AMD Advanced Media Acceleration (AMA)¶
The AMD AMA Video SDK is a complete software stack allowing users to seamlessly leverage the hardware accelerated features of AMD video codec units and enable high-density real-time transcoding for live streaming video service providers, OEMs, and Content Delivery Network (CDNs), on compatible cards. Included in the AMD AMA Video SDK is a pre-compiled version of FFmpeg which integrates video transcoding plug-ins for AMD devices, enabling simple hardware acceleration of video decoding, scaling and encoding. The AMD AMA Video SDK also provides a C-based application programming interface (API) which facilitates the integration of AMD video codec units transcoding capabilities in proprietary frameworks.
Cards compatible with AMA SDK offer low power usage, high visual quality at high density. Specifically, MA35D video transcoding card, which is made of 2 Video Processing Units (VPU), is capable of transcoding to and from HEVC, AVC and AV1 formats, at an aggregate rate of up to two 4Kp60, for AVC and HEVC formats, and four 4Kp60 for AV1 format, per VPU.