This was a great read and finally explained why Vulkan Video is good being "just" a layer ontop of existing HW decode/encode. What's interesting, then, is that

This was a great read and finally explained why Vulkan Video is good being "just" a layer ontop of existing HW decode/encode. What's interesting, then, is that Nvidia and others are supporting it. As opposed to rendering where Intel, AMD and Nvidia have their own rendering backend in eg. blender. Nvidia has Optix and CUDA, AMD has HIP, Intel has oneAPI (ironic given this discussion) and Apple has Metal.[0] I guess there isn't much value in being unique for something that's anyways implementing an existing standard (in this case the codecs themselves like h.265). [0]https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/gpu_rendering.html https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/gpu_...