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DirectX Video Acceleration Specification for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)

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This document contains the specification for support of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) codec within the Microsoft Windows DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) API/DDI context.

  • This document contains the specification for support of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) within the Microsoft Windows DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) API/DDI context. This includes support of the HEVC Main Profile, Main Still Picture profile, and Main 10 profile as important special cases. The document describes high-level design concepts and specific HEVC extensions to DXVA interfaces and data structures of HEVC video decoding. This document specifies only off-host VLD profiles for HEVC video decoding.

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