Overview
The AMD Xilinx Video SDK is a complete software stack allowing users to seamlessly leverage the hardware accelerated features of AMD Xilinx video codecs and enable high-density real-time transcoding for live streaming video service providers, OEMs, and Content Delivery Network (CDNs). Included in the AMD Xilinx Video SDK is a pre-compiled version of FFmpeg and GStreamer which integrates key video transcoding plug-ins, enabling simple hardware offloading of compute-intensive workloads (such as video decoding, scaling, and encoding) using these popular tools.
The AMD Xilinx Video SDK also provides a C-based application programming interface (API) which facilitates the integration of AMD-Xilinx video codec transcoding capabilities in proprietary frameworks.
In addition to enhanced OS/kernel support and bug fixes, the 3.0.0 release brings with it ultra low latency (ULL) encoding, dynamic GOP, min/max frame quantization parameter (QP) bounding, and support for updates using package feeds. Visit What's New of its release notes (https://xilinx.github.io/video-sdk/v3.0/release_notes.html#what-s-new ) for the full list of enhancements.
The 3.0 release includes support for the popular GStreamer multimedia framework with the addition of several plugins to access the accelerated video transcoding capabilities.
For Kubernetes deployments, please upgrade the plugin to version 1.1.0 before deploying this 3.0.0 EKS AMI. Refer to https://xilinx.github.io/video-sdk/v3.0/deploying_with_kubernetes.html#deploying-with-kubernetes for more detail.
Highlights
- Adaptive bitrate (ABR) transcoder * Real-time and faster than real-time transcoder * Supports H.264 and HEVC * Up to two channels of 4Kp60 video throughput per card * Subdivide total throughput for a maximum of 48 channels of lower resolution video
- FFmpeg, Gstreamer, and C-based API's * Supports HDR10 and HDR10+ * Dynamic update of encoder parameters
- Ultra low latency (ULL) encoding * Dynamic GOP * Min/max frame quantization parameter (QP) bounding * Updates using package feeds
Details
Typical total price
$0.65/hour
Pricing
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
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vt1.3xlarge Recommended | $0.00 | $0.65 | $0.65 |
vt1.6xlarge | $0.00 | $1.30 | $1.30 |
vt1.24xlarge | $0.00 | $5.20 | $5.20 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes | $0.08/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Refer to the GitHub repository for details: https://xilinx.github.io/video-sdk/#
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Submit issues via the AMD Xilinx Video SDK Github repository for support. https://github.com/Xilinx/video-sdk/issues
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