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@neatnoise neatnoise commented Jan 19, 2026

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Add Vulkan video encoding support to FFmpeg builds for use with Sunshine's new Vulkan encoder. Requires vulkan-headers and vulkan-icd-loader packages to be installed (or similar on another distros).

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  • Add BUILD_FFMPEG_VULKAN CMake option (default: ON)
  • Add --enable-vulkan flag to FFmpeg configure
  • Enable Vulkan encoders: h264_vulkan, hevc_vulkan, av1_vulkan

This is a dependency for the Sunshine Vulkan encoder PR which adds zero-copy DMA-BUF/EGL encoding on Linux KMS.

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@psyke83 @ReenigneArcher added dependencies, updated the docs

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ReenigneArcher commented Jan 26, 2026

@neatnoise thanks for updating it! There must still be something missing on Linux as the build is failing to find vulkan. It does find it on FreeBSD though.

Edit: actually it worked on FreeBSD amd64, but failed for aarch64.

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