rocDecode is a high performance video decode SDK for AMD hardware. 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
ROCm supported hardware
Install ROCm 5.5 or later with --usecase=graphics,rocm --no-32
CMake 3.5 or later
libva-dev 2.7 or later
```
sudo apt install libva-dev
```
libdrm-dev 2.4 or later
```
sudo apt install libdrm-dev
```
Note rocDecode-setup.py script can be used for installing all the dependencies

Build instructions:

Please follow the instructions below to build and install the rocDecode library.

 cd rocDecode
 mkdir build; cd build
 cmake ..
 make -j8
 sudo make install

run tests - Requires FFMPEG install
```
make test
```
NOTE: run tests with verbose option make test ARGS="-VV"
make package
```
sudo make test 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

Build and run sample

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

Samples:

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

Prerequisites

FFMPEG - required to run sample applications & make test
```
sudo apt install ffmpeg
```

Docker:

Docker files to build rocDecode containers are available here

Documentation

Run the steps below to build documentation locally.

Doxygen

doxygen .Doxyfile

Tested configurations

Linux distribution
- Ubuntu - 20.04 / 22.04
ROCm:
- rocm-core - 5.6.1.50601-93
- amdgpu-core - 1:5.6.50601-1649308
FFMPEG - 4.2.7 / 4.4.2-0
libva-dev - 2.7.0-2 / 2.14.0-1
libdrm-dev - 2.4.107 / 2.4.113
rocDecode Setup Script - V1.2