H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg

The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged.

Last month saw a lot of commits around Vulkan Video encode for FFmpeg while merged yesterday were the H.264 and H.265/HEVC specific encode bits. That complements the Vulkan Video decode bits in FFmpeg 6.1.

This commit adds the H.264 Vulkan hardware encoder support to FFmpeg that is at feature-parity to the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support for video encode. This commit added in the H.265/HEVC Vulkan hardware encoder support with full handling of the spec with I, P, and B frames.

It's great seeing FFmpeg continuing to lead the way around embracing the Vulkan Video API for cross-platform GPU video acceleration for both encode and decode.