rocDecode

rocDecode is a high performance video decode SDK for AMD hardware

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
  

• FFMPEG

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

  make test
  

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

• make package

  sudo make test package
  

Samples:

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

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