C Specification

Bits which can be set in VkVideoSessionCreateInfoKHR::flags are:

// Provided by VK_KHR_video_queue
typedef enum VkVideoSessionCreateFlagBitsKHR {
    VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_PROTECTED_CONTENT_BIT_KHR = 0x00000001,
  // Provided by VK_KHR_video_encode_queue
    VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_ALLOW_ENCODE_PARAMETER_OPTIMIZATIONS_BIT_KHR = 0x00000002,
  // Provided by VK_KHR_video_maintenance1
    VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_INLINE_QUERIES_BIT_KHR = 0x00000004,
  // Provided by VK_KHR_video_encode_quantization_map
    VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_ALLOW_ENCODE_QUANTIZATION_DELTA_MAP_BIT_KHR = 0x00000008,
  // Provided by VK_KHR_video_encode_quantization_map
    VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_ALLOW_ENCODE_EMPHASIS_MAP_BIT_KHR = 0x00000010,
} VkVideoSessionCreateFlagBitsKHR;

Description

  • VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_PROTECTED_CONTENT_BIT_KHR specifies that the video session uses protected video content.

  • VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_ALLOW_ENCODE_PARAMETER_OPTIMIZATIONS_BIT_KHR specifies that the implementation is allowed to override video session parameters and other codec-specific encoding parameters to optimize video encode operations based on the use case information specified in the video profile and the used video encode quality level.

    Note

    Not specifying VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_ALLOW_ENCODE_PARAMETER_OPTIMIZATIONS_BIT_KHR does not guarantee that the implementation will not do any codec-specific parameter overrides, as certain overrides are necessary for the correct operation of the video encoder implementation due to limitations to the available encoding tools on that implementation. This flag, however, enables the implementation to apply further optimizing overrides.

  • VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_INLINE_QUERIES_BIT_KHR specifies that queries within video coding scopes using the created video session are executed inline with video coding operations.

  • VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_ALLOW_ENCODE_QUANTIZATION_DELTA_MAP_BIT_KHR specifies that the video session can be used to encode pictures with quantization delta maps.

  • VK_VIDEO_SESSION_CREATE_ALLOW_ENCODE_EMPHASIS_MAP_BIT_KHR specifies that the video session can be used to encode pictures with emphasis maps.

See Also

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

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