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Open-Source Software Encode/Decode For H.266/VVC Progressing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February, 2023

The H.266 / Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was finalized back in 2020 and while the hardware acceleration is currently limited to a few SoCs with video decode, in the years ahead there will likely be plenty of content encoded in H.266/VVC. The Fraunhofer HHI group in Germany has been working to ensure capable open-source support around this video compression standard with their VVenC encoder and VVdeC decoder...

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FFmpeg Is Ripe For More AVX-512 Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February, 2023

There is already some AVX-512 optimizations for software contained within the FFmpeg multimedia library, but there is room for greater AVX-512 usage especially now with AMD supporting this Advanced Vector Extensions expansion and the latest Intel Xeon CPUs having little associated cost now with AVX-512 use...

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Audacious 4.3 Beta Adds PipeWire Plugin, Restores GTK3 + Ships Mature Qt6 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February, 2023

Longtime Linux users likely have fond memories of the XMMS audio player from two decades ago. For those that enjoyed XMMS back in the day, Audacious continues being updated as a modern fork of XMMS...

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KDE Plasma 5.27 Dubbed "The Best Plasma 5 Version Ever"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February, 2023

KDE developers and users are very excited for Plasma 5.27 that will be making its stable debut next week and also serves as the last major release of the Plasma 5 series...

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LLVM's Fortran Compiler "Flang" Makes Significant Progress But Not Yet Production Ready

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2023

Being worked on actively by a number of stakeholders in recent years has been Flang as a Fortran language front-end to the LLVM compiler stack. While not yet ready for general use, Flang has been making strides as well as showing some promising performance results...

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NVIDIA Publishes DLSS Super Resolution SDK 3.1, Including Updated Linux Demo

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2023

NVIDIA just published to GitHub the DLSS Super Resolution SDK v3.1, their first software development kit update made public since last May when DLSS v2.4 was the latest and greatest...

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systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2023

Systemd 253 is gearing up for release while out today is the third and possibly final release candidate...

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Intel Enables Compute-Based Transcoding To DXT5 With Mesa

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2023

An Intel engineer has implemented compute-based transcoding support to the DXT5 texture format as part of S3TC texture compression. This new path yields a 56% decrease in upload time for a texture upload micro-benchmark when tested on an Intel Ice Lake system with the Iris Gallium3D driver...

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Embree 4.0 Is Running Well On Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February, 2023

This week Intel released Embree 4.0 as the newest version of their open-source, high performance ray-tracing library. While the headline feature is now having support for GPU acceleration with SYCL to take advantage of Arc Graphics and other GPU hardware with SYCL support, for those that have long been using Embree on CPUs its performance has also improved. Here are some initial CPU-based benchmarks I did this week on Embree 4.0 with Intel's new 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors.

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