Also, the DDI functions are directly available to callers and need not be mediated by the video renderer. The DDIs it shares with DXVA 1.0 are also enhanced with the ability to use hardware acceleration of more operations. As such, the renderer plays a very important role in anchoring the pipeline.ĭXVA 2.0 enhances the implementation of the video pipeline and adds a host of other DDIs, including a Capture DDI for video capture.

The functions exposed by DXVA DDIs are not accessible directly by a DirectShow client, but are supplied as callback functions to the video renderer. The ProcAmp driver module sits between the hardware video renderer and the display driver, and it provides functions for applying post-processing filters on the decompressed video. The ProcAmp DDI is used to accelerate post-processing video. The COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocol) DDI functions allow the pipeline to be secured for DRM-protected media, by specifying encryption functions. The Deinterlacing DDI specifies the callbacks for deinterlacing operations. It also includes three sub-specifications: Deinterlacing DDI, COPP DDI and ProcAmp DDI. The resulting pipeline is usable in a DirectShow-compatible application.ĭXVA specifies the Motion Compensation DDI, which specifies the interfaces for iDCT operations, Huffman coding, motion compensation, alpha blending, inverse quantization, color space conversion and frame-rate conversion operations, among others. The decoded video is handed over to the hardware video renderer, where further video post-processing might be applied to it before being rendered to the device.

If the graphic driver does not implement one or more of the interfaces, it is up to the codec to provide a software fallback for it. If the codec needs to do any of the defined operations, it can use these interfaces to access the hardware-accelerated implementation of these operations. DXVA specifies a set of operations that can be hardware-accelerated and device driver interfaces (DDIs) that the graphic driver can implement to accelerate the operations. The pipeline starts at the CPU which is used for parsing the media stream and conversion to DXVA-compatible structures. The DXVA is used by software video decoders to define a codec-specific pipeline for hardware-accelerated decoding and rendering of the codec. 1.1.1 DXVA2 implementations: native and copy-back.

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