rocDecode is a high-performance video decode SDK for AMD GPUs. rocDecode API lets developers access the video decoding features available on the GPU.

Supported codecs

• H.265 (HEVC) - 8 bit, and 10 bit

Prerequisites

• Linux distribution

  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • RHEL - 8 / 9
  • SLES - 15-SP4

• ROCm supported hardware

  • NOTE: gfx908 or higher required

• Install ROCm 6.1.0 or later with amdgpu-install with --usecase=multimediasdk,rocm --no-32

  • NOTE: To install rocdecode with minimum requirements follow instructions here

To build from source

• CMake 3.5 or later

sudo apt install cmake

• pkg-config

sudo apt install pkg-config

• FFMPEG runtime and headers - for tests and samples

sudo apt install ffmpeg libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev

NOTE:

• All package installs are shown with the apt package manager, use the appropriate package manager depending on the OS.

• Ubuntu 22.04 - Install libstdc++-12-dev

sudo apt install libstdc++-12-dev

Prerequisites setup script for Linux

For the convenience of the developer, we provide the setup script rocDecode-setup.py which will install all the dependencies required by this project.

Usage:

  python rocDecode-setup.py  --rocm_path [ ROCm Installation Path - optional (default:/opt/rocm)]
                             --developer [ Setup Developer Options - optional (default:ON) [options:ON/OFF]]

NOTE: This script only needs to be executed once.

Build and install instructions

Package install

Install rocDecode runtime, development, and test packages.

• Runtime package - rocdecode only provides the rocdecode library librocdecode.so
• Development package - rocdecode-dev/rocdecode-devel provides the library, header files, and samples
• Test package - rocdecode-test provides ctest to verify installation

NOTE: Package install will auto install all dependencies.

Ubuntu

sudo apt install rocdecode rocdecode-dev rocdecode-test

RHEL

sudo yum install rocdecode rocdecode-devel rocdecode-test

SLES

sudo zypper install rocdecode rocdecode-devel rocdecode-test

Source build and install

git clone https://github.com/ROCm/rocDecode.git
cd rocDecode
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../
make -j8
sudo make install

• run tests - Requires FFMPEG dev install

  make test
  

  NOTE: run tests with verbose option make test ARGS="-VV"

• make package

  sudo make package
  

Verify installation

The installer will copy

• Libraries into /opt/rocm/lib
• Header files into /opt/rocm/include/rocdecode
• Samples folder into /opt/rocm/share/rocdecode
• Documents folder into /opt/rocm/share/doc/rocdecode

NOTE: FFMPEG dev install required to run samples and tests

Verify with sample application

mkdir rocdecode-sample && cd rocdecode-sample
cmake /opt/rocm/share/rocdecode/samples/videoDecode/
make -j8
./videodecode -i /opt/rocm/share/rocdecode/video/AMD_driving_virtual_20-H265.mp4

Verify with rocdecode-test package

The test package will install the ctest module to test the rocdecode. Follow the below steps to test the package install

mkdir rocdecode-test && cd rocdecode-test
cmake /opt/rocm/share/rocdecode/test/
ctest -VV

Samples

The tool provides a few samples to decode videos here. Please refer to the individual folders to build and run the samples.

Sample prerequisites

• FFMPEG - required to run sample applications & make test

  • On Ubuntu

  sudo apt install ffmpeg libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev
  

  • On RHEL/SLES - install ffmpeg development packages manually or use rocDecode-setup.py script

Docker

Docker files to build rocDecode containers are available here

Documentation

Run the steps below to build documentation locally.

• Sphinx

cd docs
pip3 install -r sphinx/requirements.txt
python3 -m sphinx -T -E -b html -d _build/doctrees -D language=en . _build/html

• Doxygen

doxygen .Doxyfile

Tested configurations

• Linux distribution
  • Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
  • RHEL - 8 / 9
  • SLES - 15-SP4
• ROCm:
  • rocm-core - 5.6.1.50601-93
  • amdgpu-core - 1:5.6.50601-1649308
• FFMPEG - 4.2.7 / 4.4.2-0
• rocDecode Setup Script - V1.4