We are pleased to announce the AMD AMA SDK 1.1.2 release. This release focuses on enabling additional capabilities of the AMD Alveo™ MA35D Media Accelerator including:
- VP9 decode
- 2D GPU to enable compositing, scaling, and mosaicing of one or more inputs
- AI region of interest encoding to improve subjective text or face VQ
You can more completely use the hardware blocks in the Alveo MA35D media accelerator as you target high-density, low-power transcoding solutions.
To learn more please see What's new in 1.1.2 and the 1.1.2 Specifications and features.
OBS plugin
We are also pleased to announce the public availability of an AMD AMA plugin for OBS, enabling Alveo MA35D media acceleration when live streaming. This plugin allows you to use the MA35D for H264, H265, and (as shown below) AV1 hardware accelerated encoding and scaling.
You can take advantage of the high quality, low power/low latency real-time encoders when live streaming to YouTube, Twitch and other popular destinations as demonstrated below.
Please see https://github.com/qualabs/obs-amd-ama-plugin for more details on the OBS plugin including installation directions, download links, and usage details.
NORSK
As seen at NAB 2024, we are happy to collaborate with id3as, the team behind the Norsk video SDK on adding Alveo MA35D accelerator support, to enable you to easily create dynamic live video workflows and deploy them at any scale.
Norsk is an enterprise-grade streaming server that empowers users to build live media workflows with both a low-code SDK and a no-code interface, so it’s suitable for any level of programming and integration expertise as well as any level of workflow complexity. It seamlessly leverages the power of the AMD Alveo MA35D accelerator, offloading encodes/decodes, rescaling, and (coming soon) composition.
For more information about Norsk and how to try it go to https://norsk.video and Blog