Xilinx Video SDK

The Xilinx Video SDK is a complete software stack allowing users to seamlessly leverage the hardware accelerated features of Xilinx video codec units and enable high-density real-time transcoding for live streaming video service providers, OEMs, and Content Delivery Network (CDNs). Included in the Xilinx Video SDK is pre-compiled version of FFmpeg which integrates key video transcoding plug-ins, enabling simple hardware offloading of compute-intensive workloads using the popular FFmpeg command line interface. The Xilinx Video SDK also provides a C-based application programming interface (API) which facilitates the integration of Xilinx video codec units transcoding capabilities in proprietary frameworks. The Xilinx Video SDK can be leveraged on-premises with Alveo U30 cards and in the cloud with Amazon EC2 VT1 instances.

Note

A patch is required to use version 1.5 of the Xilinx Video SDK on AWS VT1 instances running the latest version of the U30 firmware. See instructions here.

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• Specs and Features

• Release Notes

• Get Started on Premises with Alveo U30

• Get Started in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 VT1

• Tutorials and Examples