A major step toward enabling high-quality video streaming and recording, Advanced Media Framework (AMF) 1.3 is now open sourced, providing the structure for high quality video recording and live streaming. AMF 1.3 SDK will enable developers of Radeon™ graphics cards to create GPU-based game capture programs for high-quality multimedia streams on their favorite sites.

What is AMF?

Part of our GPUOpen initiative, the Advanced Media Framework (AMF) is an OS- and framework-agnostic multimedia API that enables developers to leverage the power of AMD hardware for real-time processing of multimedia, and building and accelerating complete multimedia applications.

AMF enables developers to take advantage of AMD Video Engines (VCE and UVD), including comprehensive APIs for video encoding, decoding, pre-processing, and post-processing. Accelerated encoding and decoding through CPU offloading optimizes access to AMD devices by using the CPU, GPU, and hardware accelerators for multimedia processing.

AMF 1.3 SDK

With the AMF 1.3 SDK, developers can create high-performance video editing, transcoding, and playback applications, enable enhanced user experience on highly efficient wireless displays and remote desktops. Succeeding Media SDK 1.1, AMF 1.3 has been updated with many new features, including a H.265 codec that enables higher quality video playback up to 4k UHD — at the same bitrate as H.264.

Open source, the new AMF 1.3 SDK is freely downloadable through GPUOpen, and available for any developer to use. The new no-cost AMF enables developers to easily integrate the SDK into their multimedia applications.

The new AMF 1.3 SDK also includes the runtime in the driver package, reducing maintenance for developers on application updates. Applications which leverage open source AMF 1.3 will create a significantly improved GPU-based game capture program that enables high quality encoding of streaming and recording on Radeon™ GPUs.

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Find out more at http://gpuopen.com/gaming-product/advanced-media-framework/

Gurman Singh is a member of Software Marketing at AMD.