HEVC video encoder for Media Foundation

It should be good news for those interested in hardware assisted video encoding as AMD extends offering in their new hardware and offers H.265 encoder in already well-known form factor: as a Microsoft Media Foundation Transform “AMDh265Encoder”: # System * Version: 10.0.14393, Windows 10, VER_SUITE_SINGLEUSERTS, VER_NT_WORKSTATION * Product: PRODUCT_PROFESSIONAL […] # Display Devices * AMD…

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MediaFoundationVideoEncoderTransforms: Detecting support for hardware H.264 video encoders

H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10 also known as MPEG-4 AVC) video encoding was never packaged into DirectShow filter by Microsoft and instead they offered Media Foundation Transform (MFT) for the job: H.264 Video Encoder. Further development gave us third party video encoders also packaged as MFTs. Hardware backed MFTs became a part of video hardware drivers…

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Follow up: mixed parallel H.264 encoding, Intel® Quick Sync Video H.264 Encoder MFT + NVIDIA H.264 Encoder MFT

A scenario which was dropped out from previous post is mixed simultaneous encoding using both hardware encoders. Rationale: Intel QSV encoder might exist as a “free” capability of the motherboard (provided with onboard video adapter), The other one might be available with the video adapter intentionally plugged in (including for other reasons, such as to…

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