The AMD Xilinx Video SDK is a complete software stack allowing users to seamlessly leverage the hardware accelerated features of AMD Xilinx video codecs such as the ones available on Amazon EC2 VT1 instances and AWS Elastic Container Service.
The AMD Xilinx Video SDK is a complete software stack allowing users to seamlessly leverage the hardware accelerated features of AMD Xilinx video codecs and enable high-density real-time transcoding for live streaming video service providers, OEMs, and Content Delivery Network (CDNs). Included in the AMD Xilinx Video SDK is a pre-compiled version of FFmpeg and GStreamer which integrates key video transcoding plug-ins, enabling simple hardware offloading of compute-intensive workloads (such as video decoding, scaling, and encoding) using these popular tools.
The AMD Xilinx Video SDK also provides a C-based application programming interface (API) which facilitates the integration of AMD-Xilinx video codec transcoding capabilities in proprietary frameworks.
In addition to enhanced OS/kernel support and bug fixes, the 3.0.0 release brings with it ultra low latency (ULL) encoding, dynamic GOP, min/max frame quantization parameter (QP) bounding, and support for updates using package feeds. Visit What's New of its release notes (https://xilinx.github.io/video-sdk/v3.0/release_notes.html#what-s-new) for the full list of enhancements.
The 3.0.0 release includes support for the popular GStreamer multimedia framework with the addition of several plugins to access the accelerated video transcoding capabilities.
Highlights
Adaptive bitrate (ABR) transcoder * Real-time and faster than real-time transcoder * Supports H.264 and HEVC * Up to two channels of 4Kp60 video throughput per card * Subdivide total throughput for a maximum of 48 channels of lower resolution video
FFmpeg, Gstreamer, and C-based API's * Supports HDR10 and HDR10+ * Dynamic update of encoder parameters
AWS Marketplace now accepts line of credit payments through the PNC Vendor Finance program. This program is available to select AWS customers in the US, excluding NV, NC, ND, TN, & VT.
This software is free to use, so the AWS Marketplace charges no license fee. You only pay the underlying AWS costs for the VT1 instance you run. Pricing is billed by the hour and split across three VT1 instance sizes: vt1.24xlarge, vt1.6xlarge, and vt1.3xlarge. These are not feature tiers. They differ by hardware capacity, letting you match the instance size to your video transcoding workload. Larger sizes handle more concurrent streams. You choose one size per instance and pay for the hours it runs.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What differs between the vt1.24xlarge, vt1.6xlarge, and vt1.3xlarge hourly rates?
Each size maps to a different VT1 hardware capacity. The vt1.24xlarge has the most video codec resources, the vt1.6xlarge sits in the middle, and the vt1.3xlarge has the fewest. You choose one size per instance and pay for the hours it runs. More capacity handles more concurrent transcoding streams.
Am I charged when a VT1 instance is stopped or paused?
The software carries no license fee, so no software charge accrues at any time. Hourly charges reflect the underlying AWS instance cost and apply only while the instance runs. Stopped instances stop accruing compute charges, though AWS storage fees for attached volumes may still apply.
What software is included when I run one of these VT1 instances?
You get the Amazon Linux 2 AMI with the video transcoding software stack and ECS container support. It provides pre-compiled versions of common media processing tools with hardware acceleration plug-ins, plus a C-based API. This lets you run hardware-accelerated video decoding, scaling, and encoding on VT1 instances.
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The AMD Xilinx Video SDK is a complete software stack allowing users to seamlessly leverage the hardware accelerated features of AMD Xilinx video codecs such as the ones available on Amazon EC2 VT1 instances.
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