The AMD Xilinx Video SDK is a complete software stack allowing users to seamlessly leverage the hardware accelerated features of AMD Xilinx video codecs such as the ones available on Amazon EC2 VT1 instances and AWS Elastic Container Service.
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 3.0.0 release includes support for the popular GStreamer multimedia framework with the addition of several plugins to access the accelerated video transcoding capabilities.
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
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This software is free, so you pay only for the hourly cost of the VT1 instance you run it on. The three dimensions represent three VT1 instance sizes: vt1.3xlarge, vt1.6xlarge, and vt1.24xlarge. Each is billed per hour of usage. You pick the instance size that matches your video transcoding workload. The software stack enables hardware-accelerated video transcoding on these instances. There are no tiers or feature differences between the dimensions. Pricing scales with the size and number of instances you run and the hours they stay active.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What do the three VT1 instance sizes mean for my hourly bill?
Each dimension maps to one VT1 instance size: vt1.3xlarge, vt1.6xlarge, or vt1.24xlarge. Larger sizes carry more video transcoding capacity per instance. You are billed per hour for the size you launch. The software itself adds no charge, so your bill reflects the instance size and hours run.
Am I charged when a VT1 instance is stopped or idle?
The software is free, so it adds no hourly charge. Hourly billing tracks running instance time only. A fully stopped instance does not accrue instance-hour charges. Stopped instances may still incur underlying AWS storage fees for attached volumes, but no software cost applies.
What runs on these instances, and can I use the software outside AWS?
The software stack enables hardware-accelerated video decoding, scaling, and encoding on VT1 instances. It includes pre-compiled transcoding tools and a C-based API. You can also run it on-premises with compatible accelerator cards. On AWS, you pay only the hourly VT1 instance cost.
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The AMD Xilinx Video SDK is a complete software stack allowing users to seamlessly leverage the hardware accelerated features of AMD Xilinx video codecs such as the ones available on Amazon EC2 VT1 instances.
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