VCEEnc

by rigaya

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This software is meant to investigate performance and image quality of HW encoder (VCE) of AMD. There are 2 types of software developed, one is command line version that runs independently, and the nother is a output plug-in of Aviutl.

VCEEncC.exe … Command line version supporting transcoding.
VCEEnc.auo … Output plugin for Aviutl.

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Install

Install instructions for Windows and Linux.

Build

Build instructions for Windows and Linux

System Requirements

Windows

Windows 10/11 (x86 / x64)
Aviutl 1.00 or later (VCEEnc.auo)
Hardware which supports VCE
AMD GPU Radeon HD 7xxx or later
AMD APU Trinity (2nd Gen) or later

Linux

Debian/Ubuntu (VCEEncC)
It may be possible to run on other distributions (not tested).

VCEEnc	required graphics driver version
VCEEnc 3.00 or later	AMD driver 17.1.1 (16.50.2611) or later
VCEEnc 5.00 or later	AMD driver 19.7.1 or later
VCEEnc 5.01 or later	AMD driver 19.12.1 or later
VCEEnc 5.02 or later	AMD driver 20.2.1 or later
VCEEnc 6.09 or later	AMD driver 20.11.2 or later
VCEEnc 6.13 or later	AMD driver 21.6.1 or later
VCEEnc 6.17 or later	AMD driver 21.12.1 or later
VCEEnc 7.00 or later	AMD driver 22.3.1 or later
VCEEnc 7.03 or later	AMD driver 22.7.1 or later
VCEEnc 7.15 or later	AMD driver 22.12.1 or later
VCEEnc 8.07 or later	AMD driver 23.1.2 or later
VCEEnc 8.17 or later	AMD driver 23.5.2 or later

Usage and options of VCEEncC

Option list and details of VCEEncC

Precautions for using VCEEnc

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

Main usable functions

Common to VCEEnc / VCEEncC

• Encoding using VCE/VCN
  • H.264/AVC
  • HEVC
  • AV1
• Each encode mode of VCE
  • CQP (fixed quantization)
  • CBR (Constant bitrate)
  • VBR (Variable bitrate)
• supports setting of codec profile & level, SAR, colormatrix, maxbitrate, GOP len, etc...

VCEEncC

• Supports hw decoding
  • H.264 / AVC
  • HEVC
  • MPEG2
  • VP9
  • VC-1
• Supports various formats such as avs, vpy, y4m, and raw
• Supports demux/muxing using libavformat
• Supports decode using libavcodec
• Calculation of ssim/psnr of the encode
• High performance filtering (VPP, Video Pre-Processing)
  • GPU filtering by OpenCL
    • deinterlacer
      • afs (Automatic field shift)
      • nnedi
    • colorspace conversion
      • hdr2sdr
    • subburn
    • resize
      • spline16, spline36, spline64
      • lanczos2, lanczos3, lanczos4
    • transpose / rotate / flip
    • padding
    • deband
    • noise reduction
      • knn (K-nearest neighbor)
      • pmd (modified pmd method)
    • edge / detail enhancement
      • unsharp
      • edgelevel (edge ​​level adjustment)
      • warpsharp

VCEEnc.auo (Aviutl plugin)

• Audio encoding
• Mux audio and chapter
• afs (Automatic field shift) support

Supported HW Encode Codecs

GPU Arch	GPU Gen	dGPU	iGPU	VCE/VCN Gen	H.264	HEVC	AV1
GCN	Southern/Sea Islands	HD7xxx, RX2xx		VCE1, VCE2	8bit
	Volcanic Islands	RX3xx		VCE3	8bit
	Polaris	RX4xx, RX5xx		VCE3.4	8bit	8bit
	Vega	Vega		VCE4	8bit	8bit
	Vega		RyzenAPU(2xxx-3xxx)	VCN1	8bit	8bit
	Vega		RyzenAPU(4xxx-5xxx)	VCN2	8bit	10bit
RDNA	RDNA1	RX5xxx		VCN2	8bit	10bit
	RDNA2	RX6xxx*	Zen4 APU	VCN3	8bit	10bit
	RDNA3	RX7xxx		VCN4	8bit	10bit	10bit

• RX 6400 and RX 6500 XT not supported, due to lack of HW Encoder on these cards!

Auto GPU selection in multi GPU envinronment

VCEEncC will automatically select a GPU depending on the options used, when there are multiple GPUs available which support VCE/VCN. --device option can be used to specify on which GPU to run manually.

1. Select GPU which supports...
   Items below will be checked whether the GPU supports it or not

• Codec, Profile, Level
• Additionally, below items will be checked if specified
  • 10bit depth encoding
  • HW decode

2. Prefer GPU which supports...

• B frame support

3. If there are multiple GPUs which suports all the items checked in 1. and 2., GPU below will be prefered.

• GPU which has low Video Engine(VE) utilization
• GPU which has low GPU core utilization

The purpose of selecting GPU with lower VE/GPU ulitization is to assign tasks to mulitple GPUs and improve the throughput of the tasks.

Please note that VE and GPU ulitization are check at the initialization pahse of the app, and there are delays in values taken. Therefore, it is likely that the multiple tasks started at the same time to run on the same GPU, and divided into multiple GPUs, even if the options are supported in every GPUs.

VCEEnc source code

• MIT license.
• This program is based on samples of AMD Media Framework, and contains source code provided by AMD Media Framework. For these licenses, please see the header part of the corresponding source and VCEEnc_license.txt.
• This software depends on ffmpeg, tinyxml2, dtl, clRNG, ttmath & Caption2Ass. For these licenses, please see the header part of the corresponding source and VCEEnc_license.txt.

About source code

Windows ... VC build

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