Khronos Announces Vulkan Video Decode VP9 Extension

With the release of version 1.4.317 of the Vulkan specification, the set of extensions for video is being expanded once again with the introduction of VP9 decoding. VP9 was among the first royalty-free codecs to gain mass adoption and is still extensively used in video-on-demand and real-time communications.This release completes the currently planned set of decode-related extensions, enabling developers to build platform- and vendor-independent accelerated decoding pipelines for all major modern codecs.